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by tazzy531 4862 days ago
Zurb did a tech talk a while back. They found that the drop off rate for one of their long running processes dropped significantly when they added a red bouncy ball as an interstitial for any process that took more than 400 ms.
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I wonder about why this is the case.

* Is it because we as users have been conditioned, through years of faulty software, to assume crap crashes/hangs when there are unexpected delays?

* Or is the majority of computing so fast and instantaneous that we can't bring ourselves to wait on something that doesn't have an immediate end in sight?