Monthly Archives: May 2007

The Beauty of Ruby (featuring Ruport)

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 31, 2007

It was pointed out to me recently that my Ruby posts up until this point kinda left my readers with the sense that I don’t like Ruby. I’d like to take this opportunity to categorically state that this is not true. In fact, I am a member of the Ruby Users of Minnesota group, which [...]

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Stupid Math

By Brian Hurt | Published: May 30, 2007

I have to vent a little bit about this article, which is claiming that the “real” deficit last year was $1.4 trillion, instead of the $248 billion reported. Now, you should know by now that I’m no friend of either Bush or the Republicans. And I agree that both the real debt and real deficit [...]

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A project I don’t want to do

By Brian Hurt | Published: May 29, 2007

I’ve had this idea kicking around for a while, and I’ve decided that I don’t want to do it. But I think it would be, quite likely, a very popular idea. So I’d though I’d throw it out, and if anyone else wanted to do it, they can have at it. The basic idea is [...]

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Pop Quiz

By Brian Hurt | Published: May 28, 2007

I’ve taken selective quotes from a well known American political party’s platform from a previous election, and am quoting them below. As you read them, try to guess which party, and when. Giveaways have been redacted, in the honorable (heh!) tradition of the current administration. Spoiler at the bottom.

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The Twin Cities Conference Scene

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 26, 2007

Kyle Drake’s commentary from the ruby.mn mailing list, which I felt like sharing. Some of the people there were kindof depressing, they would sit in the presentation and not actually pay attention, but just type in their irc chat rooms all day. [...] It’s an interesting contrast to the Twin Cities scene though, where we [...]

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