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by dasil003 4861 days ago
It's a bit banal though, of course you should learn something valuable. Isn't that what your mother's been telling you all these years?

I think the better lesson which is directly applicable to all coders is "question your assumptions". To me this was a huge benefit of learning ruby as it happens to be one of the easiest languages to pull your assumptions right out from under you.