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Comment by dijit | Hacker News Reader

This is amazingly ironic to post given that the original launch post of DropBox on HN famously dismissed the business entirely by comparing it to rsync+ssh.

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That comment has been unfairly misread over the years. He wasn't being dismissive, he was trying to help them with their YC application (that's what "app" meant on HN in 2007).

Here is how BrandonM responded after Drew replied: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9479. If that's a prototypical HN dismissal, we're in the sixth sphere of Paradiso.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I'd assumed it was a quote directly from the original thread. I wonder if anyone can find it.

(see also "less space than a Nomad. Lame")

> I'd assumed it was a quote directly from the original thread. I wonder if anyone can find it.

Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Man, it's great how HN can keep unlimited posts for unlimited time, isn't it? I'm sure this place will live forever.

I don't know about forever but I do think it would be fun if people were still complaining about how the UI hasn't changed a hundred years from now.

My favorite part of that is that the author shows up as green since at the time they were a new user, despite the fact that their account is now long-established. Most CRUD apps today would get a detail like that wrong.

Were they wrong?

Would a business using a self-owned rsync+ssh solution now be shopping for yet another cloud service after yet another backtrack on promises several years in?

Whoosh

May OP's answer is now part of the meme ?

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