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humblepatience

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About humblepatience

check me at scottschulthess.com

ruby rails and other stuf

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    Comment #2609874

    yeah, i'm confused about this too

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    Comment #2100007

    I agree, but its more because of the frameworks and libraries than the language

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    Comment #2100000

    The one issue that I have with this, is that it very much depends on what you do at your particular shop. Mainly, we use rails and it takes a while to learn all the individual part…

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    Comment #1755677

    jrockway you have a bad attitude dude

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    Comment #1755295

    I agree, spending hours brushing up on topics that are unlikely to be asked in the actual interview seems like a total waste of time/rookie move, if interesting

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    Ask HN: Tricking your employer into buying you an SSD

    Any ideas on how to do this? I feel like it would speed up vim very much so, we have a very large code bases and a service oriented architecture so I find myself hopping around a l…

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    Comment #1625635

    Funny, Buddhism theorizes that the whole concept of `self` is the ultimate cause of suffering and meditation is one way of releasing yourself from holding on to that idea. That sai…

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    Comment #1605105

    Not really. Here's what there is tho http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia... http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Web-Design-Joel-Sklar/dp/06... Other than that…

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    Comment #1605098

    I find everything except the popup on entry fine. But that caused me to bounce.

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    Comment #1567880

    And besides, who cares if someone else is using tables? You're not the one that has to maintain them.

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    Comment #1567873

    dont use WYSWIG tools, use firebug.

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    Ask HN: Techniques for remembering to find the 15 minute solution

    I'm constantly wishing that I would do a better job at finding the 15 minute solutions to problems instead of the 2 hour to 2 day solutions to problems. By "15 minute solution" I m…

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    Comment #1509133

    i can't hear your post over the sound of you being a longwinded asshole

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    Comment #1503549

    I agree, Being and Time is an impossible read - Betrand Russell is a good start

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    Comment #1480760

    I wish he would say why blueray sucks

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    Comment #1480756

    read my mind, awesome list.

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    Comment #1473819

    I don't see why I'm getting down voted. I've been meditating on and off for years and I wouldn't just jump into a 7 day retreat until I was ready, it's do-able but probably not ple…

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    Comment #1473811

    From what I've heard, it's practicing 10 minutes a day for a while. Going to a session helps too

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    Comment #1473808

    For some reason I think "mock soup"

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    Comment #1472211

    I'm a big fan of `starting out slow.` Jumping into a 7 day retreat is not starting out slow. It's different for everyone what `slow` is, but if you're not sure if you're ready for …

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    Comment #1471659

    An interesting description of an experience - all I can say is, a 7 day retreat is probably a really, really bad idea for a beginner

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    Comment #1466721

    I have A, B, and C tags ordered by "importance" to me - i.e. mostly rss feeds where I want to read or skim every entry. The rest are ordered by category/tag. Works fine for me! Als…

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    Comment #1464029

    couldn't have said it better myself

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    Comment #1460078

    Except, 37signals articles are clearly not statements of facts. If they were, your point would be awesome. But they are clearly opinion. "Resumes are dumb" != "The earth revolves a…