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I am not sure I understand, so I will defer to you.

My understanding was that independent game authors were writing games and making cartridges for these games which they then sold.

If I am understanding you correctly, somewhere in this chain is copyright infringement? Are people buying a cartridge, extracting the content, and loading it into new cartridges?

Is the market large enough to support that much effort and expense?

Or are people finding roms, perhaps intended for use with emulators, and loading those onto physical cartridges and selling them without renumeration or permission?

If so, is the market large enough for that to go unnoticed? My understanding was a successful new game might sell a few thousand cartridges and great success was in the 10,000 units sold area.

Being so small a market, and requiring the investment to even make the cartridges, it'd seem easier to spot this (from the IP owner's perspective) and seek preventative legal responses.

Sort of related: I know this requires some specialized equipment to make new cartridges, but do you know if they sell blank cartridges that can just be loaded with games? I am aware that some cartridges had custom chips on them and didn't confirm to any standard, like Zelda cartridges that contained memory and a chip for saving game states.

I am guessing, hopefully, that you know more about this stuff than I do.
a $1000 mortgage payment? where can i find that in the bay?
Roku has made all the difference for many. It has most every streaming option including Amazon who refuses to work on Chromecast.

It's easy compared to most other Internet Video Stream Receivers by offering a WiFi remote (not your phone) and a TV/Cable channel metaphor UI rather than a web metaphor UI.

It works really well for the non-technical and older people.
Sometimes having your mortgage paid and getting to eat trumps self actualization.

You pay me, I'll do what the job calls for and we're square. Motivation is a weasel word. I'm either meeting your (hopefully reasonable) performance requirements or I'm not.
Now that I'm in a position of hiring technical people, this seems crazier than ever to me. It's hard to hire talented software engineers because they're so in demand. I would be glad to consider eager and talented prospective employees who I don't have to compete hard for.
That is probably good advice but this style of coding
(which comes down to lawless type classes without inherent utility) does make it much more difficult to read unknown code.

Usually documentation isn't fleshed out in internal modules so I end up flipping between various instances and call sides just to figure out what the type class is supposed to do. This doesn't mean that there aren't valid use cases for this but please don't use it as default.
It seems like many employers are quite worried about hiring someone who is under qualified, even though they can legally fire them for any (for certain values of any) or no reason where I live.

Given that, it doesn't seem like the worse problem in the world to hire someone who is over qualified, and if they get real unhappy, they give a professional 2-weeks notice and then leave.

I think we're all probably ignoring the real reason this happens though, those hiring are intimidated by the over qualified candidate. "A's hire A's and B's hire C's" as they say.
You know, I'm actually really impressed with Google for speaking with their money on this. There's a lot of "why don't these hicks just get a real job", but no one really seems interested in furthering that sentiment.

There's popular opposition to Trump's promise to give people jobs by resurrecting industries that a lot of people (probably Google as well) would rather see stay dead. But there's no denying people need jobs, and formal education ain't cheap.

Now we've got a tech giant backing that up with cold hard cash. It would be great to see other companies getting on board and putting some dough in the ring or at least offering some kind of internship/work experience programs for people coming out of an education funded by these grants.
Most likely this will end like Color or Cuil who had great PR until they actually got to market and immediately faded away. I don't think in computing you can build anything for 7 years without market input.
Is it under GPL, or under GFDL? If the latter, you probably have to include a rant by Richard Stallman about the magic of Free Software on the back of the shirt (GFDL has clauses to force you to reproduce… well, that).
To tag on to this: I'd argue that work and school are more engaging than video games. When was the last time you just stopped going to work because it wasn't fun? Having to do these things in order to survive is extremely exciting, it just that the excitement doesn't feel good.
McDonald's grade tech is going to impact our brains the same as MsDonald's food is impacting our physical health.
Surely if you don't want live there it is easier not to do it? What is the goal here?
Yup, pretty sure it is AR headset with a 1-1 virtual earth.
Why is that? Automotive in Germany is generally a high pressure high turnaround job. If you're not at one of the big car manufacturers themseves chances are your employer has closed in 10 years, or fired 50% of their employees or something ridiculous like hat.

Additionally, nowadays you don't get hired by car manufacturers but by third party companies that loan their workers to them. In the lower levels (factory work) there is some pushback against that, but in the higher levels its generally accepted
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1) stock siezure would kill the market. no one wants to invest in a company if the company stock can get yanked anytime. also, a share of stock is worth what someone will pay me for (ie when i want to convert that stock to cash). who will buy this from me if all of a sudden a bunch of people will take the JG wentworth option and cash out now.

2) i absolutely agree with the insurance companies being on the hook. They alone will drive insurance rates that are through the roof if the company cant prove pen-testing, employee background checks etc... Unfortunately teh key to making insurance company care, is setting a high standard for breach victim payouts. ie if it only ends up costing an average of $0.10 per individual victim, i dont need to insure equifax for that much?
You do when your lines get too long. :)
People rant and rave about how pulseaudio is broken on their system. Pulseaudio is pretty easy to configure for most things. Sometimes it even (unexpectedly) configures itself!
An interesting "game", i failed but i knew it was rigged from the start, kind of like uber i guess, which i'm sure is the point they're trying to make.
A textbook example of a quasi-class: http://www.idinews.com/quasiClass.pdf
Nah. The problem with overqualified people is that they will get bored very quickly and either underperform or leave.

They can also cause a lot of friction because their higher level of knowledge and experience can make them refuse to follow established processes and procedures, even when there are very good contextual and historical reasons for why those processes and procedures exist at that particular organization. This can cause a lot of resentment among their coworkers.

Personally, I have never worked with an overqualified person who didn't quickly develop what is commonly referred to as an "attitude problem". That's of course just my own experience.
Yes, that would be most of the programmers in the current setting of IT industry.
What is it about tech work that requires such a high intelligence, as you state? Because I'm a tech employee and would argue that your claim is completely unfounded. There's nothing special about learning how to code—it's a very trainable skill. Takes a lot of time and dedication, sure, but trainable nonetheless.
Which is why you have to have that discussion with them and ask them to consider whether or not their work satisfaction comes from being challenged at work or not.

And while they may not be honest with you about that, in general there are many things that interviewing people are often not quite as honest with the interviewer as you might expect. A good example was a guy who said he was ok with commuting from Los Gatos to Redwood City and took the job, and then called up the Thursday before the Monday when he would have started to say he had taken a job for lower pay but was closer to home.
It is extremely easy to buy [fake] accounts that will mimic real user activity. These were available on certain forums 3-4 years ago, before people started "catching on".

Having tinkered in the 'dark economy' meant to defraud advertisers before being employed by the advertisers, I trust nothing. The 'dark economy' will be always be miles ahead
That's right. Isn't the young energetic person who is eager to learn and grow at least as likely to leave after they've learned-and-grown as a person who is more skilled and gets bored.

I'm 36 now, with a mortgage, and have stayed in the job I am in now longer than any job I've had before.
> API Gateway intercepts the request from the web app, extracts out the access_token, talks to the Token Exchange endpoint (or the STS), which will validate the access_token and then issues a JWT (signed by it) to the API Gateway.

What is "it" in this quote? Will JWT be signed by API Gateway?

Otherwise.. a great article! Made my understanding of security princinples in architecture like that MUCH clearer
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Well, the goal would be to spend 4-6 months out of the year in NL and work towards an eventual EU citizenship five years down the line. That would be totally fine. It's mostly the logistics and cost of keeping around an empty apartment for half the year that I'm concerned about.
Probably helps that he is in a field that is so esoteric that he really doesn't have a lot of other people to talk to this stuff about.

It's not like people go home and talk to their partners about vertex shaders for a half hour.
So are you saying overqualified developers have a higher maintenance cost, or are you trying to show that the original analogy isn't a complete 100% point to point analogy? If the former how so?
Your employer's rights are very much the issue.
I guess other than wanting a continuing supply of in-country tech's to hire (as others have touched on), it sort of comes back to the old "give a man a fish" vs "teach him to fish" shenanigans.

They could hire a bunch of janitors, who are already employed anyway, and essentially just transfer that $1b directly into their pockets but at the end of the day they're still going to be janitors. By investing that some amount of money into education though, they're enabling them to go off and achieve something more meaningful that they wouldn't otherwise have been able to do.
Amazing. Did they need to jailbreak or physically open the phone to find all this stuff? They talk about reversing binary images and using their "Legilimency" toolkit; I wonder if a vanilla phone was enough to research all this and propagate through Wi-Fi.
The reason for the recent Bitcoin pump is most likely the upcoming fork. Everyone wants to hold, in hopes that the Bitcoin gold will rise like Bitcoin Cash did in the last fork - Although, I doubt it will

I also invest in Ethereum over Bitcoin, along with a few other cryptos. However, it is pretty awesome seeing the prices a coin can reach.
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Would you say there is a certain level of abstraction above which rust seemed to work somewhat smoothly?
Absolute price has nothing to do with company value. For example BRK.A is $279,383.00 a share.
Pretty sure we all do. The constraints under which he was operating to create the mess I took over I understand well, and I do not blame him for the end result.

He is a manager now, though, not a day-to-day programmer ;)
The difference is that your brother is commuting for the day whereas with HSR half the tickets are for people to arrive in LA without a car.
The parent was correcting the GP's typo, not asking what they meant.
Yea but that is a high risk to take. Imagine you are the manager, and you have been given just one head count. Who would you choose? Would you risk your head count on an over-qualified person?
In my experience, when someones applicable experience is more than what is stipulated by the job requirements, they come up to speed much faster. I hired a brilliant engineer who did the new hire on-boarding exercises we reserved a couple of weeks for in about 6 hours.

I say applicable because having a PhD in Chemistry is not being "over qualified" for entry level programming. But having 10 writing code could be interpreted as having more qualification than the job merits.
No revenues is one thing. No product is another.
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I'm surprised to see webpagetest.org left out of the list of suggested tools.
It has a Lightning port, so maybe a different at-the-time undisclosed DMA exploit?
I'm not sure the author is doing an either/or. Instead she is examining the uses of the word "pharmakon" in Plato's work, and suggests that how it describes the innovation of written speech as a spell or drug or scapegoat could be inferred of technology, too. The author concludes, "Demonizing the substance, rather than the impulse, behind addiction is what leads us away from true healing and towards damaging narratives. Technophobia isn’t a soothing ointment, it’s pushing some guy you don’t like off a cliff and hoping your pustules magically disappear."
Who doesn't need a car in LA though? LA has terribad public transit, if you are planning on renting a car on the far end you can probably afford to fly too.
I think they mean $1000/week, which makes more sense considering the character has two children. But who would get approved for a $4.3k/month mortgage on a single earner getting paid less than minimum wage?
I'm sure there's research on this already, but just a thought - it seems to me like it would be easier to do NLP on Chinese, vs English. (I speak both). Much easier to recognize the author's meaning in Chinese characters, and more often than not people use the same words to describe something.. vs. the frankly disgusting mess that is English. Misspellings abound, the same words can mean all kinds of things, grepping for strings is hard because sequences of letters aren't unique, etc.
I did a 3 month contract working on porting Terraria (the actual game) from XNA to Unity and updating things like UI from sprite batching etc.

Coincidentally and fwiw, the actual source code to Terraria was also a hellscape of spaghetti code.
You can't even teach calculus to some people to the point where they can pass a class. Some people in programming classes can't even submit homework that compiles.
Yeah, there's at least one comment in there to fit most stereotypes. They range from disbelief to saying the product is no different than other products. There are price complaints to comments that don't seem to even understand - but the commenter was happy to add their opinion.

A few people actually understood and made comments, and some had seen a recent demo. Some speculated about patents and one was happy to point out that they had a whole notebook full of ideas. Some seemed to think the software could do things it couldn't actually do, and certainly not at that stage.

One person even complained that it wouldn't work for him because if his old hardware. Others complained that it didn't meet their needs. Some even seemed unhappy that it wasn't available to run on their obscure OS. Of course, they couldn't use a more popular OS and then virtualized their obscure OS.

Also, there are comments to complain about the site management, people insulting other people, and comments that hadn't a damned thing to do with the subject at hand.

For so few comments, it's like they managed to hit every stereotype. It's absolutely my favorite reference thread and it works for so many conversations. I actually made it a point to finally bookmark it on my tablet as I've been using it more than a laptop lately.
That was a pretty tough game, I only beat out 17% of players. Loved the aesthetics too.

I think it did a good job of putting me in the driver's seat, forcing me to make some tough decisions.

But what happens after week 1? Do you go right back into the grind and work 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year? Brutal.
Can you say a bit more, how did the "attitude" manifest itself? And was it something the manager was unable to see? I ask because I would like to understand the dynamic a bit better. How might you address an 'attitude' problem with one of your co-workers regardless of how the attitude originated?
They do it because of the Civil Rights Act of 1964:

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States[5] that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

And also the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C. § 621 to 29 U.S.C. § 634) is a US labor law that forbids employment discrimination against anyone at least 40 years of age in the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employme...

You see, they aren't passing on you based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or age; it's because you are overqualified, or not a cultural fit. It's like the "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!" loophole in South Park.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3RJUMm-hd0

Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or age is very difficult to prove in a court of law.
It should be signed by the STS - which is trusted by all the downstream microservices. The STS, who validates the access_token, in the response can send back this signed JWT to the gateway. The STS of the access_token and this JWT can be the same or two different ones, based on the use case...
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I've gotten an offer for an advance on my recurring revenues ($3k MRR) and would need to repay the loan by giving up 5-10% of my monthly sales until it's paid off.

I could use the cash to pay for some design help, but not sure if I should just wait until my business generates enough money to hire a designer.

Anyone have experience with this?
The vape business? What product are you referring to, as I'm not familiar with anything they produce related to vapes. It's my understanding that they do not offer any consumer or b2b products at this time.
My iPhone is still burning my britches with a fast depletion battery.
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Having been a hiring manager previously, I will usually take the person with more experience.

The odds are lower that they'll leave than someone with less experience needing more time to become senior. There is no substitute for experience.

EDIT: To expound on this, as a manager, I will look out for the company, but also for you. If you have limited experience and want to climb the ladder, I will help find you a path internally and if one is unavailable (happens all the time), I will introduce you to opportunities outside the org to get you into higher roles and pay grades. Same deal if you're a senior person with "too much skill" for the role: tell me your goals, and I will help you get there. No one sticks around forever, and its unrealistic to ask people to do so.

This is, in my opinion, what a good manager is. Not someone who can code well, not someone who is a technical wizard, but someone who manages away problems outside of the team while helping individual contributors maximize their potential.
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I've been on a hip hop kick lately (Tyler the Creator, Vince Staples, Kendrick Lamar, and related Spotify recommendations). Usually lyrics are too distract me but for some reason, not with hip hop.
That is true with the analogy. I personally haven't seen a correlation between qualification fit and maintenance challenges for employees but it sounds like enraged_camel has had different experiences.

What I'm trying to tease apart are which are issues the manager causes and which are ones an over qualified employee would cause.
They've begun to cover the ground of immersive AR in patents. Maybe that's the value investors are seeing.
If I were a manager, and I were to optimize my bottom line, I'd discriminate by hiring young, single men.

Of course, this would be incredibly illegal and unethical.
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and what if the railroads looked at the 99 year lease offer and said, "no thanks fam"? What if is such a pointless game to play.
Either great salesmen/hypemen or their private demos are facemelting.
Somebody who loses his or her job after having got the mortgage could be in this situation.
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Look, if the final heat death of the universe is what kills us then that is fine. We'll have done as well as we could.

Okay. It's not fine, but it is the best we're at all likely to get.
I think that when one is called "overqualified" it's best to take it not as a criticism of what one is but of how one is marketing oneself. It's hard to humble oneself, but it's necessary to face the fact that you can't have it both ways - if you really want/need a job that doesn't require your education and experience, then you can't brag about your education and experience that is irrelevant. Pretending this is a matter of honesty, as people sometimes do, is a way to avoid admitting you can't control your ego.
I'm not Google, but my guess is they'd rather invest in the market to let it float the "experienced" people rather than take a gamble on a known "inexperienced" person and attempt to train them.

Maybe this is shitty, maybe it isn't, but it's probably more economical.
There are a ton of cryptocurrencies with practical real world use cases. Instant micro-payments is an interesting area where a more recent coin like IOTA could have application. Etherium smart contracts solve a lot of problems in the transfer of wealth. You can even get a credit card to spend your crypto if you want.
Wouldn't that just do a `git fetch` and therefore not have the issue?
That's one of my favorite levels too! Whenever I'm unsure which one to load up, that's almost inevitably going to be it :)
I'll take you seriously.

$1bn is a lot of money when put towards education and Google can make 5+ year investments when it comes to tech talent.
Cool game. In conclusion, I'd be better off making minimum wage at McDonald's or similar. Same pay, less risk. Either way my house is going to be repossessed by the bank so I'm fucked.
For the "block buy", that price includes building the rocket but not the launch.
This is a thing in Australia as well, and it's quite baffling. As far as I can tell, it's not even racism or genuine comms concerns etc, it's just that any work experience outside Australia gets discounted as "not real work".
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