I’m not so much FOR the big wait as AGAINST the many little waits.

If a site forces you to wait at every step, it had better be porn or the equivalent. Otherwise the whole experience will be stilted.

An example.

The users want content, but you don’t know what it is yet. What you should you do?

Why not be presumptuous and GUESS? And load it in the background. Amazon makes guesses for particular users all the time…why not use the same probablistic algorithms to anticipate what users will solicit in bandwith-hogging sites?

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