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I would say if you anticipate any sort of data science and machine learning potential in your application, then you should choose Django (Python) because you'll be in the home turf for this sort of work and you won't have to deal with language context switching... But this is a big if and may not be worth considering.

I love this walkthrough! I've been going through it except with the python 3 interpreter.

> It seems it's mostly the US having an issue in education costs.

Are the prices in the US not relative to the GDP per capita? $3k-$4k USD might be cheap in the US but that money means a lot more in different economies.

Dang it, I should've done that.. I don't post much...

Go into any Electrical Engineering department at any university and you'll find plenty of students with boxes filled with circuit boards and electronics.

Everybody who's played with electronics knows that stuff is brittle and needs to be protected carefully. One wire coming loose renders your entire work obsolete and unlike software, there's no debugger to tell you where you potentially screwed up...

Racial profiling and ignorance at it's finest.

Paypal owns Venmo (via the Braintree acquisition). How is this not cannibalizing on Venmo (whose primary existence is around sending money btwn friends)...?

"You’ll not be eaten by computers any more than folks were eaten by electricity 100 years ago."

Although I enjoyed the post and agree with a lot of it, I disagree with comparing coding skills to humans having access to electricity. In think coding today is like writing was 500 years ago.

In the past you would hire a literate person to read your documents, write you letters, and so forth. Today we hire programmers to help us get the most of our computers. I think reading and writing code will be the new way to make the most of computers in the future. It may not necessarily be through the coding tools and languages we have now.

Then again, I'm no Ray Kurzweil

I guess because I haven't been a regular blogger I haven't looked into getting a list of beta readers. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks! That was great feedback. I never really thought about that phrase beyond the surface level. I guess I'll just get writing!

I'm now going back to my daily writing routine that I've scantily kept up with. But I have some concerns. How does one improve their quality of writing when they are not at school? What I mean is, I can write, write, write and I know after a period of time I'll "better" than I was before. But without having people who scrutinize your work, who critique your grammar, and do all the things that teachers used to do for us in our school years, we might only be able to get so good before we plateau. Am I wrong about this? How do you know you're writing "correctly" if you don't have the feedback mechanism that we had in our schooling days -- aka grades, peer reviews, draft 1, draft 2, etc etc...

I plan on writing for myself and for my blog. But I also know believe that "Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect".

The reason I posted this article to HN, although it does not directly contribute to "programming, startups, entrepreneurship, or business" is because there are many self-help/improvement related posts on HN.

I'm starting to see a trend in HN being a place where people learn more about many things. Maybe HN should not have these kinds of posts, I can't answer for what HN should be. I do think this post can help people be better individuals, and in turn be better programmers, entrepreneurs, business persons, etc.

Hey, thanks for your feedback. I debated with myself about posting this article on HN. Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that, this article shouldn't be seen as appealing exclusively to men but rather this article contributes to the knowledge and self-awareness of individuals and their society. I read content which deals with information that applies to many things that don't apply to me -- e.g. struggles in other countries, womens health issues, K-12 school issues and more --- not for the sake of gaining practical knowledge to implement in my life, but just because I'm curious. I think your statement, "appealing exclusively to men", does not describe every persons personal interests. Sorry if this post offends you.

I agree and I don't consider a "Frozen" box of anything to be "Eating well". It's a blessing to have these things (or is it?). I prefer keeping things organic and fresh when possible.

I agree..

100% agree!

Reading some of the comments here, everyone is talking about the laws being broken and how they need fixing but I don't think any amount of law writing can make up for the moral bankruptcy that has led to these situations and many others.

I think when people seek money they should ask themselves if what they are doing has any bit 'unethicalness'.. But who knows if those investors knew of the stories that made their investments possible.

We have the concept of a carbon footprint - what about an ethical footprint?

I would ask them give you 25-50% up front then the remaining after they have accepted the finished work. I don't know the nature of your work but maybe you can give give them 50% half way through the schedule and they give you the pay for that work, then you give them the remainder when it's done and they pay you back.

I definitely wouldn't trust them with all my work/result and then hope they'll get around to pay me.

Udacity.com - Design of Computer Programs, Web Applications Engineering, Social Network Analysis (algorithms), and many more

Coursera.com - too many courses to list.

Wow that's interesting. I'm glad farmers and others are fighting junk food. Thanks for sharing that!

I am aware of what you have brought up. Racism is very evil indeed.. We should do all that we can to never be racist and work to stop racism... easier said than done

Hey thanks for this feedback! I really was on my C game, maybe even my F game. But to defend myself, I didn't have time at the moment I was writing this comment to go in depth or really focus on making a good argument. But thats not a good excuse. Also my goal wasn't to fully educate people, i just wanted to spark alternative explanations and hope people would figure out the fully story for themselves. But you're right, I was doing it wrong and it will let people attack me for the weak things.. My bad, will up my game next time.

Maybe they don't care to network.. maybe these foreign workers would rather work and do well in their field than suck * to get ahead?

I'm not saying they can't network, anybody can indeed over come that... but some people, and maybe foreigner workers fall into this category, don't care about the popularity contest.. they're just trying to work

Btw, did you know that women don't make as much as men? maybe female workers are... Salary #'s overlook a lot of cultural things that need to be studied...

Can we talk about racism? If you're brown or yellow or black... chances are you don't make the company club (as easily) as well, white people... I've seen it with my own eyes...

If you're not well networked in a corporation, but still work very well, you don't get a higher wage or as much opportunity to a promotion..

non-white ethnicity is a huge network barrier. It's not like people wanna golf with you and then go have a fancy chicken tiki massala or eat injera.

Also, could foreign workers be much more ok with simple lives rather than being ambitious corporate thugs?.. but what's the measure of ambition for higher salary btwn immigrant and native wokers?

If I came from a village I'd settle for any salary. Using salaries for understanding is absolutely pathetic..

That's a really interesting way of reading a programming book. I think one thing on the back of my mind w/my reading style is I want to know as much about the language at any given time so that if I wanted to spin up quick code to do something I don't have to research for it.

I also have this question in the background, if i was at an interview and I had to use this language, am I fluent enough to get around w/access to search things?

I'm going to download mind map and try your way of learning things, I may like it more. It seems to be quicker.

What if they just spent the $5M on developing and working with the people who are in need of poaching for a living...