Fly is soooo easy to use and very very easy to go back to. We went back three times, each ended with multi-hour sev0s w/ horrible status updates. Last outage occurred during our YC interview... now we're on AWS.
Not just fishy -- fake news all the way. There's just not enough capital out of Zimbabwe to dictate a global market cap surge of 10-20 Billion (in the past 3 days)
not too sure about how incorrect the artist's concept is, but we have to remember that Promixa Centauri is a red dward with about 1/10 the radius of our Sun.
Also to the list you might add: p2p live tv (cable tv replacement) - tv networks generate revenue based on ads (subscription fees) p2p goes to solve a lot problems. Comcast is screwing the whole foodchain - now is the time to act.
Here's my advance. Patience is key. Pick a suitable starting language. Webapps - JS/Python. more CS-oriented - Java/C++
I prefer Python personally, but JS looks pretty ubiquitous nowadays.
Know your basics (syntax/MVC/OOP..etc)
Once you're done with the cookie cutter stuff, hack hack hack.
This includes the learning, Coursera, Udacity, and Codeacademy all provide some top level content - you don't have to finish it. Just learn the necessary concepts and run with it.
In my opinion, it is better and easier to learn programming by building something you're passionate about, rather than something that someone else is passionate about.