sacheendra

The authors point out that the PL community values formal methods and hard implementation, but not human factor studies and alternative programming approached like spreadsheets. I'm not from the PL community, but my first instinct was other communities such as social science, software engineering, HCI can do those things. PL has to be about building languages.

However, the example that drove the problem home for me was socioPLT. If award winning work on why program languages succeed is not highly successful, then maybe the community should indeed look into incorporating more research approaches.

The points the authors make about lack of community engagement for non-mainstream problems, lack of female creators in books about PLs, and gatekeeping of the term programming language are also convincing.

No satellite was pointed at the path when MH370 was flying.

That's only for Gmail, outlook.com, and samsung browser. It is possible to argue that these are not gateways without mental gymnastics.

It is fairly easy to migrate out of Gmail and outlook to another email provider. Not self host, but that's a different issue.

Samsung browser... Don't know any sites which only work in Samsung browser.

This I highly unlikely. Hyperscalers like AWS have custom power delivery, rack organization, redundant networking, etc. which make their instances reliable.

Long running jobs often use checkpoints which require high speed networking and storage, which I don't see an option for. Eg, I cam get EC2 instances with 100gbps networking.

Great job starting the service! But, I think you have ways to go before reaching Hyperscalers level reliability.