Marc Brooker personal blog
Alice is impatient
Meet Alice. Alice uses your web service. Alice, like most humans, measures her time in seconds and minutes. Alice says your service is slow. You tell Alice that the mean request to your service completes in 100ms, but Alice says that her mean wait time is 1s.
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2026 | Alice is impatient by birdculture | 148 | 41 |