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So, what are they really offering?
Wikipedia Article which has a section on reading rates.
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Seems to be a chunk of JS and an API. How they will monetize that escapes me though. Especially in light of free options like Spreeder[^] or Beeline[^]
TTFN - Kent
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I believe there is an upcoming Android app.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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FWIW I had no trouble with the fastest option on the page, 500WPM; but as a 60-80 page/hour (mass market fiction paperback books) reader I'm already in that general speed bucket so I don't think it really says anything.
On the other hand, that demo felt more like the keyword hunting I do when looking for something than reading for comprehension; and while I can go several times faster doing that my retention levels are much lower.
On the gripping hand I really would be interested in trying a demo at 1000 WPM and doing a comprehension test afterwards.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: On the gripping hand
I see you're a "Mote in God's Eye" fan. Great book and the second two, too.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Great! There are still people in this world who know that reading is more than knowing the alphabet.
But when the text to be read has no content, what do you want to retain for comprehension?
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Developers and managers share some of the silliest answers to technical interview questions that they’ve heard - or given "Visual Basic is a perfectly capable language for writing system-level tools"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Visual Basic is a perfectly capable language for writing system-level tools"
Yes, in the same way that a boat is a capable sea-level tool.
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Quote:
Me: How do you kill a zombie?
Candidate: With a chainsaw?
Seems like a perfectly sensible answer to me. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah, he should have gotten the job. Unless they were looking for "headshot", but any solution good enough for Ash is good enough for me.
TTFN - Kent
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Don't forget the double-tap. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Twice now Apple has bypassed Snow Leopard when it patched newer editions I think I've heard this story somewhere else
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Wow, supporting an OS for a total of 4.5 years - that really sucks.
I guess Apple really don't give an elephant for their desktop users any more. And some MS users are still complaining about XP being retired after, what, 13 years.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A diverse set of real-world Java benchmarks shows Google is fastest, Azure is slowest, and Amazon is priciest I put my money on the altocumulus lenticularis
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As insecure as passwords generally are, they're not going away anytime soon. Every year you have more and more passwords to deal with, and every year they get easier and easier to break. You need a strategy. 1235 <- There, saved you the trouble of reading
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I can't read green text on black. Maybe that's a security feature.
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Yeah, that was mighty-dog horrid. I ended up using an extension to change the colour scheme just so I didn't go blind.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Or to write your passwords down on a piece of paper and secure that piece of paper.
Yeah, that's the strategy I use nowadays. If only I could decipher my hand-writing... That's a level of extra security I actually don't need.
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Generate a Guid.
Presto.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Don't laugh. I just checked into a hostel in Porvenir in Tierra Del Fuego, and the Wifi password was a GUID.
Still, here they change them - I've been in other places where the password is printed on posters and stuck on the wall. Obvious it hasn't been changed in ages.
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And write it on the bottom of your foot to keep it handy 
TTFN - Kent
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Q29udmVydCBhIHNlbnRlbmNlIHRvIGJhc2U2NA
(Convert a sentence to base64)
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Put down the jQuery, step away from the non-relational database: we have more important things to talk about. And you fancy-pants CSS kids can get off my lawn!
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is still awesome; it allows me to have an "empty" TABLE cell with a border, like it's supposed to. 
But by no means am I a Web Developer  ; I do real work.
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Great fun to read that. He could add another such funny article on website security of the 1990ies...
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