#web
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Outlook Web is basically useless on a slow internet connection.
It seems like every click requires a round-trip to the server before it acknowledges the click. Trying to reply to an email? Click "reply", wait until the server acknowledges, then it opens the reply window.
This is exactly how not to build a JavaScript single-page app. -
I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible. (gizmodo.com)"Its global empire also includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), the vast server network that provides the backbone for much of the internet, as well as Twitch.tv, the broadcasting behemoth that is the backbone of the online gaming industry, and Whole Foods, the organic backbone of the yuppie diet. "
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Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? (twobithistory.org)"the putative benefits of something like XML are not easy to sell to a programmer when the alternatives are both entirely sufficient and much easier to understand"
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ironic coming from the same company that's trying to get rid of the URL
https://twitter.com/googledocs/status/1055490445088903168