> It's a pet peeve of mine (I'm not really talking about what > you said) but developer's really have to stop assuming that > people are as sophisticated as they are. More specifically > (and less arrogantly) they have to stop assuming that people > actually give a rat's ass about the stuff they do. ;^) > People want things to work, work fast and work correctly - > they don't care if it's web-based or not, uses a database or not, etc. > > People may sit down to a web application and intellectually > think "this is going to be slow" but it doesn't alter their > innate transactional timetable. > People may EXPECT a satellite feed to be delayed, they KNOW > it will be delayed. But they are still disconcerted and > frustrated by the delay nonetheless. > > These numbers aren't what people are willing to put up with - > they describe the results of waiting for response, generally. > Even if a person KNOWS that this web application will be > slower they will still lose focus and attention. It's just > the way we're wired - regardless of how fast our technology > happens to be.
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