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by oefrha 899 days ago
Programmers developing webshits should really be forced to add 200ms to all their roundtrips. It’s worrying how many people assume everyone is 20ms from their “edge”, and openly advocate on HN for “new” technology that requires a roundtrip on every single state change, unwinding twenty years of client side advancements.
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As someome who doesn't live in the US I appreciate the nod. Unless the company has edges in the southern hemisphere, every single widget has a round trip of 2-300ms. Something like Jira with it's cascading react components was a jumbling absurd mess until all the roundtrips completed, which could take 10+ seconds. A liftime from a UX perspective.
Funny to have issues with Jira in the southern hemisphere since they're Australian, you'd think they would have figured that issue out.