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HN has turned into the Slashdot of the 2000s. No wireless? Less space than a Nomad? Lame.


HN already had its ipod moment back in 2007. /.'s ipod moment was in 2001, not as longer before that as I would have guessed.

Re: Dropbox, from a well known user. It didn't age well and we've been asked not to repeat it because it makes the author with connections to this site's operator look bad.

> 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

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

the controversy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281


I suspect a lot of the active users on HN today don't remember Slashdot of 2000...




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