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Re:The Servant Economy by martythemaniak on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @05:45PM (#19323723)
That's funny, but it also sounds like a cynical way of looking at your work. Once you throw in games in the "waste of time" bucket, where do you stop? Movies? Music? Drawing? etc?

20ms sounds like very little, but have you ever tried to get anything done in a place where everybody has a lax attitude towards time?

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Re:The Servant Economy by ahartmetz on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:53AM (#19326547)
You kinda said it - lowering latency is less about saving time, it's more about saving annoyance / making the product more pleasant to use.

I might be particularly sensitive to it - I have a strong preference for low latency and tight controls in everything including cars. Ten or fifteen seconds bootup, don't care too much. I click on a browser tab and it takes 200ms to switch - ugh, is there a better browser?

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Re:The Servant Economy by forgotmypw2 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:11AM (#19326615)
That's 20ms on a good link, but on a bad one there's probably a multiplier.

Too bad all these savings are eclipsed by js cruft.

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