type this into the browsers console: setInterval(function () { $.post('/node/hello_world/message', { message: 'lol' }); }, 1);
You do know that this results in a DoS attack?
Day 180: Finished
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#72Very inspiring. I think this reinforces the idea that regular practice every day (even if it's short practice) is often better than longer sessions done intermittently or spaced apart more widely (like once a week). Here's another example of the "daily practice" approach from a different domain. A self-taught designer callled Mike Winkelmann has been posting his "everydays" on his website. From his site's description…
I don't think short practice does anything for you when it comes to something like coding. I can't see anyone benefiting from less than a couple of hours of coding
From my own struggle to learn something each day I can tell you that - at least for me - what you said is wrong. There are many "workflows" I tried and am still using, but generally speaking even 15 minutes is enough to gain something valuable. For example, when reading a technical book 15 minutes is enough to read a descriptions of a (sub)problem and to understand high-level concepts used in it's solution (if it's not, you're reading wrong book). I then go to work and think about the details of the solution during the lunch break and commute. Another 15-30 minutes in the evening is enough to check what I thought up with a book and realize where my thinking was incorrect. Then the next day I can code up whatever I was reading about in an hour max, but frequently less (if not, then I was reading wrong book - that is one which I was not prepared to read yet). Then in the next days I can deepen my understanding with 30-45 minutes sessions, and at the end of the week I have the problem internalized and I can move on.
That being said, when I'm not under extreme time constraints, I'm using other approaches. For example, for a whole week I'm reading and gathering bits of information I will need to build something. I have a large file, where I paste links, paragraphs of text from articles and write tiny little snippets of code, either mine or borrowed from somewhere. All this takes an hour or a little more each day (but it's nice that it can be divided into pieces). Then over the weekend I try to make this amorphous mass of data into understanding, in one or a few coding sessions.
There are other ways to make the best use of what little time we get, too. They'd better be, because otherwise we'd be royally screwed as working programmers :)
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#73Congrats!
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#74just as Jeremy implied I am impressed that you can get paid $7702 in 4 weeks on the internet. Read Full Article ............ http://bit.ly/1aL7N9L
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#75Now the next challenge 1 website in 180 days.
Maybe she'll take a job where that will be exactly what she'll get to do!
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#76Congratulations! This must have taken an incredible amount of personal discipline to accomplish. I can't even bring myself to floss for 180 consecutive days!
In fairness, flossing is a lot harder than making web sites... :)
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#77Cool project, and really cool on her actually sticking it out and producing a site a day for 180 days straight.
I am curious about her status/background. Is she in high school, college, out of school? Working a basic or full-time professional job? If she has a full-time job doing something else, it's a hell of a commitment to do something like this on an ongoing basis. I'm not sure how you could work 8+ hours a day, then come home and work on a project like this every day for 6 months straight. Even giving up more sleep than you should and any attempt to have a social life, it'd be tough to pull off.
It's a little different if this is the only thing she has going on right now. Not that it isn't still a great achievement - if I was in a position to do so, I'd be interested in hiring somebody with the intelligence, independence, and drive to complete a project like this with no definite payoff at the end. It may even be better that she can maintain a reasonable work-life balance on a long-term project and not burn out.
I'm working on my own project outside of work, but I sure couldn't spend 8-ish hours on it every day over the course of 6 months while still working at my normal job.
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#78Cool project, and really cool on her actually sticking it out and producing a site a day for 180 days straight. I am curious about her status/background. Is she in high school, college, out of school? Working a basic or full-time professional job? If she has a full-time job doing something else, it's a hell of a commitment to do something like this on an ongoing basis. I'm not sure how you could work 8+ hours a day,…
She doesn't have a job, according to her blog.
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#79Cool project, and really cool on her actually sticking it out and producing a site a day for 180 days straight. I am curious about her status/background. Is she in high school, college, out of school? Working a basic or full-time professional job? If she has a full-time job doing something else, it's a hell of a commitment to do something like this on an ongoing basis. I'm not sure how you could work 8+ hours a day,…
Thanks for the kind words!
Making a website a day takes a lot of time. I've been working on this project full-time and on average worked for 10 hours a day including weekends. I'm looking forward to getting my social life back!