Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.