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by dsun180 2422 days ago
The definition of realtime is vague so saying that something is "not really realtime" just because it is not "realtime computing" is wrong.
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discreteevent 2422 days ago
In fairness it was a bit pretentious of whoever decided to call it real-time which was a word with a specific meaning and a very hard earned reputation. 'Live' might have been better.
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ceejayoz 2422 days ago
"You see the updates in real time without having to refresh the page" seems like a perfectly reasonable statement.

I submit that being pedantic about such things is frequently its own form of pretension.

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