Monthly Archives: July 2010

File under “Smart Is Not Enough”

Posted on Tue, 13 Jul, 2010 by pmjones

I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. "Jeff, you're so smart. You had to have made some tricky estimates, figure out the number of minutes in a year and do some division." That's not what happened. … Continue reading →

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Debt Is A Cancer

Posted on Mon, 12 Jul, 2010 by pmjones

“The commission leaders said that, at present, federal revenues are fully consumed by just three programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. ‘The rest of the federal government, including fighting two wars, homeland security, education, art, culture, you name it, veterans … Continue reading →

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Universal Constructor Sighting “In The Wild”

Posted on Fri, 09 Jul, 2010 by pmjones

For those of you who don’t know, “universal constructor” is the name I give to PHP constructors that always and only take a single parameter. The parameter is an array of key-value pairs, which is then merged with a set … Continue reading →

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What we should Americans do on the 4th of July?

Posted on Sun, 04 Jul, 2010 by pmjones

* Congratulate ourselves on the glory that is America? No, that’s delusional. We inherited America, and are squandering its strengths. * Congratulate the founders on their accomplishments? Nice, but they would prefer that we maintain their work — not wreck … Continue reading →

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