> Everyone wants to help each other. And people are far kinder than you may think.
I want to believe that. When I was a student, I built a simple HTML page with a feedback form that emailed me submissions. I received exactly one message. It arrived encoded; I eagerly decoded it and found a profanity-filled rant about how terrible my site was. That taught me that kindness online isn’t the default - it’s a choice. I still aim for it, but I don’t assume it.
Agree, but forever open issues doesn’t give any value too. Because you don’t know if this issue still applicable for latest version of app/library.
I think stalled issue should be closed, especially minor one.
It’s the opposite. The older the bug, the less likely it will be fixed. Those old bugs are one of the most reliable sources of information how the software behaves.
Especially when it’s the developer that is inactive. Like, we’ve ignored you for 7 days and now we have committed to ignoring you forever. If I find this I won’t even bother filing a report. I get that we’re not owed attention, but they’re not owed bug reports. As a dev I have won’t fixed issues due to lack of dev time. I think the problem is when it’s paid software, or an open source project connected to paid software. There seems to be a push of testing onto the users which is disastrous when combined with a policy of ignoring them. Microsoft went through a period of aiming for two testers for each dev. Post my tenure it seems that devs are supposed to the test themselves.
We've been hearing the other side's point of view for years in the papers, on commercials, in the news and on talk shows all painting an elderly woman whose genitals were melted off as a parasite trying to take advantage of a large corporation.
This is the first bit of dialogue from the site's video:
HOST: "What do you think of the movie?"
FIGLEY: "I saw it as propaganda. Well done propaganda... But, propaganda."
So says the panel of tort reform supporting lawyers and professors.
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Edited to add: The piece makes the point that the film "Hot Coffee" is propaganda. I believe that gives me leeway to do the same here.
Also if you have a somewhat okish wheel+pedals Project Cars, Assetto Corsa (needs ReVive) and Dirt rally are all great experiences. Though this doesn't take advantage of the room scale stuff (so can be done with an Oculus) but still found that great enough to go and buy a Vive for my home racing sim setup.
H3VR seems so mundane if you hear someone describe it:
"Yeah, it's a game where you get to shoot a variety of guns, all of which are very nicely modeled and have accurate mechanics like bolt handles that work etc in a variety of shooting ranges"
I mean, who would want to play that... but when you do, oh my goodness is it satisfying. The fact that it's VR makes rather mundane sounding experiences incredibly immersive and great. I've pretty much stopped playing all the great "normal" non-VR games that I bought in the steam sale because of VR.
Now imagine if you could create a triple A game on this platform. Holy fucking shit, it's going to be the end of the world.
(First off, as a disclaimer, I no longer work for Dropbox, I don't speak on their behalf. I've only used the feature as a user.)
I don't know a common search/find system that open()s or read()s files during the search by default. AFAIK Spotlight and Windows search are indexed searches. As for the indexing operations, I don't know how that is handled, they could disable indexing for remote files, or they could somehow integrate with indexing.
Based on my testing of a pre-released version of the feature (it isn't released yet), if you were to do something like `find ~/Dropbox -type f -exec md5 {} +`, it would download files.
As a user it did exactly what I expected. I was truly amazed. It was totally seamless and amazing.
Compared to the complexity of what has already been implemented, solving the problem of "I want to recursively open/read every file in my Dropbox, but I don't want it to download terabytes of data and fill by hard drive" seems fairly simple. For example there could be a setting for the maximum about of space Dropbox will use up, e.g., 40 GB, plus Dropbox could be smart enough to detect disk usage. If you `grep -R` it may download/open/read the files, once you reach 40 GB or near your disk capacity, Dropbox could start removing local copies of files that are not pinned to be local, i.e., remove the files that were downloaded because of the open()/read(), not the files you explicitly told it to keep local. I don't know how the team will choose to implement these features, but I'm confident that it will be well-thought-out and tested.
Remember, Dropbox is the company that especially monkey patched the Finder to get the sync icons (http://mjtsai.com/blog/2011/03/22/disabling-dropboxs-haxie/). They will go to great lengths for a seamless user experience, and do a ton of testing. I have no doubt that when Project Infinite is widely available it will be amazing, seamless, and have functionality many people thought wasn't possible or only dreamed existed.
Valid question. I wouldn't be happy if I ctrl-f on "My Documents", do a search and a 1 TB download starts up invisibly in the background filling my hard drive.
I suppose any company that is giving all their encrypted data to Dropbox to begin with may be OK with it. But most companies are already sketched out by the mere fact that their data is accessible to anyone outside the company.
In any event, if they were to index and provide search as a service as well, I wouldn't think it's something they do quietly. It would most likely include it's own huge marketing campaign.
Could Dropbox detect repeated access patterns from the same process, and/or whitelist processes as known "searchers," and start returning blank files? This seems like the kind of problem only a unicorn would dare to tackle, but as luck would have it...?
You want to save space by not having data on your local system but use a local search to look in the contents of files not on that system? You can't have your cake and eat it too.
I believe this is not the case here. In order for the files to start taking space on your drive you would actually need to right click that folder and choose "Save a local copy".
This is what I was wondering - we'd have to be careful writing a script that happened to traverse into the dropbox folder, because it might try to inflate all the files. It still seems like a cool idea, but I wonder if they have a workaround.
Spotlight is enabled by default _and_ left enabled on basically all the Macs and Mac users are actually a big userbase for Dropbox. It is very unlikely Dropnox team will forget that Spotlight indexing is running in the background.
Does not mean the files will get indexed, but there is no chance that Spotlight will trigger a unexpected terabyte download in the background.
I want to believe that. When I was a student, I built a simple HTML page with a feedback form that emailed me submissions. I received exactly one message. It arrived encoded; I eagerly decoded it and found a profanity-filled rant about how terrible my site was. That taught me that kindness online isn’t the default - it’s a choice. I still aim for it, but I don’t assume it.