Fail gracefully is something should always be part of the design of any web based service.
Who said that first? Was it the Microsoft team that designed this [wikipedia.org] or the Apple team that designed this [wikipedia.org] or this [wikipedia.org]?:-)
In a semi-related true story, I once got a fatal error message from Tcsh that said, "Assertion Botch. This can't happen!" as the shell failed. Man, talk about a paradox.
"the design of any web based service" is compared to a non recoverable kernel panic? I really don't understand. If web search is enabled, it returned no results, not a kernel panic. At least it should have been in the summary if true.
Can someone explain... (Score:3)
Why doesn't search spin off TWO threads, one to search the local computer, and the other to search online, if the user has that feature enabled?
This way both threads can work and local results can be returned while the other thread tries to search online. This has two WONDERFUL benefits:
- You will get local results faster, regardless of the state of online search,
- Local search will work period, even if you're not online.
This is... common sense shit? Computers can multitask; there's no reason both searches
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Fail gracefully is something should always be part of the design of any web based service.
Re:Can someone explain... (Score:2)
Fail gracefully is something should always be part of the design of any web based service.
Who said that first? Was it the Microsoft team that designed this [wikipedia.org] or the Apple team that designed this [wikipedia.org] or this [wikipedia.org]? :-)
In a semi-related true story, I once got a fatal error message from Tcsh that said, "Assertion Botch. This can't happen!" as the shell failed. Man, talk about a paradox.
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"the design of any web based service" is compared to a non recoverable kernel panic? I really don't understand. If web search is enabled, it returned no results, not a kernel panic. At least it should have been in the summary if true.
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If web search is enabled, it returned no results, not a kernel panic.
It still should have returned local results.