When I submitted the article, I used its full title "Why You Should Read This Out Loud" and HN botched the surgery.

Oh I know, it's some dumb function of HN, not the submitters. It's a total hackjob mess of a "feature" and should be removed.

Thanks… Do you have neat handwriting?

Not especially :) Legible but somewhat awkward.

Where would you direct someone for tips on implementing Game of Life?

These days, without knowing more about preferred programming language or the purpose of the implementation, I'd probably start by pointing to this very thorough series of blog posts by Eric Lippert, from LifeWiki/Tutorials:

  https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Tutorials/Coding_Life_simulators

Life simulators have been coded in so many different ways, in so many languages, by so many different people in the last half-century ... that it takes several dozen articles to work through a reasonable survey of the possible ideas and methods.

Thank you!

As an adult: - Under The Skin - especially when I read excerpts of the book

As a teenager: - Syriana - The Matrix - Fight Club - Before Sunrise

Wow. Good on them for engaging with the discussion, as imperfect as it may be…

Loved New Turing Omnibus too. It felt very exciting to program some basic genetic algorithms and even the Newton-Raphson method as a teenager

Thanks for sharing your experience! I didn’t know about that.

The biggest miscarriage of justice in British history - all caused by software error

I did the same (although some years after the acquisition) and had a similar experience, though over the years I've managed to claw back some of the friends I lost. Though it's still hard to communicate with them.

(I thought it said inveNtors, not inveStors... That would be exciting to read too)