| I was drawn to programming, science, technology and science fiction | |
| ever since I was a little kid. I can't say it's because I wanted to | |
| make the world a better place. Not really. I was simply drawn to it | |
| because I was drawn to it. Writing programs was fun. Figuring out how | |
| nature works was fascinating. Science fiction felt like a grand | |
| adventure. | |
| Then I started a software company and poured every ounce of energy | |
| into it. It failed. That hurt, but that part is ok. I made a lot of | |
| mistakes and learned from them. This experience made me much, much |
FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.
(by @andrestaltz)
If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.
This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:
http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer
