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I did that with 'Psycho'. The publicity for the original release was full of pleas that people not give away the ending. By now, is there anyone in all of western civilization that…

"Accelerated C++" is another good one. A bigger book than K&R, but not outrageously so, and much thinner than Stroustrup's or Lippman's texts. Rather than teaching C and then layer…

Every desktop of laptop OS I know of comes with at least one JavaScript interpreter installed. The real problem is the growth of phones and tablets as preferred client devices; whi…

That reminds me a lot of ESR's "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way". Two variations of a general rule, I think: if you want someone's help, make it as easy and hassle-free as possi…

Seems to me (IANAL) that Apple could sue on fraud or breach of contract: if Lodsys sold a license to Apple on the pretext that the developers were covered, and then later went afte…

Charles Stross does that in his novel Glasshouse : durations are described in kiloseconds, megaseconds, and gigaseconds. (100Ksec is just under 28 hours -- a reasonable proxy for a…

Reasonable point; but I think one should draw a line between things that obviously are crimes, and offenses that stretch the definition of 'crime' beyond recognition, as in this ca…

Downloads from O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf, at least those in PDF format, have the account holder's name at the bottom of each page. If that's changed, it must have happened recent…

The post has been moved, and updated by members of MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering community: http://mitnse.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japa...

The vendor really should supply a patch.