Posted by Mark Hansen at 1:54 PM
I am writing an application for work, and recently made some improvements that are ostensibly "good". See, I improved the speed at which some of the operations occur. It is now so fast that my users wonder if anything even happened at all. So how did I solve this "problem"?
I solved it by introducing a 1 second delay in to the processing (after everything has completed). So now the user feels like the system was "thinking" or "doing something" when in fact...the system actually finished its work and is doing nothing!
I leave you with a Star Trek quote:
Data: She brought me closer to humanity than I ever thought possible, and for a time...I was tempted by her offer.
Jean-Luc Picard: How long a time?
Data: Zero point six eight seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.