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by arkem 3y ago
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 regular user perspective the security difference between a
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by arkem 7y ago
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 into it to allow developers to control he worst case
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by arkem 7y ago
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/en/news/game-updates/special-.
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by arkem 7y ago
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 are old stats but still useful for comparison. Disclaimer: I w
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by arkem 7y ago
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 played game has 694,472 CCU (Counter-Strike: Global Offensiv
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by arkem 7y ago
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 autocorrect or Google was involved at all. I think some
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by arkem 7y ago
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 think the industry calls it "dyanmic ad insertion&qu
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by arkem 7y ago
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 realized that rent control has me paying significantl
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by arkem 7y ago
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 company. That way you'd still be compatible with venture capi
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by arkem 8y ago
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 stories I'd instead reco
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by arkem 8y ago
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 their own superannuation funds (with some caveats).
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by arkem 8y ago
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.
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by arkem 8y ago
Riot Games does, we're hiring: https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/welcome
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by arkem 8y ago
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 considered a game developer but the studio&#x27
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by arkem 8y ago
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 their development of Fortnite. It's all
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by arkem 8y ago
It's an escape room: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_room
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by arkem 8y ago
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 who has "root" level access to a large number o
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by arkem 8y ago
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's data without an audit record and an alert being trigg
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by arkem 8y ago
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 referred to are: Proposal
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by arkem 8y ago
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 search once they saw my visa but I don't
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by arkem 8y ago
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 plates as I was flagged down by the border patrol. At the ch
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by arkem 9y ago
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 typical but I also don't think people should write off
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by arkem 9y ago
This is great advice for information security professionals as well, especially vulnerability researchers and other appsec types!
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by arkem 9y ago
Maybe they're referring to the 200k income threshold for the other accredited investor test?
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by arkem 9y ago
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 but I still think it holds up as an article/paper. http:
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by arkem 9y ago
He wasn't paying down any of the principal, presumably because the loan forgiveness program would take care of it. > Because of his 8.25 percent interest rate, which he could not refinance due to loan rules, even those higher paymen
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by arkem 9y ago
Doesn't seem too far fetched[1] if you read it as a nice house under 200k within an hour of Chicago. I don't know enough about Chicago to know exactly how far our an hour's drive is or to know exactly what 'nice' me
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by arkem 9y ago
I'm pretty sure Stripe and Paypal are Patreon's two payment processors, so I'm not surprised that they're having the same issues.
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by arkem 9y ago
Maybe not on the same scale but there's the Australian Government Future Fund[1] which is a sovereign wealth fund founded in 2006. It's about 10% of the size of Norway's so not especially impressive but it does exist. [1] ht
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by arkem 9y ago
I've read the reporting of Snowden's leaks and I have at least as much exposure to the inner workings of the five eyes as Snowden did and I have come to a different conclusion. I do not believe that Google is voluntarily handing o

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