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Can't help but remember the quintessential (links anyone?) dropbox critique when Drew first talked about it on HN. In particular something like 'why do we need
by gist 10y ago
Can't help but remember the quintessential (links anyone?) dropbox critique when Drew first talked about it on HN. In particular something like 'why do we need this when you can just use rsync'.
- varenc 10y agohere it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 my favorite comment is definitely this one: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
- j605 10y agoSo you perform commits after uploading. How are you going to convince your collaborators to do it too.