Internet browser that quadruples surf speed
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All I can say is "yeah, right". A 16-year-old kid writes 780,000* lines of code in 18 months (1500 lines of code per day - or 3 lines per minute x 8 hours x 540 days - plus design, integration, debugging, rewriting any poor implementations of a vastly superior algorithm than anyone has ever thought of), creates a web browser that works 4 - no 6 - times faster (depending on which part of the story you believe), presumably he is going to school at the same time, and learning how to create a web browser at the same time. But, there's more: he incorporated every media player, a DVD player, a language translator, a talking animated figure, and it reads webpages for the blind. (Oh yeah: he says he's been programming since 12 - in other words, he only had roughly two years of experience when he started this project.) He said he was still in a state of shock as he had not expected to win (Wow. Must be a rough competition if he didn't expect to win.) * Or 1.5 million lines of code, depending on which story is right. Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/712974p-5244591c.html[^] http://www.fhs.ie/newsroom_latest.asp?id=241[^] http://www.online.ie/business/latest/viewer.adp?article=1924781[^] The only possible method I can think of to do this would be to use a spider to pre-fetch web links, then he bundled it with the MS IE control and some plug-ins. Then, used shifty code count numbers (like adding the code counts of all components - which he didn't write). ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion