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I don't believe so, but we target everything in the Webkit ecosystem (Chrome, Edge, Safari), so Firefox would be the only odd browser out.

The fundamental motivation for the app id concept is that part of the value that InboxSDK provides is cushioning the developer from version conflicts, both from Gmail updates and f…

It does! That was actually one of the motivations for open-sourcing.

Cost was definitely a consideration (although not the only one) in deciding whether to store all created links vs. just a blocklist. Once we got to a mode where we were only doing …

This is impressive! For folks who are worried about what this says about App Engine's security - historically the JVM level sandboxing was one part of an overall sandboxing story (…

Except it is: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...

It looks like the play here is to get a bunch of small, committed workloads that GCE can move around where they've got spare capacity. On-demand pricing is very similar to the exis…

Streak | YC S11 | Engineering Manager | Vancouver, BC & San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Onsite Streak is hiring our first dedicated engineering manager who will be directly respons…

(I'm the author of the post - just woke up and saw this discussion. Hi!) Will put together a follow-up with some more information, but in summary: * yeah, no built-ins for graph op…

(I'm the author of the post - just woke up and saw this discussion. Hi!) The intention wasn't to hold out Spanner as a purpose-built graph database, but rather to talk about using …

(I'm the author of the post - just woke up and saw this discussion. Hi!) Definitely wasn't meaning this post's title to be clickbait-y. The intention wasn't to hold out Spanner as …

I'm the post author and happy to answer any questions people might have!

Does this runtime have access to the Standard APIs? It doesn't seem like the docs have any mention of Task Queue/Memcache/etc.

We (Streak) are based on a browser extension, but we're actually really excited about this launch since it works on the native Gmail mobile apps and it lets you install addons once…

The graph itself is d3: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/

Based on random use over the past few years. Redshift: Pros: Has the most adoption, so most integrations from SaaS services etc. are built with Redshift as their sink. Relatively f…

Used to work at Dropbox. Existing knowledge of new hires was 90% of the challenge with Mercurial with the other 10% being weird edge cases (e.g. very large/numerous repositories) t…

Added a clarification to the relevant section. Apologies again for the confusion!

Apologies if I misrepresented Kafka's replication. So the system described in the blog post is the new 0.8.2+ stuff with min.insync.replicas taking over required.acks? Will review.…