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Very funny that me and my coworkers at nearly the same time opened our office doors to look into each others eyes and silently confirm that we were having the s

Very funny that me and my coworkers at nearly the same time opened our office doors to look into each others eyes and silently confirm that we were having the same issue. Then we all turned around and went back into our offices to check HN to see if it was just us. Very funny that everyone reading this did something similar. 84 points in 4 minutes.

3327 13y ago
My bad I apologize to everyone. My botnet gained consciousness, went rogue, and for some reason picked Gmail as the first target to take down.
- TrainedMonkey 13y ago
  Not leaving at least one division by zero in code that has a chance to become self aware is a rookie mistake. We are very lucky indeed that Google Self-Defensive Forces took it down with satellite strike so quickly.
gk1 13y ago
Well it's a selection bias. The many people who did not do something similar are not here to say so.
- aydinghajar 13y ago
  Well, of course. But it's still amusing.
- dude3 13y ago
  I quipped "Today must be my last day"...
  - reeses 13y ago
    I terminated a relationship with a consulting client right before the outage and thought,"How the hell did they manage that?" Then I realized I probably broke Google by dragging their folder from clients to clients/retired. Sorry about that.
    - TrainedMonkey 13y ago
      You should be. That was very naughty of you.
      - reeses 13y ago
        I'm about to tar up their folder on Dropbox, so you might want to avoid that for a bit as well. :-)
kschlenker 13y ago
+1
BuddhaSource 13y ago
I was surprised, Hangout chat self declares "Gmail is down". Usually you would expect "not reachable" or something similar. It is like server is returning error msg to client that service is down.
- rinon 13y ago
  Probably never thought such a thing would happen.
d23 13y ago
I took off my headphones and asked the office: "anyone else having gmail issues?" Everyone burst into laughter. They had been talking about it for minutes.
- rickyc091 13y ago
  One could argue that you were just being productive and doing your work.
  - stephenhuey 13y ago
    If only HN would go down at the same time so we really could get a ton of work done!
    - IgorPartola 13y ago
      Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stephenhuey https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stephenhuey and change noprocrast to yes.
      - jetru 13y ago
        You fucking changed my life.
        IgorPartola 13y ago
        I did none of the sort. Whoever invented and implemented this feature did. It's too bad it's hidden in plain site.
        shortstuffsushi 13y ago
        Pun intended?
        IgorPartola 13y ago
frustwrited 13y ago
I'm in Sierra Vista, AZ and I'm getting same error on all gmail accounts right now. Temporary Error (500) We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the Apps Status Dashboard for the current status of the service. Hide Detailed Technical Info Numeric Code: 93
psbp 13y ago
It's back up for me.
- stephenhuey 13y ago
  For me too.
- ryanmcbride 13y ago
  Looks like it came back up in the last few minutes.
  - psbp 13y ago
    Let's do a quick head count to make sure everyone made it through alive.
- dested 13y ago
  That was the more boring 19 minutes of my life
- nogridbag 13y ago
  It was back up for me, but now it's down (as soon as I hit the Send button... boo).
- cpprototypes 13y ago
  It seems to be back up, but struggling under the load of probably millions of users checking their email.
- eli 13y ago
  I still can't attach files or use my contacts. Seems pretty flaky.
latj 13y ago
It makes me feel uneasy how reliant on Google I have become and basically everyone else I know.
- ssully 13y ago
  If you take a look at your life as see everything else you are reliant on then you might have a full blown panic attack.
  - TeMPOraL 13y ago
    I did once, and it scared the hell out of me and made me worry for months. Then I finally got over it, and now I love when someone asks me, what would I do without my computer if the electric grid suddenly went out worldwide - I can go on talking how I'd have bigger worries than my computer, because "you, me and everyone we know would literally die within a week, followed by a significant part (30-50%) of world population".
TrainedMonkey 13y ago
The intensity and speed this thread rose up on HN illustrates a very important principle. People are more likely to leave a review/comment/upvote if something is not working for them. Understanding that is useful when comparing products using reviews.
- btilly 13y ago
  This is a very important principle. For a time, Target used Amazon's website code. Here is what they found. People leave reviews of books that they like. People only bother reviewing microwave machines when they didn't work. This meant that Amazon's code didn't work out as well for Target as it did for Amazon...
  - IgorPartola 13y ago
    The whole online review thing is thoroughly broken. I am not even talking about people leaving bad reviews for things like "the seller didn't ship it on time", etc. I am talking about the fact that most people that leave a review have nothing to compare the product to. For example, try shopping for a wireless router. You'll find lots of people either praising or bashing it but having no basis for comparison. Star ratings are completely screwed because lots of people give both one and five star ratings based on completely insane criteria. Long written reviews are naturally most informative, but you have to remember that they are also extremely subjective. On the other hand, you can't trust expert reviews either. The experts spend too little time with each product to form an actual opinion. They often form their opinions based on some very shallow factors. A canonical example of this is mobile phone reviews by sites like Engadget or Gizmodo. They review so many phones that they can spend only a few days with each. Edit: one of the worst things for this is reviews of hard drives. While there certainly are hard numbers to go off, there are also lots of opinions: "Well I've owned 6 Seagate drives over the past 4 years, and they all ended up dead. Seagate products are crap!" That does not mean that all Seagate drives are crap, maybe just laptop ones. Or maybe your controller is bad and you keep attaching good drives to it. Or maybe you keep sticking these drives into a case with poor ventilation. On top of that your sample size is too small.
kyro 13y ago
Sounds like Google made for one romantic moment.
piyush_soni 13y ago
At the same time, I feel that the Karma the original uploader of such news gets is kind of, little undeserving.
__mp 13y ago
I didn't notice the outage (since I basically just use it for spam nowadays). But I did notice that gmail had a problem when I scrolled through my fb feed: http://i.imgur.com/mLQQO9t.png http://i.imgur.com/mLQQO9t.png
shangxiao 13y ago
My coworkers and I... sheesh are we becoming so lazy that we can't use correct grammar ;)

3327 13y ago

My bad I apologize to everyone. My botnet gained consciousness, went rogue, and for some reason picked Gmail as the first target to take down.

TrainedMonkey 13y ago
Not leaving at least one division by zero in code that has a chance to become self aware is a rookie mistake. We are very lucky indeed that Google Self-Defensive Forces took it down with satellite strike so quickly.

gk1 13y ago

Well it's a selection bias. The many people who did not do something similar are not here to say so.

aydinghajar 13y ago
Well, of course. But it's still amusing.
dude3 13y ago
I quipped "Today must be my last day"...
- reeses 13y ago
  I terminated a relationship with a consulting client right before the outage and thought,"How the hell did they manage that?" Then I realized I probably broke Google by dragging their folder from clients to clients/retired. Sorry about that.
  - TrainedMonkey 13y ago
    You should be. That was very naughty of you.
    - reeses 13y ago
      I'm about to tar up their folder on Dropbox, so you might want to avoid that for a bit as well. :-)

kschlenker 13y ago

BuddhaSource 13y ago

I was surprised, Hangout chat self declares "Gmail is down". Usually you would expect "not reachable" or something similar. It is like server is returning error msg to client that service is down.

rinon 13y ago
Probably never thought such a thing would happen.

d23 13y ago

I took off my headphones and asked the office: "anyone else having gmail issues?" Everyone burst into laughter. They had been talking about it for minutes.

rickyc091 13y ago
One could argue that you were just being productive and doing your work.
- stephenhuey 13y ago
  If only HN would go down at the same time so we really could get a ton of work done!
  - IgorPartola 13y ago
    Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stephenhuey https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stephenhuey and change noprocrast to yes.
    - jetru 13y ago
      You fucking changed my life.
      - IgorPartola 13y ago
        I did none of the sort. Whoever invented and implemented this feature did. It's too bad it's hidden in plain site.
        shortstuffsushi 13y ago
        Pun intended?
        IgorPartola 13y ago

frustwrited 13y ago

I'm in Sierra Vista, AZ and I'm getting same error on all gmail accounts right now. Temporary Error (500) We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the Apps Status Dashboard for the current status of the service. Hide Detailed Technical Info Numeric Code: 93

psbp 13y ago

It's back up for me.

stephenhuey 13y ago
For me too.
ryanmcbride 13y ago
Looks like it came back up in the last few minutes.
- psbp 13y ago
  Let's do a quick head count to make sure everyone made it through alive.
dested 13y ago
That was the more boring 19 minutes of my life
nogridbag 13y ago
It was back up for me, but now it's down (as soon as I hit the Send button... boo).
cpprototypes 13y ago
It seems to be back up, but struggling under the load of probably millions of users checking their email.
eli 13y ago
I still can't attach files or use my contacts. Seems pretty flaky.

latj 13y ago

It makes me feel uneasy how reliant on Google I have become and basically everyone else I know.

ssully 13y ago
If you take a look at your life as see everything else you are reliant on then you might have a full blown panic attack.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  I did once, and it scared the hell out of me and made me worry for months. Then I finally got over it, and now I love when someone asks me, what would I do without my computer if the electric grid suddenly went out worldwide - I can go on talking how I'd have bigger worries than my computer, because "you, me and everyone we know would literally die within a week, followed by a significant part (30-50%) of world population".

TrainedMonkey 13y ago

The intensity and speed this thread rose up on HN illustrates a very important principle. People are more likely to leave a review/comment/upvote if something is not working for them. Understanding that is useful when comparing products using reviews.

btilly 13y ago
This is a very important principle. For a time, Target used Amazon's website code. Here is what they found. People leave reviews of books that they like. People only bother reviewing microwave machines when they didn't work. This meant that Amazon's code didn't work out as well for Target as it did for Amazon...
- IgorPartola 13y ago
  The whole online review thing is thoroughly broken. I am not even talking about people leaving bad reviews for things like "the seller didn't ship it on time", etc. I am talking about the fact that most people that leave a review have nothing to compare the product to. For example, try shopping for a wireless router. You'll find lots of people either praising or bashing it but having no basis for comparison. Star ratings are completely screwed because lots of people give both one and five star ratings based on completely insane criteria. Long written reviews are naturally most informative, but you have to remember that they are also extremely subjective. On the other hand, you can't trust expert reviews either. The experts spend too little time with each product to form an actual opinion. They often form their opinions based on some very shallow factors. A canonical example of this is mobile phone reviews by sites like Engadget or Gizmodo. They review so many phones that they can spend only a few days with each. Edit: one of the worst things for this is reviews of hard drives. While there certainly are hard numbers to go off, there are also lots of opinions: "Well I've owned 6 Seagate drives over the past 4 years, and they all ended up dead. Seagate products are crap!" That does not mean that all Seagate drives are crap, maybe just laptop ones. Or maybe your controller is bad and you keep attaching good drives to it. Or maybe you keep sticking these drives into a case with poor ventilation. On top of that your sample size is too small.

kyro 13y ago

Sounds like Google made for one romantic moment.

piyush_soni 13y ago

At the same time, I feel that the Karma the original uploader of such news gets is kind of, little undeserving.

__mp 13y ago

I didn't notice the outage (since I basically just use it for spam nowadays). But I did notice that gmail had a problem when I scrolled through my fb feed: http://i.imgur.com/mLQQO9t.png http://i.imgur.com/mLQQO9t.png

shangxiao 13y ago

My coworkers and I... sheesh are we becoming so lazy that we can't use correct grammar ;)