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Calm down. Sheesh. He's only giving a tutorial on how to develop a very basic Dropbox. I thought any developer would know that.
by ghj88 15y ago
Calm down. Sheesh. He's only giving a tutorial on how to develop a very basic Dropbox. I thought any developer would know that.
- cjeane 15y agoA more useful article would be a how to on setting up secure FTP. Edit: Looks like I was wrong.
- wzdd 15y agoNo, the gp has a good point. These articles seem to come up every week on HN. The point is that it's super easy to write something that syncs a folder. You can start with rsync and a cronjob, and just go up from there. Dropbox is fantastic because they haven't solved the easy problem (sync a folder on a single platform when nothing goes wrong), they've solved a very different hard problem -- sync a folder across multiple platforms, deal with corner cases, handle errors gracefully, and wrap the whole thing up in a very easy-to-use GUI. These things aren't dropbox replacements, they are reminders that dropbox is a unique product.