Rclone: rsync for cloud storage

Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by dsacco on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @01:04PM (#12399784)

>> Colin (guy who founded and runs tarsnap) also has won a putnam award for his work in mathematics and crypto.

Colin won the Putnam as an undergraduate student. The Putnam award is not a mathematics research award like the Fields Medal or the Abel Prize. It's a mathematics competition. As such, Colin didn't win the award for any particular work.

It's still quite impressive though. I would say Colin's work developing scrypt has more applicability to cryptography than his Putnam award.

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Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by SEJeff on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @01:21PM (#12399926)

Sorry you're entirely right. I just can't get over how unbelievably amazing this is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

One of the best comebacks in HN history.

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Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by jdeibele on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:52AM (#12406305)

Thanks for the reference. Interesting to see Drew Houston popping in because he was just starting getdropbox.com

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Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by tomcam on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @09:52PM (#12402699)

...and SNAP! pg was dead right. Didn't read that thread at the time. Thank you.

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Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by chops on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @04:42PM (#12401311)

Oh man, I remember that thread when it happened. That was something else.

A glorious exchange.

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