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I thought government ID would be a silver bullet. We have a relatively unique family name, and my father should be an exact first+last match on the transaction, and my ID first name is an exact match for my account name. Should I just open a support ticket every week until I win the support lottery? Sounds like a recipe for irritating the wrong person and getting it manually locked. lol.

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I get the impression that the process isn't special for me, particularly given everyone else's own personal horrors, as detailed in this thread.

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My user name is a common real-life first name with no numbers or symbols. So, since username transfers to a specific new account are not possible, I would almost certainly lose the name to a sniper with a script. I know there's a whole industry around that practice.

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I have a 13 year old minecraft account. I've been unable to migrate it because I don't have the transaction ID. I don't have the email (I wasn't very good at managing an inbox when I was 14), and the bank that it was bought with no longer exists, even if they had more than 7 years of records retention. I told support I can provide government IDs for myself and my father (the name on the card, presumably), but I got told, basically, to get stuffed. TID or bust.

My only guess on what to do next is to try to find someone with an inside at Mojang to workaround the user-hostile process, but I've had no luck. If anyone knows how to workaround this, I'd appreciate it.

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As a SWE, my preferred export format would be a folder with a Dockerfile. I'm not sure how GPUs work with docker, but if I could just run the container on a machine with a gpu, or deploy it into a k8s cluster with an affinity for a node with a gpu, that would be my ideal. I'm not sure how I'd want model drift to be addressed, so being able to pull down and deploy new versions would be something to consider as well.

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Can you go into further detail about your betting pattern?

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I switched from a permanent role to freelancing last November, so I'm relatively new to this, but I'd be glad to explain what I do.

I make my skill set clear to my clients. "I can do this, but I'm not familiar with XYZ, so it will take longer than usual." I bill for reading documentation-- just because I'm not writing code, doesn't mean I'm not working. I made my skills clear, and they still decided that they want me to do it, so reading documentation comes with the territory.

I also try to provide an estimate with granularity of half a day (4 hours).

I don't bill for the time spent generating invoices, as that seems hopelessly recursive. I keep notes of what times I worked during the week with a granularity of 10 minutes. All of my invoices include timestamp ranges and a note consisting of 1 to 3 sentences describing what I was doing during that period.

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“Simply appending conventional steps, specified at a high level of generality,” to a method already “well known in the art” is not “enough” to supply the “ ‘inventive concept’ ” needed to make this transformation [into a patent-eligible invention].

How does this differ from/alter existing law? Is this ruling just a clarification?

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Hey. I was in a similar boat. I am US-based, so I'm not sure how much relevance my story has to you. I turn 19 in two months.

I've been programming for leisure for years. I got my first job programming in 10th grade, and loved it. When I graduated a year later, I went to a semester of college.

It's not that college was easy-- it was difficult for me. I just didn't care as much for the subjects I was being tought, and didn't try to succeed. It was time for me to pay for the second semester. I managed to pay for the first one with liquid, but that wasn't going to happen again.

My parents strongly discouraged not going to college, although they are biased in that matter; my mother has dual masters degrees, and my father has a Ph.D, and their degrees are very important to their career pathes.

The job I was at wasn't enough to sustain myself. I was underpaid, the commute was long, and upper management didn't agree on the value that I was adding to the company, despite direct management having a conflicting opinion. Anecdote: one of my friends that worked at a nearby grocery store who's job consisted of literally putting fruit on shelves was making more than me, which made me a bit bitter.

I couldn't find anything locally, since I lived in a remote, rural US town, so I started applying to various surrounding cities. The first job I applied to, I got an offer, and I took it. It was fun, a great learning experience, and I even got a promotion to mid-level developer. I've since left for a job at a similar position at a startup, mostly for fun. It has turned out to be much harder than I expected, but that's OK- challenges are fun.

I have felt incredibly valued by my coworkers and management. I feel successful, and I have no reason to regret my career choices.

My advice to you is to keep pushing forward. I feel like there isn't a HN consensus on this topic, but it is my opinion that there are few programming jobs that require a college education and do not provide an "or similar experience" clause, particularly within US-based startups. The majority of my employers haven't cared for a degree; they just want their employees to be good.[1]

Also, check out online freelancing sites such as oDesk and Elance. It's easy to get started, and I only saw one or two listings that required a degree in the three months I spent on oDesk. One of my contracts turned into the full time position that I have now.

[1] I may be susceptible to survivorship bias, as any employer that would agree to hire someone without a degree obviously wouldn't care for the degree.

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