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Re:Dropbox S-1 by MrMember on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:41PM (#16449399)
There's always that one guy asking why a product exists when it's "trivial" to spin up and manage yourself.
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Re:Dropbox S-1 by FreakyT on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:04PM (#16449609)
That comment is my personal favorite HN naysayer comment of all time:

> 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

Yes, absolutely trivial. Even a child could do it. /s

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Re:Dropbox S-1 by bobsil1 on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:44PM (#16449891)
Just smelt some silicon, yadda, yadda, yadda. Trivial.
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