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What's the point in hashing the IP + salt then, just let each client generate a random nonce and use that as the key

You thought perhaps they commented a list of random unrelated HN submissions?

The comment they replied to literally said "Let's take a second to remember that copyright is the reason ~every child doesn't have access to ~every book ever written."

"There really are, though"

- Me

What? No. An ad hominem is "I think your argument is wrong because your face is stupid". "This is bad software because it looks like it's made by amateurs" isn't attacking their character, it's attacking their ability to write good software, which is highly relevant.

A lot of people are getting really hung up on this. "Modern Rust" is just current Rust. Once Rust moves on, that will be modern Rust and what we once called modern will no longer be modern. Like all things. You might as well get upset that somebody said something will happen "tomorrow" because in 24 hours it won't be "tomorrow" anymore.

You said you don't see anything wrong with that definition and then provided a completely unrelated definition

No? Most businesses sell products or services, their primary source of revenue isn't bribes from a single company. That's pretty rare actually.

The text shows up white for me.

If she forgot the square root of -1 was undefined, she’d never write a test for it.

Uh...

It's only a limitation if your app is currently written in Javascript, which seems like a silly assumption. If your app is currently written in Rust, Electron has the equally big downside of "you have to rewrite your app's backend in Javascript"

...hence why they should give you that option if your paid account expires. It feels like people are being intentionally obtuse in this thread

When I tried it it worked pretty well, except the stream lagged really far behind. It was usually a couple minutes behind live for me

I don't understand the distinction. If the UK is allowing tests of driverless cars, it must be allowing them on the roads, and of course "in January" means "starts in January", what else would it mean

The use of it is free. It costs you no more to use the service than it would to not use it

Also, I hear you can send e-mail claiming to be from anyone!

He was spending $208/month for 20Mbps? What the hell is going on in Austin?

So is your argument actually that it's not necessary for people to be able to do this? Or is it that it's not nearly in-depth enough. If you're arguing the latter, I'm pretty sure everyone agrees; this was described as his version of fizzbuzz, to weed out people who literally just can't program. If you're arguing the former, that seems insane. Knowing how a TCP/IP network works is great, but if you're incapable of writing code to implement your knowledge, you're not very useful

Are you kidding? If I can buy the rocks at $4 per rock and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to sell them to somebody later at $6 per rock, absolutely I'll keep buying the rocks.

You really don't need to take some developers not knowing this quite so personally.

It's not like scientific notation precludes that. 1.234567E+06 = 1234567, but it's also at a glance obviously around 1 million

Tools like web browsers?

I think you're confusing the glitches a bit (or I am). Long-winded explanations of both, assuming I understand them correctly:

The TAS version does a trick in the Deku Tree that results in the one set of bars in the tower escape being up. There's a bitmask in memory that dungeons can use to store flags about whatever they want. One of those flags in the Deku Tree dungeon is whether the ladder in the slingshot room has been shot down. That same flag in the dungeon escape indicates that Zelda has already raised a particular set of bars at one of the tower entrances. Because you warp straight from the tree to the tower, it keeps the flags set, so if the ladder was shot down in the tree the one set of bars is already up in the tower and you don't need to wait for Zelda to open them. This saves some time because she's slow, but in theory you'd still need to run all the way to the door.

Luckily, there's a second glitch that involves falling off the edge of the tower. Normally the game detects when you fall too far and warps you back to the top. If you hit a boulder in mid-air, it resets the fall counter, and you can manage to fall off one bridge and land on the bridge below. The TAS does this twice to fall down to the bridge that has the open gate, so Link can then run right through the entrance without waiting for Zelda (she catches up when you enter a new area). This is the part that Cosmo was describing as impossible for a human, because the boulders are random so you can't really time it such that you hit one in mid-air at the right spot to reset the counter.

The void warp (the new trick used in the WW) is kind of related in that it involves falling off the tower, but that's about it. The entire setup is such that the game detects that you've fallen off the bridge at the exact moment that you hit the loading zone for the inside of the tower. The game tries to reset your position back to the bridge you fell off of, and tries to put you inside the tower, so you end up in the tower but outside the normal rooms, so you just fall all the way to ground level (which is where you wanted to be anyway) and walk to the next loading zone

"just unfamiliar to people who aren't familiar with it". That was deep

It sounds like you're pretty confused about most people's reasons for caring about money. Making sure you have enough money to not need to worry about money is pretty much the entire goal for most people

I see this complaint an awful lot considering Stack Exchange literally tells you to go somewhere else if you feel that way: http://unix.stackexchange.com/help/editing

> Maybe market share has dropped a bit

This is the definition of "becoming less ubiquitous". It doesn't have to mean they're falling apart and about to be irrelevant, they just have less of a market share than they did

I can see how your empty website will be crushing their fully-functional one any day now

I'm in an OS class right now; my screen while reading this: http://i.imgur.com/MVvqy.png

You mean this one? http://superuser.com/a/419167

It wasn't on SO, but in any case, all the edits did were fix spelling/capitalization; why would that be bad?