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I've added a mention of the Cold Fusion book, with a little anecdote about its owner. Thanks for spotting it! I must have had something in my eye whilst looking at that photo.

I tried dating that issue of Metro, but was unable to!

Thanks so much for your kind words, glad you enjoyed them!

I played all the first five albums! The Deepest Cut Vol 1 (1995), Haunted Science (1996), Skeleton Keys (1997), Byte Size Life (1999) and Even Angels Cast Shadows (2001) which was …

Thanks for this recap. I'd heard much about their demise over the years, so it's good to hear it first hand!

It's wonderful how they kept the name of the company where she worked, Magic Button, and Blueberry, out of the press. And the veil of mystery concocted by the crack marketing team …

Y2K is a strange half familiar, half alternate timeline sort of nostalgia, isn't it?

Please, just for this one thread, let's keep it on topic!

Each person that dies by his weapons of war makes him stronger.

JoAnne Ishimine was a volunteer, former Channel 7 LA news anchor, and actress. She had the skills! And the time, obviously.

Am I understanding correctly that around 1997 a single person transcribed 42 hours of recordings? Wild and impressive. I wonder how long it took them? Modern tools would likely do …

I'll leave it to you to find a better example.

The crash you speak of was USA-only—for example Europe where I am wasn't affected—just to point out to anybody unfamiliar with that story. That said, I think your point is a good o…

A death thread hidden behind a link? Charming.

Author here. It leaves me despondent that I can plough so much time into a project, a game, and a blog post, have someone else find it interesting enough to submit to HN, and then …

Hi, author here. I've always used the term postmortem to summarise a project after it has shipped: what worked, what didn't, what was kept, what was thrown out. This post has all t…

Maybe, but IMHO the idea will always come first.

It’s certainly a Herculean task, not because there aren’t *type designers who use FontForge, but because there are simply too many of them for me to even consider speaking for them…

You're a hobbyist...yet you know what individual software all other type designers use? That is impressive ;)

Original page title is "Hi, Jinks! - a totally new way to make games" This is my project so I can vouch for it being totally new :) AMA

Does the number × depend on how big your thinking is? If you are only 2× then you need to think bigger, aim higher, etc. I think the limit on the 2× is not the ai? Where is the lim…