capnbuzzword
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- July 6, 2011 (15y ago)
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Wanna-be developer procrastinating on the battle against procrastination.
capnbuzzword@gmail.com
Can bullshit for about 5 minutes in various topics, including but not limited to: Python, C, asm, dynamic programming, AWS and the frustrating limitations of Eucalyptus, C#.
Wants to dive into: - web: Django or other (preferably lighter) WSGI frameworks such as web.py, Flask, Bottle. High-scalability infrastructure underneath, be it nginx, varnish, redis. RabbitMQ and how that ties into Openstack Nova.
- functional programming: OCaml, Erlang, probably too scared of Haskell, although the List Monad wasn't too difficult with the right explanation.
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Would you guys be interested in setting up a "study group", sort of a Procrastinators Anonymous for wanna-be developers? I can't begin to count the books I've skimmed over and not completed a single exercise. LPTHW was…