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What would you do with a totally open specification?

You are absolutely correct, which is why the bulk of Gmail’s client code is dedicated to hiding latency.

I’m curious how they do competitive analysis. They want to be faster than gmail but how do they measure? I tried to take a high-speed video of gmail navigating from thread list to thread but it was not conclusive. Gmail collects a ton of client-side timing data and I wonder if anyone has ever just intercepted that.

It’s wild that Vox is an amateur baseball blog that mushroomed into a billion-dollar media conglomerate.

LTO doesn't suffer from those things. Shock can destroy the case and dislodge the leader pin of an LTO cartridge but AFAIK it can't damage the data on the tape. Water is bad for the transport but as long as you dry your tapes out they should still work. The operating specs for LTO are crazy, you can read and write them under all practical atmospheric conditions.

Garmin. You know, the brand that is 100x more popular among bicyclists.

Apple marketing machine in action: get local press to write up as a novelty feature that main competitor has had for ages.

You're right but it says that the contractors who unionized work for an IT outsourcing firm.

Google has kind of a random relationship with various classes of employees. There are contract cooks and janitors and whatnot but they made the physical security guards full-time.

It doesn't. Where does the USW come into the picture, if PATP is affiliate of the DPE, considering that USW is _also_ an affiliate of DPE? I don't get it and I wished the article explained it.

Considering that they work for a third party I imagine it is the third party's problem.

They stopped issuing major updates for the Nexus 5X very shortly after Google Fi stopped selling them brand new on their website.

That's true, also government programs to create jobs are pretty misguided in an environment with all-time-low unemployment. We should be trying to create employees.

Toyota doesn't even bother trying to market the Tundra outside the Americas, since cowboy cosplay isn't terribly popular abroad, so it makes sense that they are made here.

Which part of that wikipedia article strikes you as characteristic of a "long, steady decline"?

Is that your personal definition? On App Engine I deploy a function that gets invoked whenever an HTTP endpoint is requested. It clearly maps to the semantic of "function as a service" and I don't know about or control the number of servers so it also has the properties of "serverless".