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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. So they skipped over those steps of the value chain, and purchased Android in 2005 (launched in 2008) to backwards integrate to the OS layer. Operating system (OS) – computers need an OS to provide a user interface.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am. Virtual Goods Summit 2008 + last week’s Twitter links » Add New Comment.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header. But: the script invoked gets completely processed, just the output is trashed.