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But it is still isolated, and out of the mainstream. Whereas Britain is the centre of the universe. It always has been. It is where everything of significance originated back in the 19th century before spreading out to the rest of the world. It just takes so long for news to get to the Antipodes. For instance, one day they will learn that 40Kph on a three-lane dual carriageway is equivalent to a man with a red flag walking in front of the car.
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Excuse me! I'll have you know we have telegraphs and running hot and cold water. While riding my velocipede the past week I even saw one of those new motorized carriage things chuffing down the street.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You also have
1) superb, dirt cheap public transport
2) some incredible scenery
3) the best cinema seats I've sat in
4) the most resilient people I've ever met - Marysville Vic after the fire
5) the hottest weather I've been in - 47.6 degC
6) the best 4-day hospital stay I've had - snapped Achilles tendon
I love the place.
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Chris Maunder wrote: An extra service I should sign up for so I can give them more money
Oh sure, you could be a total idiot and ask them for financial advice! I tried that once, purely for amusement purposes, some teenager then tried to sell me every insurance product in their portfolio, he was almost in tears when we left without committing to anything.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I've got a very sturdy mattress you can hide it under for nothing! Well nothing plus a little commission, obviously!
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Chris Maunder wrote: to basic speed and performance.
Chris, I have never experienced basic speed or performance with this site, but I still love the site. Love is blind I guess. 
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Slacker007 wrote: Chris, I have never experienced basic speed or performance with this site
Really? What sort of page load times are you seeing?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Homepage, first view - 4.7s to 7.858s. 55.6% of the requestes are for images with Java script coming in at 20.6% of the time.
Once pages are cached, it goes a little faster. The biggest hit in time that I notice, and have noticed this for a few years now, is the amount of time it can take to get returned back to the thread, after replying to someone. I don't have exact numbers on this but it is very noticeable, sometimes I never get returned. This happens either at home or at work.
I wasn't trying to offend you, but I thought it odd that you would point out another site's misgivings, in regards to speed and performance, when in my opinion, this site is not always a jet fighter.
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Just as some extra info, being someone accessing the site from Cambridge UK - I have never had any speed issues with regards to this site.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Could be.
However when I run the test, being from New York, USA and I am using the latest version of Chrome, and on a cable internet connection, it can be bloody slow. But like I said, I love this site, always have, and I really don't care if it is slow.
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Richard Deeming wrote: Are you using your ISP's DNS servers, or something else?
Wow, an awesome question.
I just asked and our company here, uses the same ISP as I have at home, which would account for the similarity in user experience between home and office. Time Warner
The test returned back this for CDN's used:
CDN's Used
ajax.googleapis.com : Google
dj9okeyxktdvd.cloudfront.net : Amazon CloudFront
www.google-analytics.com : Google
pagead2.googlesyndication.com : Google
atdmt-a.akamaihd.net : Akamai
c.betrad.com : Akamai
secure.img-cdn.mediaplex.com : Akamai
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What's interesting is we moved all images / script requests onto Amazon CloudFront specifically to speed that stuff up. Yet 55% of the time is spent on them? Hmmm.
When I access from Australia the site's pretty damn good. However, 2 data points means absolutely nothing.
Slacker007 wrote: I wasn't trying to offend you, but I thought it odd that you would point out another site's misgivings
Actually I knew I was setting myself up and was actually interested to see if anyone commented. You did, which means I have a handle on a perf issue now which means I can work to improve it.
Interested in helping us iron out some kinks? It won't hurt a bit...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Interested in helping us iron out some kinks?
Anyway I can.
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Slacker007 wrote: Chris, I have never experienced basic speed or performance with this site, but I still love the site. Love is blind I guess.
Hey be careful what you say, we don't need him testing the limits of your blind love.
Next thing you know he'll take away our ability to use symbols and newlines 
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Chris Maunder wrote: These guys are managing my money.
At least they're not spending it on drugs proper website design 
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Chris Maunder wrote: No full-stop/periods, no commas, no question marks or apostrophes. I couldn't even put a newline in the text box.
It was just for security http://xkcd.com/327/[^] 
It is "da big bank" after all...
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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I assume they truncate your money and not round it to avoid periods?
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And then route all the truncated fractions to this guy's[^] payslip?
"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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So here's a terrible thought.... Do any CP contributors we know work for that bank?
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Judging from some of the articles I've deleted recently, possibly.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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They're not so daft.
You need lots of symbols for "&$#@ YOU!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Chris, you know what the cockney rhyming slang "Barclay's" means?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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