ralphael

If your into retro gaming or even just gaming history its well worth investing time in it. He's done an amazing job and I find myself looking at the blog notes for magazines and articles to do further reading on.

I loved Atrain too. Years later I would discover that many sequels to it were made, although some came out in Japanese (http://www.artdink.co.jp/company/english/history.html).

Thanks to Steam, A-Train 9 came out circa 2010 in English quite recently (http://store.steampowered.com/app/278550/)

If your into Retro gaming, I highly recommend reading it as he has written it http://www.filfre.net/sitemap.

His writing his amazing and I'm always interested in how pieces of gaming history fit together.

Another way to read it, is as I have come across a theme I'm interested in I just follow that tag for a while e.g. http://www.filfre.net/tag/sierra

All in all, this blog is amazing and well worth supporting IMHO.

thanks Wes, purchasing now!

I bought a refurbished MacBook Pro over 6 years ago now. It was in perfect condition. My 2010 model is still going strong. When I bought it they had upgraded for free the RAM to 8GB and gave me the 7200 RPM drive as a nice surprise.

I know bandwidth is cheap these days but including a 14.9mb cover image on such a major story....?

...this is a good reminder that sometimes its a good idea to hire for certain positions, based on prior experience.

Well said, I interview a lot of developers and always refuse to add to our interview process or ask any questions where the candidate could easily google the answer.

We will do a basic phone interview, to seek out what they know about the areas we work in and then dig - explain how it works and why how we would use it?

Then its a technical test if they pass the phone interview. Now demonstrate some the concepts we previously talked about.

I think this adds some necessary context to the previous "300-500K" comment.

Well put, this is looking exactly like a post .com bubble. A rising tide lifts all boats.

So when the tide goes out....

That was just such a great read, many thanks to the OP.

Nothing beats depth of experience and passion, to give you an insiders view.

ebay here I come!

thanks for this, didn't know it existed!

Thanks for this, I really enjoyed the article. Its what I have been thinking of for a while but quantified much better.

thanks for the article Tony. Loved it, really enjoyed the detail you went into. Look forward to more.

Some of the formatting in the blog post seems to have been lost. Words appear to start mid sentence.

Apart from that, really enjoyed the article. Would love to see more.

I've solved my most complex problems when I went for a run on the evening of the day where I got stuck.

There's something about stepping away and being able to step through each scenario and look at things from a different angle.

Love this blast from the past.

I just spent 20 minutes watching the demo run through :-)

Thank them for market validation and get stuck into it. Lots of people have ideas and then produce MVP's. But execution and level of funding will determine who survives.

It's not a zero sum game.

..box it and they will come

Working for me on FF 20.0.1 / Win 7, after the suggestions to delete HN cookies.

..another vote for .Net, MVC and SQL Server from me.

A great example of this stack, is that it powers stackoverflow.com

I really like the simplicity.

One thing, I originally viewed it on my iPhone and was going to suggest a mobile version since I found display issues.

It wasn't until I viewed it on my PC that I saw you have a mobile button, on the top right hand corner.

Maybe for the demo, if you detect a smart phone could you show the mobile version?

Keep up the great work!

I like the simplicity and good idea on changing the title :-)

yep, couldn't agree more! The laptop could be the best present you ever buy him! ..second to Lego :-)

great story! thanks for posting.

I like the original approach and the way an admin can impersonate a user is a nice win.

Agreed - the benefits of ReSharper far outweigh the negatives IMHO, it does love RAM though.

If its slowing your machine down, there's a few things you can do like turn off code analysis which will help, you can optionally run this later.

As for the additional things it "adds", there's pretty much an option to enable/disable/customise everything.