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If you ever used a slow Atom Tablet with 4GB of RAM, you probably noticed how slow Webbrowsers are with a couple of tabs open.
I love reading articles on CodeProject while working in Visual Studio - that's pretty impossible on a Tablet though. RAM runs out real quick. Not to mention that Edge/Chrome experience is mediocre at best.
So I asked CodeProject on Facebook if I could make an UWP App that takes out everything but Text, Code and Images in order to minimize resource consumption and offline reading (cause my tablet has no 3G).
RAM Usage is down by more than 50% in most cases, which I call a success! Just had to inject some custom JS to resize text, images and code properly.
They gave me green light and this is what I got so far:
Article Low Res mode
Article Full Version
Search Results
Already in the store, but hidden (can only be found using store page url) until completion.
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EveryNameIsTakenEvenThisOne wrote: If you ever used a slow Atom Tablet with 4GB of RAM, you probably noticed how slow Webbrowsers are with a couple of tabs open.
No, but we used to have PCs with a 66 MHz Pentium and 16 meg RAM, not to mention what we had before that.
It's a real shame how wasteful and inefficient some things are.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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That's the main problem of profusion : it gives the wrong impression that things are getting cheap, if not free, and are endlessly available.
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Well, congratulations ... by the way, when will you publish your article, and source code here ?
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Quote: Spa and grooming services, temperature controlled rooms and a “dating service” for female cats are among the luxury offerings at Malaysia’s Catzonia – the “world’s first” five-star hotel for cats.
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«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Some rooms have a shower?
For cats? O....kay.
WiFi? That makes sense, several of our cats have insisted on access to the internet (some even had their own CP logins) and all cats can type fluently. Not unfortunately in English, but they are definitely touch typists. You may not want to touch the keys yourself after they have touch typed, but there you go...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: You may not want to touch the keys yourself after they have touch typed
Depends what they touched them with.
When ours wants feeding, he sits in front of or on the wife's keyboard until he gets the desired attention.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: he sits in front of or on the wife's keyboard
It's the "on" bit, really. I've smelled what goes out of that end when I clean his litter tray... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you really loved the cat you'd not care.*
* So many non-KSS responses buried in the litter box of memory.
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Today my native language comes to my help for the third time: Catzonia has only a different letter and basically the same sound of what we would call "the land of duck-heads". In nomen omen.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
modified 10-Feb-17 8:40am.
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Went to an "IT Expo" today. Stopped at a booth where they said they provide programming services. Had a sign that said "Senior Programmers: $14.99 an hour". Guy looked at me and said "you look like you have a question". I told him I wondered how the Hades he found senior programmers who would work for $15 an hour. Then I saw the sign that said outsource. Maybe Bob in Elbonia.
Rules for playing Javascript frameworks.
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't get out of the game.
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You get what you pay for.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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"You get what you pay for"
Occasionally.
Rules for playing Javascript frameworks.
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't get out of the game.
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True.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Many businesses make decisions based on quarter-to-quarter profits, so...  That ground-up rebuild further down the road doesn't matter.
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A horse and a donkey can't mate except on a fifth Sunday in February.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Depends on which is male and female  Apart from the whole 28 day problem 
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Jon McKee wrote: Many businesses make decisions based on quarter-to-quarter profits, so..
And so Agile programming was born!
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOzYou get what you pay for.
That's why when I buy stuff - like our car, camera, TV, etc. I always buy it from the most expensive vendor. I just know deep inside that paying those extra dollars will add to the purchase in subtle but glorious ways!
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Quote: "A sucker and his money are soon parted."
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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and I thought I was the only one that felt this way. 
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Have you bought many apple or adobe products?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thankfully, no! Yes, sometimes one does overpay.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It might be even worse. If they're charging $15/hour, that means the actual "senior" dev is making a fraction of that. (About a third, based on the last fraction I heard) 
TTFN - Kent
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