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So now it's time for the real showman, Steven Baker. You have to listen to his stories about the Trailer Park Boys, but now there will be something more related to the program. Hopefully, maybe, I don't know. Good luck! The stage is yours.
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Thanks, buddy. Oh yeah, I need this thing too. All right, thanks. Do I get a red light on this? Oh, look at this! Are there any cats in here?
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All right, cool. So I don’t remember what I said I was going to talk about. I saw the sign today for the first time and I realized I forgot to tell them I changed my mind.
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I can’t remember what I was going to talk about. I was going to discuss how Rails is like 20 years old and how there weren't many new projects getting started in Rails for a while.
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But it's kind of coming back, and isn’t that awesome? While I was working out my thoughts on that, I realized that writing software has gotten so much better.
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We messed it up badly, making things that should be easy hard. Why did we do this to ourselves? So, uh, this is me. If you want to talk to me or curse at me on Twitter, you can tell me you hate my beard.
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I’ll show this again at the end. I'm a storyteller. I'm going to tell a story and then try to make it sound relevant.
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I'm from a place in Canada called Nova Scotia. It's on the east coast, and it's a small drinking province with a minor fishing problem. It's known for a couple of things.
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It's known for donairs, which is very similar to a food with a similar name that you know exists over here. Back in the '50s, a guy from Lebanon moved to Halifax and decided to bring his food with him.
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The locals said it was terrible, so he thought, 'Well, I'm just going to make a special sauce that appeals to the local appetite.'