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Best HN comeback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
by olalonde 9y ago
Best HN comeback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
- koolba 9y agoThat's a classic. The second reply as well.
- yodon 9y agoWhen I was a kid, a neighbor friend of my sister's came over to our house and very arrogantly announced "I live next door to a Nobel Prize winner." We all made polite comments. After she left, my mom turned to us and said "I so wanted to tell her 'my dear, I sleep with one.' Yes, it was probably the only block in the world with two Nobel Prize winners living on it.
- bastijn 9y agoNot only that. But that same thread goes into his idea being the same as Dropbox, both being startup ideas at the time. Seems the latter won that comeback though.
- basseq 9y agoNot only that, but Drew Houston waded in. History 3,596 days later.
- qu4z-2 9y agoWell, Tarsnap[0] also exists, although granted Dropbox is more popular so I guess won in that sense. I think they have a slightly different target audience anyway. [0]: https://www.tarsnap.com/ https://www.tarsnap.com/
- r3bl 9y agoYou've now reminded me of my most-upvoted HN comment to date: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417168 I remember a couple of techies sitting around, watching the thread, and the guy pissed us off to the point where I just couldn't keep my mouth shut.
- cperciva 9y agoHow did I guess this was going to show up again?