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		simfoo on Feb 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wr... Just opening the context menu of a song (to add it to the queue for example) now requires connectivity and does at least one round-trip to their servers. Unless you actually cut the connection (e.g. air plane mode), then it suddenly works fine

ddoeth on Feb 19, 2020 [–]

They should just have set the timeout to half a second and no one would have noticed

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