News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Congrats Dropbox. Parent comment

Re:Congrats Dropbox by pjc50 on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:45PM (#16659964)
The secret is that it's not basic.

If it were basic, then it would be standard as you say. Therefore it must be a lot more complicated.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Congrats Dropbox by amelius on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:54PM (#16662916)
It's basic in the sense that git and rsync are basic: they are standard tools that everybody expects nowadays. I'm not saying the tech is trivial.
[ Parent | on HN ]