And I think that you and GitHub went through the stages of life together. They probably weren't exactly parallel, but I bet you measure and remember your life through GitHub's life to some degree, along with the projects you had there.

There's no question that with your drive and acumen that you could build the GitHub that you both had and want. It might be your next chapter.

https://ko-ko74.itch.io/balatro-for-the-commodore-64-c64

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/ace-of-aces/

Jim Rothwell (see the gallery image and enlarge it) was supposed to release something called Ace of Aces for the Ultimax, it seems, IIUC.

I didn't know about the Ultimax until 5 minutes ago.

EDIT: Here's the image link:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/wp-content/uploads/gtw64/a/a...

The Accolade Ace of Aces (WW2 combat flight sim) wasn't released until 1986.

It seems that this may have been a different Ace of Aces -- perhaps a version of the Nova tabletop game that never got released.

Anybody know anything about this?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-foo-b72a5b157/

If you need your accountant to tell you this, you were doomed from the beginning.

That usually ends that part of the conversation and we get onto something more relevant.

You can't simply hear Thiel's speech and directly get what he wants, because saying it would cause too much backlash.

He wants to use the government's massive resources to carry out projects that he's aligned with -- perhaps even that he has control over.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/21/peter-thi...

EDIT: (to explain why)

No other analysis I've seen anywhere of Thiel at the RNC takes into account this very, very important attempt at explaining Thiel's reasons:

""" Now, in 2016, Thiel has finally found a politician capable of seizing that opportunity: a disruptor-in-chief who will destroy a dying system and build a better one in its place. Trump isn’t just a flamethrower for torching a rotten establishment, however – he’s the fulfillment of Thiel’s desire to build a successful political movement for less democracy. """

Thiel doesn't want less government, but he does want less democracy, because he can achieve his aims more easily if this is the case (or so he believes).

Lest anyone read the above and somehow believe I'm a Trump or Thiel supporter/advocate/etc, I'm solidly NOT.

If you click my profile, you can email me and I hope you do. I wouldn't mind discussing the tech scene here, the city, etc, although I may end up working remotely.

"Are beer sales affected by weather?" is an example of a question that is solved by Variety, which is the the last concept he was talking about.

I've worked in orgs where C-level execs without a technical background were writing crazy complicated spreadsheets and nobody had any idea how they worked or if they were correct. When you bury the code, you bury the necessary processes around the code.

This is dangerous.

If you have the proper secret segregation now, but you're deploying by doing a git pull, now you run the risk of not really having segregated secrets all over again.

I like the assumption that he didn't care that his "rlci" lisp interpreter didn't garbage collect at all because it was just a way to get to the next step and he knew it was going to have enough RAM to do so.