Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)

Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by flyGuyOnTheSly on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:43AM (#16296826)

>when the progress bar is still getting asymptotically closer to the end

That, my friend, is an impressive command of the English language.

Thank you for teaching me the word asymptotically! [0]

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/asymptotically

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Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by herbstein on Saturday February 03, 2018 @07:25AM (#16297353)

I think most people that have done a CS degree would at least know the word. My cs101 class talked about asymptotic notation.

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Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by sk5t on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:58AM (#16297629)

Not CS but any study of limits in math, perhaps with differential equations. And it’s a useful term generally, much more likely to come up in conversation than “subtrahend” or “mantissa” but not nearly as much as “tangent.”

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Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by flyGuyOnTheSly on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:38PM (#16299505)

And that must be why I have yet to hear it, as I never took CS.

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Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by tyingq on Saturday February 03, 2018 @11:49AM (#16298311)

At least it didn't say "orthagonal". Don't know why, but that word pops up here way too often.

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