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nlco··on Practical Nerd: The hidden price of “free”
How do you set spotify to offline mode (without completely disabling wifi)?
nlco··on How To Safely Store A Password
Salts are suppose to be considered public. For the most part, they are defenses against rainbow tables and to make an attacker have crack each password individually.
nlco··on Sleep Sort
your code can be simplified a bit:

    function sleep_sort (inputs) {
      function child (number) {
        setTimeout(function () {console.log(number)}, Math.pow(2,number))
      }

      for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; ++i)
        child(inputs[i])
    }

    sleep_sort(process.argv.slice(2));
nlco··on Formerly good at math, but I've lost my skills. Any advice to grow them back?
not quite, 48÷(2(9+3)) = 2, but 48÷2(9+3) = 288

to clarify: PEMDAS is the order of operations. so parenthesis first: 48÷2(9+3) = 48÷2(12) then multiplication and division (they have the same precedence): 48÷2(12) = 24*12 = 288

for another reference: http://www.google.com/search?q=48%C3%B72(9%2B3)

nlco··on I made a "ed simulator" in the URL
Someone suggested to make an ed simulator in one of the "HTML5 History" abuses, so I went for it over the weekend. Decided I'd share it with you guys. (I never actually used ed since it was way before my time, so if there is anything that I implemented wrong, let me know)
nlco··on Great Men Keep Journals
How is it unsafe? (asking because I don't know, not to contradict)
nlco··on Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup
Well as a college student who went on a 2 month coco pebble binge (and only ate that because of sheer laziness), I didn't feel significant effects on brain power. But it does trash your body and leaves you feeling lethargic and lose motivation to actually do anything productive. I think the latter effects are just as dangerous as reduced "brain effectiveness". (this is just my experience, certainly not any scientifically proven study)
nlco··on Zombie.js -- headless full-stack testing using node.js
it runs on node.js (a server side software), not a browser. So no need to worry about hijacking someones ip.
nlco··on Mormon Church website a good example of SEO
thats actually not what separation of church and state refers to. What it means is that no church is suppose to run the government, voters are allowed (and suppose to) vote according to their beliefs, including religion. And religions are allowed to have a stance on issues.

The rest sure, you can interpret it that way, but most mormons are very nice people. They don't take the scripture literally and is instead suppose to be symbolisms.

Actually only in the very beginning of the Book of Mormon is the dark skin used to identify "sinners". Later on, as in past the first 50 pages, skin color was a non-issue.

And finally, women can get past their 20s and be perfectly fine people. They can never marry and be normal people. LDS people do put a strong emphasis, if possible, on a traditional "stay home mom and working father", but that is not sexism.

nlco··on Mormon Church website a good example of SEO
"Any group which sees gays, blacks, and women as fundamentally inferior loses its case for respect in my mind."

It's a good thing the LDS don't believe that. They have actively come out to defend against gay harassment. The injustice to blacks was fixed back when slavery was abolished. Men are taught to cherish and respect women, not that they are inferior. Stop your trolling.

nlco··on Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances
perhaps they are trying to counteract the inevitable backlash from the wikileaks story?
nlco··on Pong written in both flash and HTML5. Left side is flash, right side is HTML5.
windows 7 and chrome with the same results. there is noticeable jerkiness as well as the ball flickering
nlco··on Tell HN: Please stop offering your services
A compromise also could be a hn irc channel, people ask for help there and people qualified (or otherwise) can help them out.
nlco··on Cracking the code
it appears they dont have anything on me (no cookie/javascript blocking, just vanilla chrome) and I do browse extensively. Anyone know why this might be happening?
nlco··on The reverse job applicant
as a member of generation Y, I wonder if you realize how hard it is to get a job.. especially as a teen. I can't go flipping burgers/menial labor because generation X has all the jobs. I can't go work for many tech companies because of degree/age requirements, they don't make exceptions for kids who have been programming in insert laundry list for over 6 years.

"We all knew that we were the first generation to be worse off than our parents" I may be young and naive, but from what I hear about the current state of economics (I even heard we went into a recession), things suck pretty bad for the people, like me, just starting to jump into the work force. But honestly I'd say each generation was better off than its previous one. So I have a cell phone. My cell phone probably has more computing power than the universities whole computer lab that my dad attended? And that my grandfather while my age didn't use a computer. I'd say being able to access all the worlds information among thousands of other things that have been made better makes mine and your generation better off. Gratitude is important too.

nlco··on RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
I really like the animations (except for the arm, I wish the words just "appeared" sort of like the music video for "heartless" by the fray). Does anyone know of a tool that can help us make this easier?
nlco··on Average teen sends 3,339 texts per month
it can be accurate, I think it just depends on the circumstances. I blew over 300 messages just yesterday. As for age, I just barely turned 18, but when I was in high school I would easily text at 2x or 3x that rate. Reasons it was so high can be attributed to not being challenged in school (so text in class), i could easily talk to all friends through the same medium (and multiple of them at a time), and its fairly easy to mass message to figure out plans.
nlco··on Help fund an open source Facebook alternative: Appleseed
is there any work on a common protocol yet? (mostly looking for a link)
nlco··on Chargify New Pricing
I agree, I'm working on a SaaS that is hopefully going to be deployed in a month where I was planning to use Chargify, but the $99/month seems hard to justify when I can just use paypal.
nlco··on Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.
It would manifest itself if you invest in your own company.
nlco··on Ask HN: What do you do to relax?
yup, this is why all my personal projects are 90% done. i'll finish the other 90% some other time.