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Great choice! Looks like they're officially up after a brief hiatus: https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books

I would add that the popularity of the original machine and the vast library of games built off of each other, and the result is a large community with love and nostalgia for the C…

CenturyLink, major telecom in 37 US states. DNS requests for all nonexistent domains go to a server that delivers a dumb "search" page to web requests. They're currently the sole f…

The article doesn't directly address (or takes as read) the ways reading is supposed to make you a better writer. Depth is better than breadth because a deep read is how you intern…

Lots of great advice in these comments. Adding a few bits based on my limited experience writing for O'Reilly: E-books are important. They're more than half the unit sales in my ca…

Ah, glad to have that clarified. The username in the misdelivered email I received looked very much like an attempt at a memorable password, not a username. Thanks!

They sent a notification email to every customer asking them to change their password. The email includes the user's current password. I know this because I received such an email-…

Avoiding names is polite and professional because there is potential for doubt in any situation, and one report by an injured party can inflate or distort the truth. This is hard t…

I couldn't get /Applications/Xcode.app/.../usr/bin/gcc to work for me today. It could not access stdlib includes and such. I got the Xcode preferences installer of the command-line…

I agree this behavior of full-screen mode is counterproductive on multi-monitor set-ups, and it's a serious issue if Apple is encouraging app developers to rely on this behavior in…