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Not really the same, but this reminds me of the top comment of the Dropbox announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/

• dotancohen 8y ago
  My thought exactly. My one-liner dropbox client looks a lot like `rsync foo bar`.
• lewiscollard 8y ago
  Why does someone have to bring up this eleven-year-old comment any time file synchronisation or Dropbox is mentioned? Dropbox is now broken for certain Linux configurations and someone had a bit of fun writing a shell one-liner to replicate some of its functionality. Meanwhile, the original eleven year old comment was partly a throwaway remark that it didn't do anything he could not do already which means it wasn't interesting to him (plus two other points, but nobody links to it for those). That's not even "not really the same", it's "and since you mentioned Dropbox, let's make fun of BrandonM some more". It comes across as just mean-spirited and shitty to me.
  • Dylan16807 8y ago
    > any time file synchronisation or Dropbox is mentioned This is one of the most relevant topics you could quote it on, really. The post is tackling one-way sync and calling it a rough equivalent to Dropbox.