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FreeCodeCamp.com is showing that there's a hunger for learning JavaScript for people in their 20s and older, but what about teaching people (in the same age range?) other skills?

I also mention FCC because they've made it so you can add your content instead of their JS content, and poof, you have a learning platform!

Well-written, and hopefully captures the imagination of soon-to-be coders!

I'd love to hear a follow-up post once she starts getting paid work so she can tell us exactly how she did it.

I'm Steve, and I'm a healthy eater and cheapskate.

From 2002 to 2005 I researched nutrition and supplements _a lot_. Long story short, what's cheap, healthy, "pleasurable" (non-sexually), and fast/easy to make? Vegetables, whole-wheat bread or brown rice (pasta), an assortment of nuts, a protein shake (protein powder, milk, flax seed powder, spinach, and blueberries), and vitamins/supplements (multivitamin, fish oil, others I take for brain health/performance).

Works great! And when I eat out (again non-sexually) I have chicken breast, turkey, or fish.

Awesome project! Is being near Montreal necessary given that this is a software project? What about remote collaboration?

From the title, I was hoping to read a crushing indictment of web developers for mostly creating useless crap.

Sadly, it's more like the opposite: a shiny button inviting us all to view useless crap.

Tent's success is far from certain, of course. Sounds like you're convinced that just because something might not happen, it almost certainly will not. Also a fallacy.

I really appreciate what StatusNet is doing, but I've found that it's just not useful enough to... use. It's Twitter but more free and with far fewer users. That's rather different from Diaspora and Tent.io's visions.

FYI: Today, Tent.is -- the first implementation of Tent.io, a protocol for fully decentralized social networking -- went from 0 users to 2000. In a day.

...And since it's free, I bet it'll grow MUCH faster than App.net which, after TONS of media coverage and endorsements from the likes of not just Scobleizer, but The Washington Post and even fucking CNN(!), got just ~12,000 people to sign up by the deadline.

Specific sites aside, I'm glad that people are actively creating alternatives to the centralized, corporatized, developer-unfriendly services that currently dominate the landscape.

I write Python and Go code every week, and have since I started using Go almost 2 years ago.

I appreciate Go because I'm working hard to become an engineer who builds robust software rather than a sloppy hacker that throws scripts together. One significant difference between the former and the latter is carefully handling errors versus not.

Python's error handling seems much more succinct only because most of us don't both handling errors at all! Every other line throws many exceptions, but we ignore this for convenience. (Those ugly "except ___:" statements ruin our oh-so-cool one-liners!)

Bottom line:

When I feel like having fun making something simple and getting it done _fast_, I use Python.

When I feel like building something that _needs_ to work -- especially anything that does more than one thing at a time, or should use all cores efficiently -- I use Go. And yes, that means taking error handling seriously.

1. Meetup Groups; 2. Startup Weekend; 3. Hackerspaces

Any Meetups related to the web -- events for developers, UI/UX, and biz meetups -- are great for networking. I'm a developer who gets emails from designers who want to talk on a big job that requires custom dev. You should be able to do similar -- find people who want to take on a job that requires more design or marketing than they can (or want to) personally do. (This may be a good way to meet people directly who need your services, not just people who will give you referrals.)

Attending a Startup Weekend hosted in your town is a _fantastic_ way to meet people, especially if you can talk shop with them like many HNers can.

It's quite the commitment, but co-founding a hackerspace has worked wonders for me. I meet a lot of smart people -- many of whom aren't web developers -- who then refer people they know to me.

If you're a designer or biz person, wander into a hackerspace near you.

Creating and using 100,000 goroutines in < 1 second is freakin' sweet indeed.

Release early, release often :-). We decided to launch this as soon as we thought other people could benefit from it. That day is today.

As stated in the docs, the server-side auto-deploy code assumes you're running Ubuntu. Removing such assumptions is a high priority (see TODO.md).

That said, the whole "start a new pre-configured Django project with lots of stuff pre-configured" thing is ready now and only assumes you're on a Unixy OS.