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If you want to impress developers wouldn't you simply get an FTP account, mount it locally with curlftpfs, and then use SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem?
by ChrisSD 8y ago
If you want to impress developers wouldn't you simply get an FTP account, mount it locally with curlftpfs, and then use SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem?
- swift532 8y agoWhat even?
- sbradford26 8y agoIt is making fun of the one of the top comment that was on the Show HN Dropbox. Here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 Ninja'd, should have refreshed.
- spiderfarmer 8y agoSomeone mentioned the existence of this FTP "solution" as a reason why Dropbox would not succeed, when it was first shown here.
- guessmyname 8y agoContext: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- noblethrasher 8y agoMore context: https://zedshaw.com/2018/03/25/the-billionaires-vs-brandonm/ https://zedshaw.com/2018/03/25/the-billionaires-vs-brandonm/
- z3t4 8y agoAs a developer it's very hard to see what kind of software normal people find useful. I happened to overhear a conversation about Dropbox, the idea that you could read-only share a document was simply amazing to them. I rolled my eyes then. But also knew at that moment that Dropbox would become very popular.