I'm a newish dad and full stack dev. I've found that what's been most effective for me, aside from spending (admittedly, far too much) time coding in the evenings before sleep, is making a concerted effort to share whole-day responsibility of the kids on weekends. I'll take the kids on one day, my wife will take the kids on another day. We trade off during the week too so we can both have large stretches of uninterrupted time.

Exercise (and for me, meditation) are important balancers too - don't neglect them for the sake of coding, you'll find that you just get burnt out.

Although I don't usually get full-days this has become really helpful for me. 4 or 6 hours of time to do something is incredibly productive for me now.

Isn't what you're describing essentially the ActiveRecord pattern? An object that has the internal capabilities to perform the various CRUD operations direct to a persistence store and only operates on itself?

EDIT: Also, from an architectural standpoint, do you not think that having SQL-speaking objects written in this fashion is too tightly coupled? What do you think of a "Clean Architecture" implementation with respect to your idea?

I'm hoping this was written satirically...

I just don't know what the thing does. The video says nussing. NUSSING!

Don't companies have to get to at least Enron-level before they start making vapid promo pieces like this?

People (in my experience, anyways) would prefer a product that is fast and gets the job done without fault or error over a product that looks really awesome but performs poorly and is buggy.

In other words you can put as much makeup on the pig as you like, but in the end it's still a pig.

Try telling that to one of my former bosses though ;)

Thanks. That's my thought as well, and my priority right now is to get a working proof-of-concept and see if anyone actually uses it.

It is awesome. I've tried getting through it in it's totality 6 times to no avail, but i still await try number 7...

It is a great read.

I agree that you don't have to learn anything about mathematics to become a programmer - that's how I started.

I will say that having learned relatively advanced math since my start has proven to open interesting new doors and paths of thought to me.

You don't have to learn it, but it does make a difference/change your perspective if you do.

Touch typing comes along naturally as you code and is a skill best suited to letter writing than code forging.

I hear ya... from what I can see it looks like it would be great for rapid prototyping, even big systems... however why anyone would go with a JS-backed framework for a serious application is beyond me - it's just not ready as a language (and a framework)

I'm sorry but those look like toys. I'm with buddy here, could you please give me an example that is more complex in nature?

I finished the first one in 20 minutes and got bored with the second one.

I'm happy I work for the company I do. If this is what they want people to do all day, geez.

That's pretty great, In what language? can you post the code? What company you work for?

Don't want to ruin the surprise for everyone else. 'Sides it's just data processing. It's not hard to figure it out - it's quite logical.

Oh... my edit was I forgot the language. I did it in Ruby.