<div dir="ltr"><div><div></div>The issue I'm hitting is the same in other languages; going from a very small thing to figuring out how to do a very big thing. The PHP community has the <a href="https://phpmentoring.org/">https://phpmentoring.org/</a> site and it's pretty cool. When I hit Freenode's #ruby channel I get a lot of grief about using an old Ruby, yet that's what's on my servers so that's what I can use day to day. If it's not day to day it isn't going to sink in. <br><br></div>I need to see if the Ruby community can pick up the mentoring idea.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Scott M. Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eff@dragoncon.org" target="_blank">eff@dragoncon.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And the best way to learn something is (still) to take on a project and<br>
force yourself to use the knowledge.<br>
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need to learn > want to learn<br>
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On 9/17/15 1:59 PM, leam hall wrote:<br>
> I am discontent and "want to" learn deeper languages like C, Go, and<br>
> Assembler. Yet my "want to" seems more a love for the idea of the thing<br>
> than the thing itself. I have hundreds of dollars in study materials for<br>
> them but get more done and have more fun with Ruby. I whine about Ruby's<br>
> resource consumption and then use it anyway.<br>
><br>
> My ego doesn't like the truths my actions proclaim.<br>
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