My story is rather dated and admittedly only one data point, but when I was in my early teens (early 2000s), WYSIWYG editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver were the tools I used to self-learn the basics of web dev. The issue though was that those editors were rather bloated and ran very poorly on the machine my mother had bought me, so it became increasingly favourable to seek something lighter weight and non-WYSIWYG as I learnt more about the languages of the web and grew more competent. stumbled upon BBEdit and used it to a) grow my knowledge of the languages and; b) be able to build things in a more productive manner without the computer grinding to a halt. I think perhaps learning to code through WYSIWYG and then migrating to text editors is a common pathway?
As cliché as it sounds, only you know the true answer to this. Pick a small project and build it using a few different frameworks. This should give you insight into what's most appropriate for your needs.
Uncle Jason's policy is essentially not to advertise products that he doesn't believe in or use himself, so I'm not surprised they have a personal touch!
IIRC there was an incident where an e-cig company was trying to sponsor TWiST, but JCal politely declined.
> Sublime is dead. No one is actively developing it.
This isn't correct, at least according to the author. This was posted in the ST forum on Mar. 18, 2014 [1]:
"From the Sublime office: We are not selling to Github, we are not stopping development of Sublime. As noted by another poster, this is effectively a one man band (I'm here to answer sales questions, process your refunds and get the mail so Jon doesn't have to). The past few months of silence on the development front have been a combination of boring back end work (taxes, new payment platform) as well as a break for the man driving this whole operation. No, we don't currently have a loud internet presence, which is can be an understandable cause for concern-something we intend to address once we move into the production version of 3. There is a vision for continued growth and development, there is momentum behind Sublime Text; it is not dead, just slow.
I'm happy to field any specific questions you might have about the Sublime's future: [email protected]."
Can't you modify the number of grid columns in Bootstrap? I use Foundation 5, and there is an option within settings.scss which allows you to change the default 12 column grid, eg:
Further to Houshalter's point: the President & Chief Scientist of Kaggle addresses this specific issue and explains the Public/Private Leaderboard system in this webcast: http://youtu.be/GrugzF0-V3I
It is somewhat akin to spec work within the design field[1], in that only the top performers make money and everyone else goes home empty handed despite their hours of work. However, I've noticed that most of the near-winners tend to open source and share their solutions on GitHub, so one could argue that it helps the community (unlike say 99 designs, on which non winning entries are basically worthless).
Thanks for sharing. Do you know whether that 50% fee is fixed, or is it variable based on the amount of prize money you put up? That does seem like a ridiculously high figure!
OP here - thanks for the feedback. The post was intentionally designed to be quite light and introductory (specifically for those not familiar with Kaggle), but fear not, in the future I will be covering the practical aspects of data science (I'm presently working on a tutorial piece that explain how to use http://julialang.org - which is one of my favourite new languages for data science). Stay tuned.
To contrast, I absolutely love this video where Neil deGrasse Tyson provides an explanation as to why he doesn't feel small in the Universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU
This is exactly why I love SocketStream. The extensibility of it is great. I can use one of the several thousand existing node modules/libraries and install them easily via NPM. In addition, development has been active and Owen (the lead dev) is extremely responsive to any issues on the GitHub repo.