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Re: Show HN: SpaceMagic, a real-time node.js framework

#5

Post by stcredzero »

mhd wrote: post #3

node.js has real-time guarantees?

Exactly what I was thinking. This is the third recent post to HN using "real-time" in this fashion. They're hijacking a term which already has widespread use and which, "doesn't mean what they think it does," to hijack a line from Princess Bride.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Re: Show HN: SpaceMagic, a real-time node.js framework

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Post by ZachS »

stcredzero wrote: post #5
mhd wrote: post #3

node.js has real-time guarantees?

Exactly what I was thinking. This is the third recent post to HN using "real-time" in this fashion. They're hijacking a term which already has widespread use and which, "doesn't mean what they think it does," to hijack a line from Princess Bride. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

I use "real-time" in this fashion because describing it as "soft real-time" seems weird.

Re: Show HN: SpaceMagic, a real-time node.js framework

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Post by mcantelon »

stcredzero wrote: post #6
mcantelon wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's a real-time guarantee?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Sure, anything using the Internet as a conduit, and having to scale to an unpredictable number of users, is incapable of a realtime-guarantee in the technical sense but in terms of user perception it will be real-time in normal conditions. Realtime-y. ;)

Re: Show HN: SpaceMagic, a real-time node.js framework

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Post by mhd »

ZachS wrote: post #7
stcredzero wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly what I was thinking. This is the third recent post to HN using "real-time" in this fashion. They're hijacking a term which already has widespread use and which, "doesn't mean what they think it does," to hijack a line from Princess Bride. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

I use "real-time" in this fashion because describing it as "soft real-time" seems weird.

Didn't we call websites that update without a manual page reload "AJAX" just a few minutes ago? And yes, even if there's no XML present, but at least it's an abuse of a pretty new, web-specific term.

I propose we call all that stuff "FEFYOM" (Fast Enough For You Old Man) from now on.

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