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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by ChrisSD on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:15PM (#18348485)
If you want to impress developers wouldn't you simply get an FTP account, mount it locally with curlftpfs, and then use SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem?
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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by guessmyname on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:28PM (#18348588)
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by noblethrasher on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:17PM (#18348940)
More context: https://zedshaw.com/2018/03/25/the-billionaires-vs-brandonm/
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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by z3t4 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:47PM (#18349170)
As a developer it's very hard to see what kind of software normal people find useful. I happened to overhear a conversation about Dropbox, the idea that you could read-only share a document was simply amazing to them. I rolled my eyes then. But also knew at that moment that Dropbox would become very popular.
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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by swift532 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:25PM (#18348571)
What even?
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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by sbradford26 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:35PM (#18348635)
It is making fun of the one of the top comment that was on the Show HN Dropbox.

Here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Ninja'd, should have refreshed.

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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by spiderfarmer on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:37PM (#18348655)
Someone mentioned the existence of this FTP "solution" as a reason why Dropbox would not succeed, when it was first shown here.
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