3 ms·
The Hacker News response to Dropbox is probably the funniest ever.
by shaky-carrousel 3y ago
The Hacker News response to Dropbox is probably the funniest ever.
- ethbr0 3y agoI think people unfairly poke fun at the Dropbox skepticism on HN. As a linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
- weird-eye-issue 3y agoIs this a joke...? God I hope so. Absolutely clueless
- vlunkr 3y agoYes, it's a reference to the original HN thread.
- dharmab 3y agoYou and I have very different definitions of trivial
- askafriend 3y agoNobody cares about linux users. If you can't deliver the value of what you described to normal people, it just doesn't matter. That's why Dropbox is a $7B+ company today - because they were able to commercialize something that previously was only accessible to a few people who knew weird computer commands. To the normal person none of this is "quite trivial". EDIT: I missed the joke. I get it now. Well-played OP.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- codegeek 3y ago"CVS". That gave it away :).
- Freedom2 3y agoI have a few qualms with your solution...
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- dang 3y agoThat comment has been super unfairly characterized over the years. The commenter was being nice and trying to help Drew with his YC application. Past explanations of this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20brandonm&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...