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Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data…
You probably don't have much of a choice.
The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans…
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to…
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick
NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's…

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