I appreciate the tip and I did consider it, but chose not to.
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Name: Aby James (എബി ജയിംസ്)
Email: aj@abyjames.com> The most impressive people I know have strong beliefs about the world, which is rare in the general population.
Is this true?
The average person is irrationally immovable on religion, politics and sports.
On-topic:
My philosophy on productivity:
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all ― Peter Drucker
I might or might not be interested in game development now, but I am interested in seeing recommendations of good resources from experienced programmers.
- Little Finger
Deliberately add your to-dos. Before adding a to-do (to asana / on paper) ask this question: Does this to-do get you closer to what you want to accomplish? If no, do not add it. If yes, prioritize first (no two to-dos are equal, choose the ones with the most impact) and then bucket it according to Eisenhower Decision Matrix.
As your morning routine, review your matrix to stay on track.
Join the respective IRCs on freenode, observe the chats and ask specific questions when you don't understand something and Google can't give you good answers.
From the list in the OP, http://webtoolsweekly.com/ and http://tympanus.net/codrops/ looks very very interesting. Thanks for sharing this.
Edit: Unfortunately, codrops doesn't seem to have a subscribe by email option. Oh well.
- Brain Kernighan
And that is what anyone who goes through K&R will do: Reading and writing lots of real programs. A simple program is worth a thousand words!
Which unfortunately the majority of technical books just can't get right. Explain the concepts in 5 full dull pages, and then at the end "Hey, checkout this little snippet of code, which by the way does nothing really interesting, but is here to illustrate what the author was talking about :)"
They just barely mention it in passing, is ambiguous and can be interpreted however they want it to: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=70747, like: "Hey, we are going to monitor every aspect of your life, and keep the records forever, and will be used against you for the interests of various corrupt people; in effect, shutting you up. No big deal :)"
A crunchbanger for 2+ years, recent convert to elementary: http://elementaryos.org , especially if you are looking for 'polish'. Do check it out once its out.
The best places to find these people would be golang-nuts mailing list, /r/golang, #go-nuts irc etc.
http://codingforinterviews.com/
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