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Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly
johnp. writes "A computer browser that is said to least quadruple surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday. Adnan Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian's College in Mullingar, central Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to develop the browser. Known as "XWEBS", the system works with an ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone line.
" A number of people had submitted this over the weekend - there's absolutely no hard data that I can find to go along with this, so if you find anything more on it, plz. post below - somehow 1500 lines of code per day, "every media player" built in doesn't ring true for me.
CTRL-C then CTRL-V...
you see, it's not that hard to make 1500 lines of code per day!
It then makes use of network magic. You mean no-one ever told you about the magic ?
Invoicing, Time Tracking, Reporting
Yes, unless you have one of these!
Three dits, four dits, two dits, dah!
Radio, radio, rah rah rah!
Yes, every Jan 13th, the Irish come together to celebrate 'St Slashdot Day' where everyone gets together, drinks caffeine and then posts bogus tech stories to make Taco and Hemos look silly.
Well, okay, they don't but it'd be nice if they did... instead of the year round crap.
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Jim: Yes, I --
PHB: Jim...I'm concerned about your performance.
Jim: Er, wha--
PHB: You write, what, 30 maybe 80 "eL Oh Cee" a day? Right?
Jim: Well, the TPS and project plans take --
PHB: Says here, that this 16 year old kid can write 1500 "eL Oh Cee" a day. What do you think about that?
PHB: Don't laugh...this is serious.
Jim: Sorry. I ment --
PHB: Jim, maybe you need to put in more hours. Reconsider your work habbits.
Jim: I work till 10 most nights...
PHB: Jim, it's not the hours it's how efficiently you handle them. I expect todays TPS on my desk by noon, along with a status report on each programming task you've done today.
Jim: It's 11 --
PHB: That's it Jim! Keep up the good work. In the meantime, see if you can increase that "eL Oh Cee" to, say, about a hundread. It's good to make a good impression. Fine. Excellent. I knew I could count on you. I'll see you then! ... Brian...did you fill out that TPS report...
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Maybe he's a big fan of whitespace?
The typical assembler line is way shorter than the typical line of a highlevel language. ;-)
Sure 780,000 lines is a lot, but of course he used his own editor which quadruples his programming speed. :-))
I wonder what ever happened to reading webpages while surfing... Ooohh, right, so that's what you call surfing
Then he discovered loops.
and some days you just read /.
AND while, presumably, taking other classes and studying for tests in other courses, having friends, etc?
Whoa...slow down on those assumptions there hoss...
--trb
Seems simply enough, this kid has obviously developed an FTL browser.
Explains why it crashes at Warp 7 too, the dilithium code just can't take, keptin!
I had a friend once who did 1500 lines in one day... but he got a REALLY serious nose bleed
I refuse to have a sig... dammit!
yeah but this is supposed to be fast and optimized so it can't be wizard driven :)
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?