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I like how the top comment in the Dropbox thread (#5) is someone criticizing it. Ah HN... Never change.

• wjk 12y ago
  http://xkcd.com/1497/ http://xkcd.com/1497/ Accurate.
  • theandrewbailey 12y ago
    I argue that http://xkcd.com/949/ http://xkcd.com/949/ is the exact criticism.
    • edvinbesic 12y ago
      "Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear." Made me chuckle, and then kind of sad since this is still standard practice for a lot of people I know.
      • liviu- 12y ago
        What are the state of the art alternatives? FTPS? Dropbox?
        • edvinbesic 12y ago
          Personally i use dropbox, we transfer or self hosted depending on the content and who I am sending it to.
        • ashmud 12y ago
          Web-based email providers that switch to Dropbox-like services when attachments are too large for email?
• TheHypnotist 12y ago
  To be fair, it was a pretty good suggestion!
  • soneca 12y ago
    And to be fairer, he droped the USB tagline.
• kachnuv_ocasek 12y ago
  It's not really criticising Dropbox per se, but rather their comparison to USB sticks.
• Mahn 12y ago
  http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ Still spot on today :)
  • tmd83 12y ago
    priceless read :)
  • MildlySerious 12y ago
    "No mention of Javascript. How is this still relevant today?"
• timr 12y ago
  It's a bit of HN lore that nickb was pg's sockpuppet. I'm not sure if it was ever confirmed, but the evidence was reasonable. Things were a little different back then. ;-)
• deleted 12y ago
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• amit_m 12y ago
  That criticism was spot-on, and dropbox actually addressed those issues.