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Microsoft doesn't do well naming its browsers.
People don't usually want to live on the Edge, i.e. you should be using Chrome!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Microsoft doesn't do well naming writing its browsers.
FTFY!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Microsoft doesn't do well naming writing its browsers consumer products.
Sin tack ear lol
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modified 25-Jan-17 10:05am.
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I'd disagree with that to an extent: Visual Studio and Excel are truly wonderful. SQL Server is pretty damn good (but VS and MSSQL don't meet your revised category).
Win 7 - a consumer product if ever there was one - was very good, The Halo series was well worth a go on XBox, Flight Sim, Kinect ...
I think it's just when they forget to decide where to go and what to do that they lose sight of what users actually want. And then they produce total cr@p.
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that's why I revised, agree their developer apps are OK.
Win 7 was dev and consumer friendly, ... they took a huge part of the dev friendly away 8 onwards - to heavily focusing it [badly] at the consumer.
Even though stuff works, 10 really only got worse for devs.
Same was true for xp: dev and consumer friendly - which is why it still lasts.
2k was too broken - spent as much time fixing [reinstalling] the os as debugging apps,
vista was sh*t bolted on the 50% of the 2k inner core that was not fixed due to a rush to market,
luckily they completed the re-core and cleaned up integration to interface/devices in 7.
Sin tack ear lol
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Lopatir wrote: Microsoft doesn't do well naming writing its browsers consumer products.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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this
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a
test
of
the
preview
box
Nope, seems to work fine with Edge... 
And it is my default browser...
Tabbing did cause the cursor to disappear, probably went to a different control ("Click to edit signature"). A click back in the edit box restored it...
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0.No.. real developers use Tor ! No sorry that is for the weed order  , I mean real developers use Chrome, Firefox, IE , Opera, Safari !
I fall off the Edge  ing !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Developer consumes network filter (8)
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Permeate?
Developer "Perme" (though I'd want an "i" in there)
Consumes "Ate"
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Nope (I'd want an "i" in there, too!  )
Slogans aren't solutions.
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You have no idea how relieved I am!
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OK - so you win. 
What's the answer? I'm nowhere...
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Bit surprised no-one got this one ...
Developer = CODER
Consumes
Net = LAN => coLANder
Filter = Colander (an essential for every kitchen and the most fashionable headgear around).
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Oh ... bother (he said, remembering the KSS rule at the last moment)
I had CODER, but I got stuck trying to fit WEB, NET, or ATE in there ... 
Well done! Good clue.
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Oh man,
I had this and wrote the answer.. Forgot to Press "post Message".
Came to check after the meeting.. 
Anyway I escape from Tomorrow posting
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I am looking for data about the distribution of floating-point operations - what percentage are additions/subtractions, what percentage are multiplications, etc.
My Google-fu isn't working today, so I would appreciate any pointers.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: My Google-fu isn't working today, so I would appreciate any pointers.
double *px, *py;
float *pf; here you are.
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I can't understand this. You want to know how many addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations are performed in the World?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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42
The time unit is arbitrary.
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Sounds like a title for a PHD thesis....crack on!
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I'd need crack to want to read it!
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Is was on the list to do, but it fell through the cracks.... 
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I remember reading that someone had performed such an analysis, but I can't find any pointers to it.
The idea was that additions/subtractions are more common than multiplications, which in turn are much more common than divisions/square root. This implies that optimizing the less common operations is likely to give a lower return than optimizing the more common operations.
As I said, my Google-fu is non-functional today.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If the less common operations are dramatically slower than the common ones, it still may be worth it to optimize them. Take a look at the speed comparisons at Integer and Floating-Point Arithmetic Speed vs Precision[^].
Consider the Core i7-4770 floating point graph for 32-bit operations, indicating multiplication takes about 3 times as long as addition. If addition occurs 75% of the time and multiplication 25%, you will spend the same time on each.
The decision might be influenced by which operation would be easier to optimize and which would produce the greater gain once optimized. (I see Jochen Arndt gave similar advice. This puts some numbers to it for you.)
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