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I can't imagine any non-facebook employee really caring. If a company seriously depends on facebook in any real way, then they have their priorities all wrong. Now, if bloomberg goes down, then I can understand the problem...

By contrast, I'm sure it's apocalyptic at facebook itself. That happens at even the most trivial web companies.

I once read an article about embedded systems programming for critical care machinery. Error codes included such things as "patient not breathing", "cardiac failure", and things of that ilk. I don't like it when my web sites go down, either, but it does put things in perspective.

For me, it's interesting to realize how UN-important something is when I don't have it :)

Interesting to note that the "Stuff" essay (http://paulgraham.com/stuff.html) is currently ranked at number 1.

Coincidence?

Gmail seems goes down about every two months...