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date: 2003-02-26 03:52:00.000000000 -08:00
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<p>Building applications for a platform where the<br />
latency is O(30 seconds) and you have 160 char to<br />
work with from each direction is really quite<br />
interesting. Every single interaction needs to be <b>easy</b>. You have to try really hard to predict how the user might fuck up and just do what they mean. And you aren't going to get to refer them to a 4 page FAQ. And even if you do, "4 pages" gets you about 100 words.</p>