Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by allenz on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:32PM (#16125757)

I apologize for calling this person out, but I found this funny:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

"quite trivially"

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by allenz on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:31PM (#16126409)

To be honest this was my first reaction to Dropbox as well: just set up a VPN. Looking back, it's clear that I underestimated the advantages of Dropbox and the size of the market. Drew was prescient in identifying an elegant solution to this universal problem.

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by laxatives on Thursday January 11, 2018 @08:42PM (#16129767)

Probably a significant chunk of the world's economy is from taking an already existing product and making it more accessible.

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by wh-uws on Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:27PM (#16130402)

You should put this quote on of those startup tshirts or posters and sell it.

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by laxatives on Friday January 12, 2018 @07:33PM (#16137522)

You do it. A good chunk of that is copying an alraedy existing product.

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by make3 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:25PM (#16126345)

and get a static ip or a dyndns account, and forward the port on your router. And then make sure your machine is never down. It's really a time waster for the average dev ofc

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by wott on Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:02PM (#16126694)

"getting a FTP account" ≠ "self-hosting a FTP server"

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by make3 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:56PM (#16127758)

fair

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by goialoq on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:31PM (#16128087)

> For a Linux user

aka approximately no one, and certainly not anyone with a smartphone (technically Linux but you can't set up all these services easily).

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by sctb on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:03PM (#16127289)

We've banned this account.

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