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In 1993 I had my 11th birthday party at a bowling alley and they had a Ridge Racer cabinet. Seeing those graphics completely rearranged my molecules. I had no idea that a video game could look so realistic.

I know this is getting downvoted, but I think there's a few croutons of truth in this snarky soup.

I think this is a YouTube Premium feature now.

> If there were intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, they'd share certain truths in common with us. For example, I think we'd share the principle that a controlled experiment testing some hypothesis entitles us to have proportionally increased belief in it.

I was thinking more "triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones", but you do you!

How much equity do you typically give up in a seed round?

Texts have been green before iMessage came out though

I wondered why they capitalised “People”.

Start a newsletter for the audience you’d like to one day serve.

I run a small but growing business (£0.5m) that I started in 2017. But for the first 3 years I had a job.

For most of that time it was largely an email newsletter - completely under the radar of anyone who might be looking.

This is why we stick with ConvertKit.

Other email providers make you jump through hoops to send an email newsletter that looks like it came from a person.

I researched these a while ago and the way these “titles” work is simple: you change your name by deed poll to “Lord Appleseed” or whatever you fancy.

Although amusingly while they say deed poll, there’s no such concept in law. In actuality you just start using your new name and that’s basically it.

Touché, I have zero experience of goats. Thanks for putting me right!

>There's no real reason to call the fox knowingly malicious and the goat not.

I think we imagine foxes to have a level of cunning that a placid goat lacks.

It's similar, but not quite equivalent.

The fox is malicious. It knows it will destroy the property, whereas the goat is happily oblivious to the destruction it brings.

I run a community for agencies (Agency Hackers).

I wonder if a flat fee would have been the way to go here? Was that something you looked at?

Also, this was an interesting post, and I would love to have you talk to our community about it sometime if you're up for it.

There's a good Darknet Diaries episode about a social engineer who makes money from these SEC bounties: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/80/

I run a community for people who run marketing services agencies. We didn't have an online forum, and things like Slack just didn't seem conducive to long-form, quality discussion.

I was very close to using some vBulletin type software, but we went with a platform called Guild which I can recommend.

You have to pay for it, but there are no adverts and it's very smooth.

I'm always surprised and intrigued when people recall discovering music through Napster. All I remember is using it as a pirate search engine for songs that I already knew I wanted.

How did Napster work as a music discovery tool? Obviously there was some aspect I was missing out on.

It's quite strange (and nice) to see a hint of nostalgia creeping back in to Apple's communications. For a long time, celebrating its history seemed verboten at Apple?

There's that story of Jobs getting rid of the Apple Museum that occupied the foyer. Something about not wanting Apple to be a company that was living in its past.

In September 2004, I went to the World Wide Newton Conference in Paris.

A chap called Adam Tow gave a talk where he showed us an email he got from Steve Jobs about the future of the Newton.

Basically, one day in 1997 or 1998 Adam was walking past Homma's Brown Rice Sushi in Palo Alto, and saw Steve Jobs getting some takeout. Adam wanted to ask him about the fate of the Newton, but managed to hold his tongue.

Instead, he went home and emailed jobs using the subject line "Homma's Brown Rice Sushi", because he figured that since he was just there he'd open the email.

It worked!

Steve replied, and they got into a discussion on the future of the Newton. You can see the exchange here on slide 61: http://wwnc.newtontalk.net/2004/program/adamtow/slides-adamt...

I’ve never quite grasped, what does the term “condition” mean in this context?

Can anybody explain why the rouble is at a five-year high? Or is there something in the intricacies of currency pairings that means this high isn't quite like other "highs"?

I worry that not enough people are aware of these little touches, and that one day they'll disappear.

Love Preview, but the markup features are seriously confusing. It isn’t clear how the shapes and the colours relate to one another, so even after 12 years drawing a filled box is much harder than it needs to be.

I recommend the Darknet Diaries episode on how an IT guy discovered the Puerto Rico State lottery was being rigged: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/101/

It's like the 1920s TV Tropes.

This is fantastic. Really love your calm, investigative tone. Look forward to part two.

Some kid is going to stand up and say: “You can throw me in jail or cancel my degree but I’m not paying my student debt… who’s with me?” And then the whole house of cards that is higher education collapses.

I also use Vimeo as a B2B solution and the “indie YouTube” side really frustrates me. Every time I search my own videos to find something, Vimeo defaults to scouring all its public videos and throwing up all kinds of twee college projects and thumbnails with laurel wreaths from film festivals.

Now Vimeo is grown up I wonder if it’s time it decided what it’s going to be.

Yes - I also recall reading this in 2002 when Google took over the Deja News archive.

It’s odd to reflect that it’s been longer since I first read this nostalgic post… than the time it was actually looking back on.

I’m sure I could word that better, but hopefully it makes some sense.

The article is a bit laboured. "This profile photo wasn't real. And this profile wasn't real. And the company wasn't real! And the pitch documents were stolen!"

We get it – it was a fake company.