<story><title>Amazon Prime Air</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/b?ref_=tsm_1_tw_s_amzn_mx3eqp&amp;node=8037720011</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnriot</author><text>Dropbox is for people that can&amp;#x27;t use rsync+git. For the unix-competent, it&amp;#x27;s not particularly difficult and we managed for many years with the previous tools, rsync+svn or even rsync+cvs</text></item><item><author>esusatyo</author><text>Hacker News on Dropbox: Why would anyone want this? I can do this already with my home PC, all I need to do is install package xyz and let it run in the background. How does this handle duplicates, this is doomed to fail.</text></item><item><author>jmduke</author><text>(Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but not for anything related to this.  This is the first time I&amp;#x27;m learning of Prime Air.)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m somewhat disheartened by the skepticism of a lot of comments from HN, Reddit, and Twitter.  Not stuff like &amp;quot;I wonder how they&amp;#x27;ll handle adverse weather&amp;quot; (which I think is intellectually interesting) but stuff like &amp;quot;As soon as one of these kills a dog it&amp;#x27;s done for&amp;quot;.  What merit is there in rooting for failure for failure&amp;#x27;s sake?  This feels like science fiction in the best way possible.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea whether or not this will work, but I sure hope it does.  It&amp;#x27;s incredibly exciting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sanderjd</author><text>Yeah I really miss the good old days when I could take some pictures and all I had to do to send them to my mom was provision a server with a static IP address I could send her along with some links to rsync tutorials. Can&amp;#x27;t believe Dropbox had to come around and make everything so much harder...</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Prime Air</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/b?ref_=tsm_1_tw_s_amzn_mx3eqp&amp;node=8037720011</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnriot</author><text>Dropbox is for people that can&amp;#x27;t use rsync+git. For the unix-competent, it&amp;#x27;s not particularly difficult and we managed for many years with the previous tools, rsync+svn or even rsync+cvs</text></item><item><author>esusatyo</author><text>Hacker News on Dropbox: Why would anyone want this? I can do this already with my home PC, all I need to do is install package xyz and let it run in the background. How does this handle duplicates, this is doomed to fail.</text></item><item><author>jmduke</author><text>(Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but not for anything related to this.  This is the first time I&amp;#x27;m learning of Prime Air.)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m somewhat disheartened by the skepticism of a lot of comments from HN, Reddit, and Twitter.  Not stuff like &amp;quot;I wonder how they&amp;#x27;ll handle adverse weather&amp;quot; (which I think is intellectually interesting) but stuff like &amp;quot;As soon as one of these kills a dog it&amp;#x27;s done for&amp;quot;.  What merit is there in rooting for failure for failure&amp;#x27;s sake?  This feels like science fiction in the best way possible.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea whether or not this will work, but I sure hope it does.  It&amp;#x27;s incredibly exciting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8bitpony</author><text>Guess what? There are millions of people that can&amp;#x27;t use rsync + git.</text></comment>