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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 …

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 th…

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 c…

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 e…

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 serv…

Maybe but this post is about making the two sides of the computer NOT communicate.

Skylake-X has 44 PCI 3.0 lanes, that's 352GT/s or about 345gbps application bandwidth. It's certainly more than enough to push 100gbps from disk to net. These guys are pushing 200g…

So why is it important to have a multisocket NUMA machine? Why not just save yourself a lot of hassle by having one socket? I know that the previous generation AMD machine had unav…

This is neat. The obvious comparison is glog's DLOG feature.

The answer really depends on the nature of these transactions. For example if you can achieve the desired throughput with one thread that could change your decision.

There's always sailing, although it's a bit laborious, and fission has a good record at sea :-)

Even if Hypeloop worked, which hasn't been demonstrated, its nameplate capacity is close to zero. It can optimistically replace one highway lane. It cannot possibly displace air tr…

You seem to have conflated CO2 with other pollutants. All the world's shipping taken together amounts to only 3% of the carbon emission inventory. It certainly is not the case that…

When you deploy a datacenter at this scale you contract for an amount of power and you're basically obligated to use it. The trick is to get more compute out of the same amount of …

Ehrlich's timing was not great and his book is almost unreadable but the things predicted therein have come to pass. It really is more crowded in Yosemite than in downtown LA, and …