If you suggest withdrawing from Berne, expect complaints from export industries even other than entertainment. Withdrawal from Berne implies withdrawal from the WTO, and countries are likely to impose prohibitive import tariffs across the board on non-WTO members.

So by indie you appear to mean relying exclusively on sideloading for deployment as opposed to a download store with multiple developers' software, even the one run by the hardware manufacturer. Then let me restate my previous comment to confirm to your definition:

Sometimes you have to become not indie just to get a game published. I'm told that only a commercially insignificant number of people have machines that 1. are connected to a monitor big enough for couch multiplayer and 2. can run sideloaded software. Retail consoles can't do the latter, and I've read that gaming HTPCs are virtually nonexistent.

I'm not sure what sort of hyperbole you mean by "nobody", but I still see same-screen multiplayer in households in my sample set.

That's true in the same technical sense that Denys Vlasenko sues violators of the BusyBox license not for "GPL violation" but instead for copyright infringement. If the only way to program without a license is to violate Title 17, then in practice that's the same thing as banning "programming without a license".

One of the rules at the time was not to use hardware that was still being produced. The fat PS3 had been discontinued in favor of a new model without Other OS support. Assuming hypothetically that George Hotz had not exposed PS3 flaws to give Sony cause to disable Other OS in 3.21, where would one find a replacement for a fat PS3 console whose hardware had failed?

Only with the $99 certificate, and only if it hasn't expired. Otherwise, you're stuck with the simulator.

The policies disallow programming for consoles as a hobby at the same time that they disallow publishing the programs for sale.

Please state the points that I should learn about the language in order for the reasons to become obvious to me. I do know that not all JavaScript interpreters in use support the semantics of "use strict".

Is there one bigint library on which programmers have standardized, or will three different libraries that I include each bring in their own separate bigint library dependency?

Once I do start to learn the language, how should I go about determining whether the extent to which I have learned the language is enough to allow me not to make a fool of myself here on Slashdot?

Several other languages have a 64-bit integer type. C++ does. Java does. SQL does. JavaScript doesn't. What's the best practice for a program written in JavaScript to represent the BIGINT type of MySQL?

You can't even start on iOS coding until you turn 18.

One stupidity is global variables by default unless you use var every single time. Another is the lack of integers bigger than 52 bits, after which double precision floating point starts dropping integral bits. If your data is full of 64-bit integers, tough.

Then explain the "KERNAL" of the Commodore 64.

Yes we do, as seen in Sony v. Hotz.

The problem comes when computing platforms have policies against programming at an amateur level. Platforms like iOS require purchase and renewal of a certificate before you can even run software you wrote on a machine you own. Video game consoles are even worse; even professionals new to the field may have trouble getting a devkit.

Except hiring managers trend to use the former as a proxy for the latter. They want to call previous employers to verify that a candidate's code works and makes sense.

I can communicate technical thoughts effectively, just not necessarily the "softer" thoughts that will get me past corporate HR.