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I remember when someone first showed me evernote with a bunch of hype. And I was like "This is pointless, I can't believe it's a company." I think we can refe

I remember when someone first showed me evernote with a bunch of hype. And I was like "This is pointless, I can't believe it's a company." I think we can refer to that as the age of 'cloud madness' where anything and everything cloud-related was the new hotness. I think we've forgotten just how strong the buzz-wordiness was around cloud, it was prolific.

barking 7y ago
I get you but if you go on to the discussion forums for evernote either on their site or reddit you'll find people who have their entire lives at their fingertips thanks to this app and for whom it's vital to their work. They use its IFTTT functionality to an insane degree such that every document they get it's one click on the phone and it's filed.
- linuxftw 7y ago
  I'm sure there's a subsection of hard-core users that find it really great. The people I interacted with it were just treating it as a document cloud. For me, I carry my work laptop everywhere when I'm working.... so I don't really need to do much on the phone.
iamnotacrook 7y ago
People still talk up cloud all the time. Well, when Slack is working, or Gmail isn't having an outage, or traffic's not being routed to China...
- acdha 7y ago
  This is a common fallacy, usually caused by people either not calculating or excusing downtime for self-hosted systems. A big one is time-to-recover: I’ve seen people disparage cloud options for years and then eat days or even weeks of downtime after the wrong server fails, and attempt to handwave reasons why that shouldn’t count the same as a 15 minute outage which was resolved before most users noticed. One contributing factor may be the difference between surprise and planned outages: if you know things are going to be down and how the work is progressing, it doesn’t seem as dramatic as an outage of unknown duration.

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I remember when someone first showed me evernote with a bunch of hype. And I was like "This is pointless, I can't believe it's a company." I think we can refe

by linuxftw 7y ago

barking 7y ago
I get you but if you go on to the discussion forums for evernote either on their site or reddit you'll find people who have their entire lives at their fingertips thanks to this app and for whom it's vital to their work. They use its IFTTT functionality to an insane degree such that every document they get it's one click on the phone and it's filed.
- linuxftw 7y ago
  I'm sure there's a subsection of hard-core users that find it really great. The people I interacted with it were just treating it as a document cloud. For me, I carry my work laptop everywhere when I'm working.... so I don't really need to do much on the phone.
iamnotacrook 7y ago
People still talk up cloud all the time. Well, when Slack is working, or Gmail isn't having an outage, or traffic's not being routed to China...
- acdha 7y ago
  This is a common fallacy, usually caused by people either not calculating or excusing downtime for self-hosted systems. A big one is time-to-recover: I’ve seen people disparage cloud options for years and then eat days or even weeks of downtime after the wrong server fails, and attempt to handwave reasons why that shouldn’t count the same as a 15 minute outage which was resolved before most users noticed. One contributing factor may be the difference between surprise and planned outages: if you know things are going to be down and how the work is progressing, it doesn’t seem as dramatic as an outage of unknown duration.