Google Maps Platform

Re:Google Maps Platform by theDoug on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:27PM (#16982915)

Any service priced $free or not tied to a credit card tends to see people play at incredibly dumb levels of abuse. Within a month of Gmail going public I remember people already trying to string accounts together as a makeshift multi-GB FTP store.

Disclosure: I work in Google Cloud, not on this

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Re:Google Maps Platform by jedberg on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:34PM (#16982946)

Yup. As someone who ran a free service for many years, it’s amazing how creative the abusers can be.

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Re:Google Maps Platform by derivagral on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:15PM (#16983101)

For what it is worth, I had a fun college project for a class doing exactly this ("distributed filesystem".)

Back before github and dropbox took off, anyway.

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Re:Google Maps Platform by tonto on Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:50AM (#16983624)

Seems like many college os(?) classes tested making FUSE FS systems

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