Comment by agumonkey
4 years ago
That bill has never been passed it seems, in the mainstream that is. I've been wondering how to design a system that would focus more on this aspect. Opportunities here.
4 years ago
That bill has never been passed it seems, in the mainstream that is. I've been wondering how to design a system that would focus more on this aspect. Opportunities here.
Look at how you get correct progress bars for free with Hadoop. If it is that easy to do for a huge distributed cluster with 100+ machines imagine how easy it could be to do on a small scale.
What if web browsers told the user outright which third party services were responsible for the world wide wait?
One pet peeve of mine is the CDN distributed JavaScript in which people download 20 files of which they only need 2, have 8 in the cache, the rest loading efficiently, but the last DNS lookup hangs and causes a 30 sec timeout.
If customers knew who the blame then the brand destruction would progress that much quicker; and I wouldn’t be facing the sisphyian journey of proving over and over to sheeple that that the javascript CDN slightly improves median latency at the cost of vastly worse tail latency.
…that’s because you have a set job with constraints and machines dedicated to that sole task in a controlled environment. Personal computing, third party drivers, background tasks, etc all impact this.
Partially so.
Hadoop’s progress bar is possible because it breaks a task up into small units; you know it was broken into 1000 units and that 50 are done so the job is roughly 5% done.
GUI programs really shouldn’t be able to use a thread for long at all. If they have to do 2 s worth of work they should break it up in 20 chunks of 0.1s and if they go a millisecond over the App Store should refund your purchase price and kick them out permanently.
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there was a contravariant scheme where web became chromeless, everything was ultra cute, flat and abstracted away while the web became more and more sophisticated (js loading, cdn, reactive/components) too
back in the days you had more information about the technical details of browsing (and prior to that, some browser exposed GC/ram use as a toolbar button)