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If you're confused as to what this project is about or why it's important, I highly recommend watching the first ~10 minutes of the video posted on the main sit

If you're confused as to what this project is about or why it's important, I highly recommend watching the first ~10 minutes of the video posted on the main site. Brad Fitzgerald does a much better way of explaining the value proposition. I personally think this is one of the most hugely important ideas/protocols to come out of the last decade. Even if Camlistore doesn't do it, it's hard to imagine software programmers of the future not agreeing on a shared protocol to fill this huge, huge need. I actually wrote a proposal for a Mozilla grant recently outlining a couple of the reasons why decoupling storage from user interface is a fundamentally good thing for society[1]. [1]https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/stop-letting-facebook-own-your-data-web-applications-should-ask-you-for-your-data-not-the-other-way-around https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/sto...

aeontech 12y ago
You meant Brad Fitzpatrick :)
- zellyn 12y ago
  http://www.wrongfitz.com/ http://www.wrongfitz.com/ :-)
  - fletchowns 12y ago
    The fact that this exists is pretty hilarious!
  - Intermernet 12y ago
    Genius, although I feel sorry for all the other Fitz's out there that get left out..
    - lovemenot 12y ago
      wrongwrongfitz.com should still be available: wrongfitz as a service.
XorNot 12y ago
I'm 18 minutes in and I have no idea what they're actually doing. I get what they seem to think they're doing. But "storing arbitrary" data is a problem everyone in the world is trying to solve. It's what a filesystem is. It's what backup tools do. It's a pretty well attacked problem. A bunch of SHA1 hash addressed data is almost as useless as a raw disk with no filesystem. Similarly, I'm seeing a lot of JSON. Who says JSON will be remembering in 80 years? It's ASCII! But that's not much of a guarantee. There's a lot of claims here, which don't seem to translate into something which seems actually useful. For example, "immutable" sounds good till you run out of disk space because you have 1000 copies of a sightly different VM image in the system. It's pretty easy to build a system which stores "everything". It's a lot harder to build one which is useful.
- ossreality 12y ago
  Talk about completely missing the point. This has block level de-dupe. How the hell did you get 18 mins in and miss that?

aeontech 12y ago

You meant Brad Fitzpatrick :)

zellyn 12y ago
http://www.wrongfitz.com/ http://www.wrongfitz.com/ :-)
- fletchowns 12y ago
  The fact that this exists is pretty hilarious!
- Intermernet 12y ago
  Genius, although I feel sorry for all the other Fitz's out there that get left out..
  - lovemenot 12y ago
    wrongwrongfitz.com should still be available: wrongfitz as a service.

XorNot 12y ago

I'm 18 minutes in and I have no idea what they're actually doing. I get what they seem to think they're doing. But "storing arbitrary" data is a problem everyone in the world is trying to solve. It's what a filesystem is. It's what backup tools do. It's a pretty well attacked problem. A bunch of SHA1 hash addressed data is almost as useless as a raw disk with no filesystem. Similarly, I'm seeing a lot of JSON. Who says JSON will be remembering in 80 years? It's ASCII! But that's not much of a guarantee. There's a lot of claims here, which don't seem to translate into something which seems actually useful. For example, "immutable" sounds good till you run out of disk space because you have 1000 copies of a sightly different VM image in the system. It's pretty easy to build a system which stores "everything". It's a lot harder to build one which is useful.

ossreality 12y ago
Talk about completely missing the point. This has block level de-dupe. How the hell did you get 18 mins in and miss that?