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At least for me, my Livescribe has a learning curve to it. Plus it doesn't feel as natural to write in and with compared to a plain notebook. Again, this is just how I feel, but the Mod notebooks seem to place more emphasis on the design and quality of notebook compated to livescribe.

It doesn't take decades to become a general Surgeon at least not in the US. You have to get your undergraduate studies done (4 years) and then go to medical school (4 years ). After that you have to do your residency in general surgery which is about five years. So it adds up to be about 13 years give or take.

Why is it when we talk about gender, race, and technology together we get so bent out of shape? It’s a fact that in the US the tech scene is predominantly made up of white males. Because of that we have some people who want to add some diversity to our community. And these people have designed and built special programs to address this. Try and remember what got you interested in the tech scene may not work for the next kid.

Not spending money = a conservative life wasn't what I meant by my statement. I was just pointing out that we do have people in the world who prefer to live their lives very conservatively and beneath their means financially. I wasn't saying one thing equals another.

I think it's a matter of comfort. Some people can live life flying by the seat of their pants. In my opinion, those types of people are comfortable with moving fast, breaking and fixing things, and trying new adventures. They can look back at their lives and tell their grand kids how they'd lived to the fullest. But, on the other side of the spectrum. We have people who feel comfortable living very conservative lives way beneath their means. I think it provides them a sense of security and empowerment. They may come from backgrounds where they never had much growing up that could've contributed to that behavior, maybe. I'm sure my denfintion of a wholeheartedly lived life would be different from yours and a lot of other people. I don't necessary think your definition or anyone else is wrong. I just know at the end of the day we come from different backgrounds. Our desires from life have been shaped by different lives lived in different times or places. If it's comfortable for you to do and you're still happy about life afterwards with no regrets, I see no problem calling it "living life to fullest".

I'd say you're on the right track. I wouldn't mind seeing some screencast of the following:

- How to setup automated deployment for rails apps, scala play apps, node.js apps and so forth.

- How to use Vagrant to simulate an app that uses riak clusters.

To be honest, I think ruby is a very good backend language to start out with. The syntax is very clean and easy to understand, the online resources are very vast and up to date. A lot of startups use ruby on rails because you're able to build apps very fast with it. That's why you see a lot of rails job openings in Silicon Valley, because that's where a lot of the startups are.