awesome!

@kaiwren thanx for shoutout, looking forward to your feedback

I think you are right, and that makes me sad.

There's much more to life than working a job. Work-life balance can be tricky, especially if you seek fulfillment, it may take years/decades to find what you seek, be fulfilled and then contribute from your own source.

This is a healthy thing, and one would do well to pay attention and focus on what matters.

We already support teaching most of these - if you know anyone that would like to create courseware around any of these topics please let us know.

Our courseware marketplace is still in a private alpha, but we are actively soliciting awesome hackers that would like to teach online.

We're building our way up to this. For now, we are focussing on helping more people teach how to think in a particular language.

We'll get to the rest fairly quickly, though that would likely be in the form of screencasts.

PS: I'm on the CodeMonk team, the folks that are behind PythonMonk.com and RubyMonk.com

It is. It's what Matz tweeted after we launched RubyMonk at RubyConf in New Orleans last year. Here's the original tweet he made: https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/126447696478347265

Wow. Thank you! That's quite a complement, and I'm grateful.

I should point out that much of what I say - or write about - are from conversations with my colleagues. I just happen to be the most vocal among us :)

It'll be a while yet, but there's a reason we've bought that domain :)

No worries, jfaucett. As a bootstrapped startup with no investors and no connections, we need all the PR we can get :)

So thank you for posting this!

It's a known issue with the js code editor we're using and is something that we need to fix.

Thanks for the heads up!

I'm not sure (and I'm not complaining about the publicity :)) - but this is the third time we've made it to HN. Yes, RubyMonk was launched in August 2011, so we've been around for over a year.