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Not really. Do you even know the mission of the Flock browser?

Sorry if I came off as being rude, it was not my intention. I was merely asking questions, but I guess it seemed harsh.

You can always go to Reddit to discuss something like this. HN is not the place.

That doesn't mean its the place for it.

I agree. Every post like this is pushing HN closer to being like Reddit. What has become of this community

I'm confused. Is javascript really that hard to use that we need CoffeeScript? Why was CS even created?

This post is best fit for Reddit, not HN. Please keep our community clean of offtopic postings

I'm curious how this classifies as "new html technology." Its letters being replaced by an images of letters in a different font. Text selection doesn't even work precisely due to the this archaic methodology. What am I missing?

Considering Dropbox doesn't do automatic upgrades (at least on a Mac it doesn't), you can always stay at an older version of the client where this new protocol isn't supported and thus Dropship still is valid. I doubt that Dropbox would ever ban previous versions of their client purely for this purpose.

Again, that requires you to:

A) move the files to the public folder

B) watch out for bandwidth limits on the public folder

C) give your Dropbox account ID to everyone as it is tied directly to the URL

With this method, you get anonymous file transfers without bandwidth limits

"Speed Up..." that is if I didn't already merge, minify and gzip my files :)

I agree. This is just another article of someone speculating what has gone wrong, possibly in order to get hits on his or her blog.

I see your point here. I hope non-public files are protected from Dropbox's deduplication

So who is game for setting up a repository site of json hash files?

I agree. I actually proposed this idea a while back but never went through with the implementation. I hope Dropbox turns a blind eye to this because I think its fair use of Dropbox. Instead of someone sending you the file and then you adding it to Dropbox manually, you can just send the hash for the file and receive without P2P. This is where the world of online storage might head anyways.

I completely agree here. Hacker News has become a reddit cesspool over the last year and the types of posts popular on reddit seem to make it over here. I will leave this community in a year because I am sure the two communities will begin to mimic each other too much.

If it wasn't John Resig who "fixed" the subreddit, then this would be lost in the thousands of pointless posts. I hardly find this something worth of HN.

This is not reddit

Next they'll have news.ycreject.com!

>"The class was originally created because some of the Cal Poly's teachers were tired of the project that students were given at the time for the Technical Writing for Engineers class"

That is not true, iFixIt CAME to the english department to ask for free content for their website but covered it as a "great technical writing experience."

>"Most of the responses from teachers and students has been positive now that we have been running the program for two years."

Uhhhh where are you getting your responses? Most people will give good reviews since YOU MAKE OUR GRADE. If you report to our teachers that we did a bad job, WE FAIL. Of course we will say we enjoyed it since you control our fate. I think its crazy that iFixIt has control over students grades.

>"and want to write a twenty page paper instead"

That is not standard practice in ANY 149 class. There is a final project but 20 pages? Thats extremely class-dependent!

Edit: and their standards are EXTREMELY high. We have to go way out of our way to meet them. Perfect cameras, perfect room lighting, perfect hands to hold the devices, perfect backgrounds... Many times we were forced to redo our guides and go well over the bounds of a 100 level class....all so iFixit could benefit financially.

Everyone in the class was pissed off at them. They make it seem like its some "education program" but in reality they are making money off our work and we get paid nothing.

Except for the fact that they force us college students at Cal Poly to do their tech write-ups for our Technical Writing class. iFixit is filled with a bunch of losers. Sorry for being blunt, but half their "how to"s are written by college students forced to make them for our grade.

Please don't get mad at this, but the reason I love hackernews is because its not like reddit has become: there are no silly posts or posts that don't relate to technology and programming. This post seems necessary for reddit, but not for hacker news. Please don't let this community change!

Have you checked out ohdontforget.com? Basically the same idea.

I created the exact same thing using Kohana but has a community aspect. My friends love it, I think this would be great if it offered community features.

My friend created the EXACT same game for iPhone two years ago and they rejected it for the same reason. Interesting.