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Archive for February, 2013
A Lot of Smalltalk about Ruby
012 years
This past week, I’ve had the opportunity to write some code in Ruby. What really struck me was how much it reminded me of another language that I haven’t used since the late 90’s—Smalltalk. After the PC revolution of the 80’s, Bank of America rolled out PCs to all their branches with in-house written business […]
Why Do People Tell Lies That Can Be Easily Checked?
012 years
by Roger Gibby
in Musings
A few weeks back, I couldn’t believe my ears, Glenn Beck and David Barton were saying that former President Ronald Reagan opposed the Brady Bill and the federal assault weapons ban. Here is a partial transcript. Beck: The assault weapons ban and handgun control—that was actually started by James Brady, but, the interesting thing is, […]