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Hey that's me! I was being a little too cute and flippant when I said that (I forgot I was in interview mode and not talk to colleague mode) but I stand by the idea that from a reg…

You're not wrong about GC becoming more common in games, as you say Unreal has a GC and so does Unity. Unreal Engine's GC at least is pretty custom. A lot of effort has been put in…

Wanted to jump back in here now that new public information is available, for August 2019 there was a daily average of 8MM peak concurrent players. https://na.leagueoflegends.com/e…

In 2014 Riot released numbers of 7.5MM peak concurrent players for League of Legends (off a MAU 67MM) and in 2016 reported a MAU of 100MM (but no new concurrency figures). Those ar…

For context the current CCU makes it the 1,898th most played game on steam right now (out of 10,772 games that have at least one player). The drop off comes very quickly! 1st most …

It looks like autocorrect wasn't sent in the clear at least according to one report. This[1] report on this incident (commissioned by the wallet creators) makes me skeptical that a…

Some podcasts do algorithmic auction style ad sales with targeting based off geolocation on the downloading ip address. This works by generating a new audio file for each download.…

I'm in a similar position. I was thinking about finding a new smaller place in the west side perhaps one with an in unit laundry or better air-conditioning. Looking around I've rea…

I wonder if this could be more easily adopted by Silicon Valley style startups if this ownership was of what would normally be the employee option pool rather than the whole compan…

I wrote a short paper about propaganda and spy antics in Eve Online in 2009: http://memeover.arkem.org/2009/12/information-operations-in-... Though if you're after Eve Online war s…

Australia's superannuation is more like the US 401k but with a Government mandated minimum contribution level. Individuals are free to pick their own fund providers or even create …

It's the same in Australia, New Zealand, UK and probably other places too. 30 year fixed rate mortgages are probably the exception rather than the rule in most places.

Riot Games does, we're hiring: https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/welcome

At the game studios that I'm familiar with the term "game developer" refers to anyone working on the game and not just the programmers. So an artist or writer would generally be co…

I don't think it's a problem at all except for the small issue that PUBG is an Unreal Engine game and there's a possibility that Epic's inside information about PUBG benefited thei…

It's an escape room: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_room

This is both for people using tools and people accessing servers and databases directly. Logging into production servers is audited and triggers alarms. There's basically no-one wh…

Google has amazing controls and audit capabilities around access to customer data. When I worked on the security team there the number of people who could access a specific person'…

For interest here's where you can find the relevant motions being referred to in the article: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000130817918... The ones being referre…

I don't think that the officers did anything wrong. I didn't like that the officers only decided to search my vehicle after they knew I wasn't a US citizen and then abandoned the s…

I had an experience with a border patrol checkpoint in Arizona in 2009. I was driving from Yuma, AZ towards Vegas (probably on US-95) in a rented brown Prius with Washington state …

Not all games jobs are like this. I entered the games industry just as I was turning 30 and it has been rewarding both in terms of type of work and compensation. Maybe I'm not typi…

This is great advice for information security professionals as well, especially vulnerability researchers and other appsec types!

Maybe they're referring to the 200k income threshold for the other accredited investor test?

In a somewhat similar vein in 2009 I wrote about how useful Twitter is for spreading disinformation. Some of the points I made were somewhat mitigated by Twitter product changes bu…