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Re:Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator by petepete on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:19PM (#20403394)
This is like comparing Dropbox to "having an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem".

Yes, you could. Or you could use something that's polished and works, with a clean UI and years of real world testing.

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Re:Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator by mikeash on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:53PM (#20403800)
For anyone missing the joke, when the Dropbox announcement was posted to HN, that was exactly the reaction it got.
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Re:Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator by traderjane on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:22PM (#20403448)
The part that sticks out to me is that it only runs on Apple stuff. I imagine lots of Apple users are multi-device households.
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Re:Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator by msla on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:55PM (#20408986)
> Yes, you could. Or you could use something that's polished and works, with a clean UI and years of real world testing.

It doesn't work on most computers, of course.

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