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by eyelidlessness 2036 days ago
I didn’t implement one but a former employer did, and [consults my exit agreement] the only thing I can say is they got complaints about long running processes that depended on third party data sources that were so unpredictable that having a colored bar gradually fill up a colorless bar made people stop calling so much, even if it didn’t convey much information.