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Re:Ask YC: Your Favorite Hack by cperciva on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @11:26PM (#69490)
A conductor I know, when asked what his favourite piece of music is, always answers with the name of a piece of music from the next concert he's conducting -- and then goes on to point out that as soon as the concert is over and he starts rehearsals for the next concert, he will have a new favourite piece of music. As he points out, if what you're working on isn't currently your favourite piece of music (or software), you're not giving it the attention it deserves.

In that vein, my favourite piece of software is my (not finished yet, but still very useful as it currently exists) "tarsnap" backup software (http://www.tarsnap.com).

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Re:Ask YC: Your Favorite Hack by whacked_new on Thursday October 18, 2007 @02:17AM (#69566)
Good post. This is an interesting story by Tolstoy along the same lines: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tolstoy/leo/t65wm/chapter2.h...

A great king would make his "favorite man" the man right next to him. A worker would make his "favorite job" the one at hand. Now that is an extraordinary feat.

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Re:Ask YC: Your Favorite Hack by SwellJoe on Thursday October 18, 2007 @12:20AM (#69513)
Backup is such an easy/hard problem (easy to do, hard to do right), that I'd probably be afraid to tackle it. I'll have to check out tarsnap. Sounds neat.
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Re:Ask YC: Your Favorite Hack by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @11:46PM (#69493)
Looks hot. I worked with a startup when I was consulting for the Federal Reserve that did something like this. I think their name was CyberArk?

I think there's going to be a huge need for secure backup with all of the home servers that are popping up. Storage has been exploding for years, and there's no end in sight.

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