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Welcome to 2018, friend, where we have several orders of magnitude more computing power and somehow everything is less responsive. It's all accomplished through an advanced process called "Software Engineering".
More specifically, sluggish websites seem to result from the popularity of "responsive design".
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More specifically, sluggish websites seem to result from the popularity of "responsive design".
Responsive design isn't to blame at all. The "Javascript all the things" approach is to blame.
Am a googler (hence throwaway account) & I can easily tell you why this shit keeps happening! Google featureless ZERO penalties for fucking shit up! Zero! Do you know what the people who wasted two years on Allo got after it was canned? Nothing! Some of them actually got promoted! Google GREATLY encourages "launches" - releasing something publicly. And keep in mind - no penalties if the shit is half baked, not workin…
As someone who works at a company similar to Google (not FAANG, but just below), this is hilariously accurate. > You cannot get promoted beyond a certain level in this place unless you... YES! It's soooo not about smarts/(true) impact/anything truly relevant - it's about racing to the bottom via launches, and crazy ways to generate revenue. I find is so funny looking back, that pre-undergrad-graduation, I thought pro…
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As someone who works at a company similar to Google (not FAANG, but just below), this is hilariously accurate. > You cannot get promoted beyond a certain level in this place unless you... YES! It's soooo not about smarts/(true) impact/anything truly relevant - it's about racing to the bottom via launches, and crazy ways to generate revenue. I find is so funny looking back, that pre-undergrad-graduation, I thought pro…
Which big company starts with "N"? I can only think of Nintendo..
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As someone who works at a company similar to Google (not FAANG, but just below), this is hilariously accurate. > You cannot get promoted beyond a certain level in this place unless you... YES! It's soooo not about smarts/(true) impact/anything truly relevant - it's about racing to the bottom via launches, and crazy ways to generate revenue. I find is so funny looking back, that pre-undergrad-graduation, I thought pro…
Which big company starts with "N"? I can only think of Nintendo..
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As someone who works at a company similar to Google (not FAANG, but just below), this is hilariously accurate. > You cannot get promoted beyond a certain level in this place unless you... YES! It's soooo not about smarts/(true) impact/anything truly relevant - it's about racing to the bottom via launches, and crazy ways to generate revenue. I find is so funny looking back, that pre-undergrad-graduation, I thought pro…
Which big company starts with "N"? I can only think of Nintendo..
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25.3KB, 2 seconds That's what the size of a webmail app should be measured in --- kilobytes, not megabytes. A megabyte of code is a lot , and I'd guess a lot of developers just don't have the intuition of how much that is; to put it into perspective, this is an entire operating system in 1.44MB: http://menuetos.net/
Went to test Fastmail after some other poster suggested it. Granted, inbox is empty, but feels way faster that gmail, on par with basic gmail, with more functionality. No cache reload: 28 requests, 114KB, 2.45 seconds. With cache: 28 requests, 12KB, 2.65 seconds. Funny: UI seems ready after 1 second, but there's an eventsource request that dwarfs the rest in the waterfall, taking the rest of the time. Edit: playing a…
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This exactly. On Firefox Nightly, time to first interaction for me is 30 seconds. I've found myself going to gmail.com, searching for something, and then waiting 30 seconds for "Loading..."to transform to "Something's not right". I've just started doing all reading on the Android app. It's still easier for me to write at my laptop than on my phone, so this miserable experience happens to me multiple times a week. I'v…
Use an IMAP client.