2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand

Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand by jb1991 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:34AM (#33717916)

Exactly this. It's not just rubik's cubes, it's also very easy to, for example, use just a few lines of bash to implement a stable, featureful sync tool like dropbox. Everyone's always making things seem more complicated than they really are.

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Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand by detritus on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:02AM (#33718112)

I genuinely can't tell if you're being sardonic here. This being HN, I guess I have to assume you're being earnest.

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Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand by jb1991 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:15AM (#33718222)

yep sorry, the Dropbox reference is a long-standing HN inside joke about comments like these. You can probably search to find the whole history of this reference, it's rather amusing.

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Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand by pvg on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:50AM (#33718541)

long-standing HN inside joke

It's more of a worn-out trope by this point and better skipped. Just sneerfully flag lame comments.

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Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand by detritus on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:51AM (#33719789)

Now now, a casual reader might mistake your grimness here for some personal interest in Dropbox's success despite its obviousness and ease of replicability... .

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Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand by detritus on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:44AM (#33719704)

I know the meme, which is why I was wondering, haha :) It's also the sort of thing that could've been meant entirely sincerely, in line with the comment of the person you were responding, being particularly painful to me as I've always had a massive mental block with Rubiks Cubes!

Dark [Rubik's] Magic that they are.

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Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand by bombcar on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:05AM (#33718149)

Mentioning Dropbox is the key to it being sarcastic.

Like someone saying “less space than a nomad. Lame.”

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Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand by umanwizard on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:23AM (#33718296)

Er... what? I don't understand how this is related at all. And yes, I know about the famous Dropbox HN comment.

I agree with the other commenter that a normal 3D cube feels much more intuitive and simple. I guess it's just personal preference/thinking style.

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