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by dansanderson 4y ago
Great choice! Looks like they're officially up after a brief hiatus: https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books
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Amiga 1000 Upgrade in 30 Years: Parceiro II [video](amigalove.com)
5 points by dansanderson 4y ago|0 comments
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by dansanderson 4y ago
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 C64. That in turn perpetuates modern projects, newcomers to t
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by dansanderson 9y ago
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 fiber-to-the-home provider in my neighborhood,
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by dansanderson 9y ago
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 internalize how language communicates ideas. The argument for
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by dansanderson 10y ago
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 case. Look for good e-book royalty rates. Someone me
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by dansanderson 13y ago
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!
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by dansanderson 13y ago
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-- intended for someone else who accidentally used my e
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by dansanderson 14y ago
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 to see when you are the injured party, but that's why these
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by dansanderson 14y ago
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 tools to work, and that put a gcc in /usr/bin/ that worke
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by dansanderson 14y ago
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 instead of providing more useful window layouts. It's a viola