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Also got rejected, but just applying was a valuable experience because of the sort of questions it forced us to tackle.

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financial services, I think!

That's a great point, echoing the part of this post about not being results-oriented. Process-driven is the way to go!

Agreed! I'm also a pianist, but because I started young, I was lucky that my parents and teacher forced to me practice technique all the time. You should check out the Liszt exercises, they will make you strong and fast: http://books.google.com/books/about/Liszt_Technical_Exercise...

With coding, there was no such outside pressure, so until I joined Yipit, I had tons of bad, hacky habits. In order to get to the next level, I had to rebuild from the ground up and learn the fundamentals really well.

Sounds good :)

You're right, there's always some retrospective bias, but I'll never get back those days of reading about PHP, since reading Python accomplished the same and actually was much nicer for a beginner. The truth is, your MVP will evolve and will require you to learn things, new languages and new technologies. The fun is never over. For me it's continuing and im so glad of that.

Absolutely right, there's no end to it. What I hope the reader will achieve is the basic ability to prototype their ideas. That's where I am. In no way do I think I've learned all there is to code. Every day I'm learning precisely how little I know. Heck, I just started learning Lisp and truly enjoying how unfamiliar and powerful functional programming can be.

This is such a nice comment and I'm glad my post could help! Good luck hacking on that project. Let us know how it goes. I'm sure you will learn a ton :)

interesting insights, especially connecting learning with some more immediate and socially valuable reward like a job or enriched personal life.

This is awesome and beautiful!