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DanG's thoughts on the comment/'meme' you're referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275 https:/

by OJFord 2y ago

DanG's thoughts on the comment/'meme' you're referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178442 It seems he's given up fighting it in recent years, but I doubt his view or the facts have changed, and they're worth reading.

petters 2y ago
Dang writes: > about Dropbox's YC application (which is what the word "app" meant back then) But Drew Houston himself writes in the reply "most apps are written as if the disk was local". So the word "app" could definitely mean a program running on your computer as well.