Re:Gmail having issues
by himinlomax on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:49AM
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> I said this in another comment but this seems like a naive way
That's the standards-compliant way. Also I'd argue that spec'ing your code to handle cases where Google fails that badly is (was?) a poor allocation of LoCs.
Re:Gmail having issues
by mehrdadn on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:53AM
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You're entirely missing the point by blaming this on Google. This is meant to detect and handle some failure modes, and they could happen to anyone (including Google), for reasons that can be both inside and outside their control.
That's the standards-compliant way. Also I'd argue that spec'ing your code to handle cases where Google fails that badly is (was?) a poor allocation of LoCs.