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by tsurkoprt 3872 days ago
Nothing new under the sun - this sounds just like Ab Initio Co>OS (https://www.abinitio.com started somewhere in 1995 and I would say the best piece of software code I've seen in my 20 years - not working for them anymore, so it is not advertisement).
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Well, I had a look at their website.

It takes twenty seconds to load. (I timed it.) And all that delay is deliberate; it's stupid animations and scrolly things, all of them unskippable. Once it's loaded you now have a different stupid scrolly thing which is almost impossible to navig...

Oh god. It's flash. The whole site is one huge flash page! What is this, the 1990s?

If their marketing and PR department is so utterly out-of-touch that they think this is a good idea, I shudder to think what the engineering's like!