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Remember, not everyone is a hacker. For my non geek friends, Dropbox is magic. It just works. I could imagine the world 1000000 times better if everyone can fi
by xuki 16y ago
Remember, not everyone is a hacker. For my non geek friends, Dropbox is magic. It just works.
I could imagine the world 1000000 times better if everyone can fire up a shell and do something with that. Sadly it's not the case.
- gfodor 16y agoYeah my point here wasn't that I don't understand how Dropbox is useful in general, it's just that this article is by a hacker and he says Dropbox is the "best piece of software written in the last 5 years" and I seem to survive without using it whatsoever. Being able to send files to people makes sense, but 9 times out of 10 e-mail does the job there just fine. I'm still not getting it, I guess :) Maybe my life is just too boring.
- yjhall 16y agoOK, I'll give you a great use of Dropbox for hackers: Let's say you use Mercurial instead of Subversion. If you have your Mercurial project in Dropbox, you have at your disposal the full source control functionality provided by Mercurial and automatic backups of your mercurial repository. Get it now?