Is it still required to download the entire 300MB+ Boost library to use a small section of it, like odeint for example? This has always been the "joke" that prevents me from taking it seriously.
It's amazing that people on StackOverflow suggest using this package for things as simple as sort functions.
If you're using any kind of sane package manager for your builds - NuGet on Win32, distro-specific package managers on Unix etc - that's exactly how it is presented. So you don't take a dependency on Boost - you take a dependency on boost-filesystem, or boost-regex, or boost-date_time etc.
You can also use the included bcp utility [1] to extract a subset of boost.
[1] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_64_0/tools/bcp/doc/html/inde...
On the east coast I pay about $70 per month for about 50mbps.
I would be interested to here if suburbs elsewhere in the country have it much worse (or much better).