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Re:Establishing secure connection by tazzy531 on Friday March 01, 2013 @03:41PM (#5306829)
Zurb did a tech talk a while back. They found that the drop off rate for one of their long running processes dropped significantly when they added a red bouncy ball as an interstitial for any process that took more than 400 ms.
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Re:Establishing secure connection by B-Con on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:16PM (#5371747)
I wonder about why this is the case.

* Is it because we as users have been conditioned, through years of faulty software, to assume crap crashes/hangs when there are unexpected delays?

* Or is the majority of computing so fast and instantaneous that we can't bring ourselves to wait on something that doesn't have an immediate end in sight?

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