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Summary: A few days ago, some Chromecast-supporting Android apps
started crashing upon launch.  Other Android apps, notably YouTube,
remain unaffected, as do iOS apps and Chromecast support in Chrome
(see table below).  Today, I discovered that these crashes go away
when I remove the SONOS BRIDGE device that connects my SONOS audio
system to the same network.

My hypothesis: There is some interaction between the Chromecast
device-discovery logic and the SONOS bridge's presence on the network
that causes the problem.  The most likely explanation for why these

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Tom Moertel <[email protected]>
2013-12-14

The following proof is a solution to the exercise I offered to readers
in the following blog post:

"A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack"
http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html

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Tom Moertel <[email protected]>
2013-12-16

We are given the following problem:

    Given a text file with 999,999 lines, one number per line,
    numbers in random order from 1 to 1,000,000 but a single number is
    missing, figure out what number is missing.

    Source: http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html#comment-1165807320