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Re: Why “new”?

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Ken Wesson wrote:
>> There comes a point when finding out what someone meant is easier by
>> simply asking them rather than googling. I find that point tends to come
>> if I'd have to run three or four google queries in a row to get the
>> answer rather than, say, one.

Peter Duniho wrote:
> Really? Incredible!
>
> Google says it resolves a search in around 2/10ths of a second for me. Even
> accounting for network latency, I can get a search done in about 1 second.
> Even accounting for the time it takes to type (let's assume you're awful at
> typing and can manage only 5 words a minute or so, thus making the typing time
> by far the dominant time-consumer in the activity), you ought to be able to
> complete a half-dozen three-word queries in a few minutes.
>
> Is that really so much harder than spending all this time complaining that I
> was "snarky" and trying to defend your laziness?

For him, it is, because he can't troll a Google search.

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Lew
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Re: Why “new”? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-02-06 09:13 -0400
  Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 22:59 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 05:42 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 23:07 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-08 07:39 -0500
      Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 16:14 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-08 20:22 +0800
    Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 11:59 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-07 19:18 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:03 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:01 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 12:33 +0100
      Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-08 20:32 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 04:45 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-02-06 20:20 -0800
  Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-07 11:27 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 04:17 +0100

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