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>And then the pointy-haired boss will demand that the pop-up is fixed. Which they can do by finding a way to load a lot of JS that doesn't trigger the popup (s
by marcinzm 8y ago
>And then the pointy-haired boss will demand that the pop-up is fixed.
Which they can do by finding a way to load a lot of JS that doesn't trigger the popup (someone below mentions running eval on a png). This will likely make the site even slower to users but there won't be a popup.
I've found it best to never assume that intelligent creative people will choose the specific approach I want to solve a problem.
- noir_lord 8y agoIt's always wise to be careful how you pick your targets because people optimise for them in ways you don't expect so if you pick the wrong ones then you get unwanted outcomes. I've seen it happen in sales, you focus on add on warranties at head office, store level they convince customer to buy cheaper product and sell the warranty (now if the margin on the warranty is high enough to offset that might be a smart move) or in one memorable instance give everyone a discount equal to the cost of the warranty.. We did wonder how that branch was selling more warranties than the next three best performing.
- marcinzm 8y agoYup. I work in healthcare and one story I hear is about readmission rates to hospitals. Basically, you don't want people to have to go back to the hospital after a procedure due to complications. So it makes sense for Medicare to reward hospitals and surgeons with low readmission rates. All good. Except for one little problem, there's one kind of patient that never ever gets readmitted. A dead one. And studies have shown that decreases in readmission rates are correlated with increases in morality rates (at least for certain procedures).
- infotogivenm 8y agoI don’t see why the runtime/interpreter couldn’t keep accurate count of the amount of code it has loaded at any time. We trust the implementers to handle much harder things already.