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THAT! As a “filthy casual”, I have other things to do in life , some of which earn money to buy these games.
I appreciate it when games let you skip things you aren’t enjoying (duh!!!). It allows the game designers the freedom to throw in all kinds of crazy things, without worrying about losing the audience.
Not everybody is a completionist.
We fixed it a few days later, but it didn’t cause much trouble so it was largely forgotten.
Fortunately, the guys that spent the previous year sweating the details got it right. We had one system that printed year 100 in its log which was only used by humans.
Unfortunately, I missed the party and cash the night shift got.
+ / ! 1000Conifer forest
Vs
Pine Pine Cedar Spruce Pine Cedar ...
No bungee or other setup. Just toss it over the hill.
Under-the-wing video:
Carbon fiber decapitating blades of death if you get too close. HHOS.
There is definitely value in having both automated testing for repetitive stuff, AND, humans touching stuff to spot unspecified insanity.
Currently I work on systems to prepare and validate birth and death certificates for the state, counties, hospitals, et al, and this whole “throw it against the wall and see what sticks” methodology doesn’t fly. Nor would it have worked when preparing and presenting investment account information 5 years ago, nor the job 10 years ago processing lawsuit and insurance claim cases and legal bills. Nor any place that I at least have ever worked in the last 30 years.
Business to business app, or sales site?
YMMV. 5 seconds could be intolerable, or a big improvement.
If you are running a marketing or sales oriented site, you want to minimize friction.
It sounds like you are doing more of a “captive user” app, similar to the government/healthcare oriented stuff I have been working on the last few years. In that case, you still want to tune things a bit, but you do have goals and criteria which might not match this article.
Make sure things which can be cached are. (And don’t sweat the size of static assets too much, the second visit is just an HTTP header swap)
Minimize the number of requests.
Schedule requests for supplemental data in a component or form to load after the primary data.
Minimize the size of dynamic data messages, though this can be hard when you work with devs who like very long names.
Accept the fact that many of your web clients may have round trip latency well over 200 milliseconds, as well as the occasional multi second delay or request loss, and plan to work around that without hanging.
Disclosure: I lean more towards “free trade is evil”, at least if you are labor, rather than capital. Michael Bloomberg might see it differently.
Edit: and I didn’t go into the article looking for a fight - I wanted to see news affecting an industry I work in, and the trade line jumped out. It’s probably even true, but it’s not hard to to imagine ulterior motives for mentioning it.
E voting shouldn’t exist. How badly it was implemented is moot.
Perhaps when the keyboard fails, someday, I’ll replace it, instead of just upgrading the RAM and drive.
Kidding aside, I would like to get a newer version someday with better screen resolution and size, but Apple seems to have many missteps to recover from the last 5 years or so.
I’m assuming an implied “/s” at the end of your comment.
That said, I’m not a fan of UBI. Yes, do tax the hell out of people who made fortunes from their inherited wealth and social connections / status, but use the money to hire people to do something useful and purposeful. E.g., roads, parks, schools, healthcare, basic research.
Maybe we try old fashioned Keynes style policy again, as Reagan / Laffer nonsense seems to have objectively failed for 90+ percent of the population, then maybe we discuss UBI if still needed.
Edit: P.S. I mostly like your comment, otherwise.
Yes, this is article is very politically timed given the upcoming primaries.
I don’t have the answer, but you would want to measure dollars to buy it, and nanoseconds to refill it.
Meh.
I guess I’m somewhat used to the asynchronous I/O model that things like Win16 and JavaScript use. You have to think a bit more about the unpredictable order that things happen in, but not about preemption race conditions and data corruption.
The only threading model I have seen that I care for is Erlang’s. The C ... Java model is a data corruption death trap.
At that, Erlang kind of straddles the gap between independent execution and communicating sequential processes.
Never worked on any real time stuff. Looks like they are very big on using a flat finite state machine model. At least at Saab. I’m guessing they didn’t use C++, either, but who knows.
Can anybody here speak to that choice?
Especially if you avoid making everything global.