humblepatience

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

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

I wish he would say why blueray sucks

read my mind, awesome list.

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 pleasant.

From what I've heard, it's practicing 10 minutes a day for a while.

Going to a session helps too

For some reason I think "mock soup"

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 a 7 day retreat and you go anyway you might end up like this guy (in the article).

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

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!

Also I use Postrank to turn some of the high-volume into low-volume high-importance feeds.

couldn't have said it better myself

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 around the sun"

Wait so, why don't you write a cover letter again?

on right because...

its the first sign of arrogance and disregard to throw away the intellectual capital of time honored industry practice

cover letter is industry standard too, yo, but you disregarded it

I'm sorry, technology is a little pond? I don't know what economy you are living in.

It's funny, because a lot of people, esp in the Agile community emphasize the necessities of having people work together not only in an office, but in a wide open space.

Personally I find it rather frustrating as the noise sucks and sometimes I'm not going to get any work done whether I'm in an office or not and offices are generally lame to just hang out in and recharge until your ready to start the horses again.

I wrote a response to this on my blog

http://www.scottschulthess.com/coding/?p=143

Basically, there are other benefits to TDD than just preventing regression.

Documentation and ease of debugging while your writing code being the biggest ones.

In a non-compiled language it can serve to verify that your at least runs without gross failure a little like the compiler does.

The way I read the article it sounded like he was downplaying the usefulness of even healthy amount of testing i.e. writing tests along with the code your writing.

Certainly, all his arguments downplay TDD in general

thanks teyc, thats just the kind of thing i was thinking of, 'cept that's for silverlight

"I once asked a team leader, who had .net and PHP experience and was in the middle of a large Ruby On Rails project, what the benefits of Ruby and Ruby On Rails were. She could not think of a single one."

run?

so you're saying that you don't learn how to do things by reading books or taking courses or doing exercise?

fuck, that sucks man.

I did what you are doing for 3 years or so in the beginning.

Nothing particularly wrong with it.

The only reason I'd switch to using Version Control if I were you is that managing the file copies and different directories with features you are working on can be a hassle. You tend to have extraneous files lying around. Plus with VC you get nice histories on all the files.

I've worked through acquisitions.

I think in a lot of cases if you request a refund instead of the new service you'll get one.