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I had a lot of fun playing John Tiller's Campaign Series by myself and with my buddies. We'd play the turn based, company/battalion level tactical game on a single computer using i…

Tangential, but here goes. I enjoy miniature wargaming. Sid Meier's 'Gettysburg' is one of my all-time favourite computer wargames. Thanks for creating it!

Nice find. Thanks.

Bookmarked, thank you.

> Failure post mortems, Things which explain a startups decisions step by step +1. I'd also add retrospectives/analysis of successful products to this list. Needn't necessarily be …

I'm familiar with tech blogs, and semi-follow a handful. Which product/design blogs does HN follow? Any recommendations? Thanks!

Typing messages is considered a PhD (?) level problem. Could you talk more about how you went about solving it? Thanks!

Thanks for commenting. Do you have any code somewhere that demonstrates type-safe messages?

> The infrastructure for background checks and criminal records in India is more or less nonexistent, so I doubt that Lyft would've been able to catch this driver before he committ…

A language spec is roughly analogous to the definitions of scientific units of measurement[1]. They among other things, allow us to verify something independently of a specific kin…

Don't forget the robotic mules. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigDog

FWIW Twitter and Coursera make heavy use of Scala (Twitter also uses Clojure, if you consider Storm etc.)

I'll probably get down voted for this but I'll say it nonetheless. Roger Ebert and now Margaret Thatcher. I respect them both but IMHO HN is hardly the place to mourn them. Just my…

The Washington Post article[1] on the launch comments on the the apparent cultural differences between NASA and SpaceX: Many of the SpaceX controllers wore untucked T-shirts and je…

Nice description. I'd suggest explaining how decorators that accept arguments (i.e. @memcached('some-arg')) work lest it befuddle some beginner. It is not straightforward (the firs…

I've found that pairing with interviewees on real(ish) problems usually helps to detect useful traits (I am not advocating pair-programing here FYI; rather working with them in fro…

On a lighter note, this is what Dilbert/Dogbert have to say on new "green" breakthroughs. http://dilbert.com/fast/2011-03-29/

In case any of the fabric folks hang out here I'd like to post a suggestion. local task no longer works with cd . It works well with lcd though. The change log presents lcd as a ne…