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MrEnigma on Nov 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Google makes Google(+) fast

The little red box that shows how many notifications, is anything but fast...

Edit: It reminds me of the eBay motors data we got a few weeks ago. A lot of it is making the page appear to be loading (i.e. flush the buffer for 'above the fold' and then ajax everything else in)

agumonkey on Nov 15, 2011 [–]

That little box was one of the delights of previous social websites i've toyed with, G+ flipped it into an anguish box.. amazing.

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