Microsoft’s Lam describes IronRuby at OSCON

The first Microsoft IronRuby source code drop is upon us, albeit as ‘pre-alpha’ software. Surprisingly, the software will appear first on RubyForge, where developers can grok on IronRuby using Subversive.

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Oppenheimer at Harvard

[July 4, 2007] – The threat of an A-bomb in Iraqi hands was the ultimate impetus that set the George W. Bush United States to a war that could well have no end, one which at the very least is the defining quagmire of the new century’s first decade. The bomb in the hands of Iraqi neighbors, Iran, looms as the next unsettling matter.

Ennui, alienation, hovering mass annihilation, ABMs, ICBMs, the Even of Destruction – that’s the backdrop to many of our youths. It’s playing out now as small combos prepare to do that which only the biggest nations could attempt.

It is weird  to think that the leader of the U.S. teams that created the first A-bomb was a delicate mesh of scientist and poet, in the end, a tragic figure, done in by his lethal invention and his soft-spot for arty friends who, in the style of their times, promoted liberal and communist causes.

Robert Oppenheimer is a truly haunting figure, well depicted in “American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. [2005]