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- skrebbel 1y agoFWIW i think you ruined it by editing that “/s” in
- notpushkin 1y agoI thought about it for a bit, but I’m worried the author might not recognize this copypasta and try to answer it on its face value. (It is, of course, the famous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224)
- Imustaskforhelp 1y agoHaha. I guess I had heard the story of dropbox, why not ftp, but I guess this was the story! I guess it is funny to me that SVN/CVS was there in 2007 since I think git wasn't even invented at the time but now new people won't even know what SVN/CVS are, I only got to know them because I wanted to download a specific folder of github and some stackoverflow comment mentioned svn
- notpushkin 1y agoApparently, the first version of Git was released in 2005, but I’m not sure a lot of people have heard about it before GitHub has been launched in 2008. Wild times! (I was 10, my preferred source control system was “eh I have a backup somewhere I think”.)
- drcongo 1y agoThat made my morning.
- sirbread 1y agoTotally understand your doubts. I mainly made this program to solve a tiny issue that got annoying and repetitive, so I asked myself, "Can I automate this?" 1. Since I mainly use Windows (for school software to run), I cannot simply do this, considering our school blocks any 3rd part app that isn't in their whitelist. 2. Sure, it doesn't _replace_ a USB drive, but it makes it a lot easier, which can _lessen_ the use of a USB drive. 3. Again, I really just made this for myself and a couple of friends at my high school so we can share projects without too much hassle. I just wanted to share it with the world because maybe someone else has the same dumb problem, which could help them too. It's not meant to be a business, just a tool. I'll call that a win if it saves one other person from emailing a file to themselves.
- notpushkin 1y agoSorry, I might have edited that /s in too late! This is actually one of the early comments from the Dropbox launch thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224
- saaspirant 1y agoI was gonna link to the same thing! Text looked familiar
- dewey 1y agoI’d guess that the overlap of people who email themselves files also use Gmail…which would then also just have Google Drive. Why not use that?