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Another VIC-20 alum here. At the age of 10, I remember trying to write a version of Donkey Kong in BASIC and was flabbergasted when I ran out of memory before I could even get barr…

Speaking as someone who cut my teeth in the 80s and early 90s: I miss the elitism and exclusivity of it. Nowadays the internet has made it so any question can be answered within se…

I learned that the startup dream of being acquired is bittersweet. Sweet that I got rich, bitter that my baby is now being eviscerated by the acquiring company to make it less blee…

I believe this to be true (embodiment as a precursor to cognition). So much of our early years learning is exploring how our various actions lead to a corresponding result. Touchin…

True. Except! The bone chilling winters and lake effect snow that accumulates into multiple feet. I remember one winter years ago where, when visiting my girlfriend, the wind-chill…

Not directly, but in acquisitions the price of the stock does help in all stock/part stock deals.

I'm just wading into the HA waters with Postgres. I somewhat understand the tradeoffs between simplicity and robustness, but what would be your recommendation on how to proceed for…

I wouldn't fret about it too much. There are a lot of interviewer egos out there and kids being put in the position of Ultimate Power(tm) can really do a lot of damage to the self-…

I disagree. What Snowden did was hugely important not just domestically but internationally. Without him we wouldn't have the current push to reform the surveillance state, so it w…

I gave Soylent a try when it first came out. The initial formulation gave me incredible gastro-intestinal distress, and it was so painful that I could barely sleep at night. Appare…

I lose about 20 points of IQ in a technical interview. It's nerve racking (I wear black shirts to hide the sweat) and it cost me a job working for a well known VR company. I passed…

Upgrading to the latest and greatest Macbook is absurdly cheap since you can sell your old model for close to the original price Oh how I wish that were true. I have a 2012 15" Mac…

I've done what you're attempting to do, and your instincts are right: there are much more interesting and worthwhile things outside of the game industry, including kids. It might b…

July 15th to be exact.

I'm curious as to the social angle on this. Do you get lonely out there, are friends primarily on line, is your partner (if applicable) happy with this situation, etc? I ask becaus…

You can't create art that way. (Well, you can, but it will be bad art.) I'm curious as to why you think that? There are a lot of really great projects on Kickstarter that would fal…

Hey! I grew up in the Downriver area as well (Lincoln Park specifically, about which the less said the better). Growing up, I only ever went into Detroit for concerts and the semi-…

I read that story yesterday, and I somewhat brushed it off as one judge's view. Thankfully that guy doesn't not sit on the Supreme Court, which is where all of this is headed. I'm …

Throughout our history many dubious actions have been "legal" but not necessarily right or just. Stateside, hopefully the Supreme Court will side with privacy rights once those cas…

I can relate to this. A few years ago I was a 30 year old guy who felt like a feeble 70 year old. I was tired, depressed, and just didn't feel well at all. I had a blood test and t…

This is some truly frightening stuff. There are large groups of people who relish the idea of a surveillance state in order to eliminate uncertainty in all things. And if privacy h…

Even though Notch writes that he wants to utilize VR for games and not 'social', I'm open to all the experiences that VR can provide, gaming or otherwise. But I think the bigger is…

Values matter. Ethics matter. If you're considering someone as a co-founder that believes the end justifies the means, or it is better to ask forgiveness than permission, then pass…

Grey skies for 7 months will do that.

This is exactly right. There is so much give in the system, and there has to be, because enforcing all laws as written would be a truly dystopian scenario. We don't want to live in…