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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 its unique single-machine play feature. I can still remember the hex tiles, and the catchy background music.

Thanks for all the memories. RIP John.

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 software even.

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 committed a crime any more than Uber would've been able to.

Yes, blame it on the system. Never mind that Uber performed NO checks; never mind that the guy's record was revealed shortly after his arrest, indicating that had Uber performed a check they stood a good chance of finding the same out.

While India's police system is not perfect, Uber's attitude is downright arrogant: "it is you natives and your cops who are to blame". The law mandates a background check, you didn't follow the mandate. The least you can do is to own up to that.