LAN Christmas Party with the family? Can I come? What are we playing? Or is it more of a family Hackathon?

Obviously, you need to learn a language to get started. But try to learn the principles behind the language and not JUST the language.

I have to go tinkle.

"I stabbed a guy with a triton!"

That's normal. I believe it has to do with the people who print/assemble the book. I recently got some Sherlock Holmes books from Barnes & Noble with the exact same thing.

Bad assumption. A lot of people love OSX and its terminal. Lovers of Terminal don't require a particular *nix distro, just a CLI.

You Mac likes to drop a loud tone when you boot up that's meant to tell you that everything is working. That start-up chime is fine for most people, but it's often a problem if you're in class or somewhere else where you need to keep your Mac quite. To disable that sound permanently, just enter this into Terminal:

The Nike pill.

Great points. You say editing, I say refactoring (in my case).

This is probably the best (only) mentality one should have on this sort of "investment".

Sometimes, I eat the whole orange. Take the bitter with the sweet.

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Let's start simple. Controllers are fine, and they offer you a sit-back-on-the-couch experience that, frankly, is much more relaxing than sitting at your desk with a keyboard and mouse. But the latter is easier to use, has a much better degree of precision (without auto-aim, at least), and a ton of variety (from…

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Oh fascinating. This reminds me of the old "Is your red the same as mine?"

Lump of coal

I've never owned and or used an aeropress (though I was considering getting one), but I've grown very fond of my french press.

"...our vision has peculiar hacky flaws..."

Thanks for the links!