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"Does your server really care how the first few bites are?"

On first pass, I read this and thought he spelled 'bytes' wrong. ^_^



Same. Funny how meanings of words have different precedence for different people. I imagine if I was an expert at waiting in lines, the word "waiter" might not immediately bring up an image of a person bringing food to my table. If I was from the UK, the word "line" might cause me to think of a telephone line or something, because they use the word "queue" instead. Does that mean they visualize people waiting in line when they hear the word "queue" in a computer science context?

Strange.


Ha ha, wow! I thought I was the only one who read it that way.


Your server really cares, its those first few bites that tell it the packet is meant for them :-)


Same here. And I was thinking: "wait a minute, that warm, unfeeling server really does care about those bytes--quite ironic actually."




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