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Our primate cousins spend 6 hours a day gnashing fruits and the occasional monkey carcass—all made possible by the same type of big teeth and large jaws our early ancestors had. At least until we got bacon
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Not the slicing/pounding, but the cooking made the difference; the biggest change was 400k years ago.
Site wrote: “What did humans do before they regularly had access to cooking?” he wondered.
They orderded a Big Mac using the internet.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches. OK, now they're just messing with us
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I'm sorry I missed this earlier...
This is _the_ YEAR of the Linux SWITCH DESKTOP!!!! Squeeee!!!!!!
WE now return you to your previous programming...
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R is decidedly the most popular statistical/data analysis language in use today. R Tools for Visual Studio brings together the power of R and Visual Studio in a convenient and easy to use plug-in that’s free and Open Source. My timbers are shivering!
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“As pages increase in complexity, they often require multiple trips that create delays that really add up,” explains Ravi Netravali, one of the researchers, in a press release. “Our approach minimizes the number of round trips so that we can substantially speed up a page’s load-time.” Yes, please
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Our approach minimizes the number of round trips so that we can substantially speed up a page’s load-time
I worked for a company in 1998 that was working on the same thing. I'm serious.
The company created a server zipper. It was going to fabulously zip up data on server and ship to special people running our web performance pack.
The company went out of bidness. 
Also, more recently Amazon's Silk browser does the same thing by "zipping" up common content from common sites on Amazon servers and then Silk has fewer connect, obtain, disconnect overhead.
Also, 35% faster?
This is 2016. I'm looking for like 2000% faster.
EDIT:
Oh wow I found a PC Magazine entry detailing the package:
PC Mag - Google Books[^]
(Blaze Web Performance Pack)
Can't believe it.
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raddevus wrote: I'm looking for like 2000% faster.
Yes, please 
HTTP/2 (aka SPDY) should also help, but it needs the browser updated. This is supposedly a "free" speedup.
TTFN - Kent
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If you really want to speed up things, throw away the developments of the last 2 decades. Write the pages in simple HTML without those tons of css and javascript, animated images, flash, and all that crap. That would reduce the load time effectively to the ping time.
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Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin is one of the 17 software development visionaries who met at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in Utah in February 2001 to discuss the various lightweight development methods of the time. The result of that meeting would become known as the Agile Manifesto. Which means it's about time for the next Silver Bullet, isn't it?
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No retrospective - therefore nothing learned - therefore no improvement.
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Purr-fect 
TTFN - Kent
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Called InSight, the mission was originally supposed to launch this month, sending a lander to the Red Planet. Now Curiosity has time to get to the Schiaparelli crater
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Packaged as an Atom Editor, the new Ionide IDE enables F# developers to code across platforms with Microsoft's popular functional language. I've got nothing snarky to say about F# (that hasn't been said before)
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In a frank Reddit AMA, Microsoft's founder reveals he may not be the supervillain that open source advocates have made him out to be. "If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed."
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I mean, why not. He has earned $80bn+ and I think, now is the right time for him to say, we should adapt to the need of going open source.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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BG said "If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed."
This has been proven time and again by :
1. wikipedia: free online encyclopedia which beat all other encyclopedias
2. OpenOffice / LibreOffice
3. Linux of all sorts.
What?
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raddevus wrote: wikipedia
Which (a) is full of malinformation, (b) suffers from wikiwars, and (c) semi-annually screams for my donations, or in other words, they want to get paid.
raddevus wrote: OpenOffice / LibreOffice
Is mostly a piece of crap, is mostly incompatible with much of MS Office documents. I've tried, believe me, I've tried. I so want to use it in an interoperative way with MS Office, but no can do. Why? Because SHOW ME THE MONEY!
raddevus wrote: Linux of all sorts
Much of the "free" development of Linux is funded by corporations, including RedHat and Google. Oh, and now Microsoft, too.
Yeah, that's what I thought. It takes money to make free stuff.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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Good points. You are probably right.
The wikipedia thing is very interesting history though.
They honestly destroyed Brittanica and Microsoft Encarta with that free stuff.
Also, I thought the misinformation part was gone now.
If it's on the Internet, it's true, right?
Because if it's on the Internet then enough people _think_ it's true and that makes it true, right?
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Quote: The Internet commentariat will always deny it, but personal evolution happens.
So true, on both counts.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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Microsoft owes its position thanks to piracy. AFAIK, the average pirate does not pay for his/her product.
Fifteen years ago most consumer PC's were running an illegal version of Windows, as well as some companies; that is what got them their market-share in the first place, and that is why one "free" OS won from another "free" OS.
..and no, I'm not going into the quote; any regular school that teaches something like trade or economics can explain why it is wrong.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol in first game of historic man vs machine match Our last hope: EMP 
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If you have a web app that’s currently available publicly via URL, you can easily bring it to Windows 10 using Windows App Studio’s Hosted Web App template. Or... you could just open it in a browser
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or... you could just open it in a browser
Come now, how many people know how to use a browser? That's a power user feature!
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