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There are plenty of locations where internet connections constantly breaks, or the network equipment is just so poor that everyone's connections drop/connect on
by capableweb 4y ago
There are plenty of locations where internet connections constantly breaks, or the network equipment is just so poor that everyone's connections drop/connect once a day or so. Or that the latency is so high that most servers drops your connection before they even gave you a chance to connect. That's "offline" as well even though I'm not actually offline, my connection is just really slow.
But the mindset you have explains a lot about why most software doesn't well in environments like that, people simply believe conditions like that don't exists so why should the server allow connections that take longer than 3 seconds? "Probably they're spamming us so let's drop the connection instead".
If you have the right setup, all of the issues you're saying are easily worked around (even the "copy paste from Stack Overflow" issue, although I'm not sure if that's a joke or not).
- jillesvangurp 4y agoMost software development simply does not happen in those places for that reason. Basically, it's a supply and demand thing. Software developers require decent connectivity and they'll move to where the connectivity is. Or they'll fix a decent connection (using star link or whatever).
- capableweb 4y agoI promise you, software development also happens in unbelievable places like South America, Africa and other low connectivity places. Edit: just came across this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33274186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33274186 Seems funny that Stack Overflow would enable offline usage when supposedly no developers have poor connection, they'll simply move to places with amazing networking.