jhurwitz·7 年前·議論Jamie Turner from Dropbox gave a talk at a Rust meetup in 2017: https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-may-2017/Edit: at 30:05 in that video, he briefly talks about a forthcoming (as of 2017) "full redesign + rewrite of Dropbox's 'sync engine' in Rust." He claims it will use 10x less memory, and be 50x faster on key operations.
jhurwitz·7 年前·議論As of last year, they now offer hourly guided tours 7 days a week for about USD$10. (In fact, I was just there earlier today!)Note: it's about 1.5 hrs (each way) from Tokyo, and you need someone in your group who can speak Japanese.Reservations here: https://reserva.be/guidetour
jhurwitz·7 年前·議論Dropbox previously acquired Hackpad (YC W12), Snapjoy (WC S11), and TapEngage (WC S11).
jhurwitz·11 年前·議論For a bit of an explanation, see David's follow-up blog post: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2010/08/divisibility-by-7-is-...
jhurwitz·12 年前·議論MIT Professor Erik Demaine talks about the math behind these sculptures in this video: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall12/lectures/C19.html
jhurwitz·12 年前·議論> If any of our conditions isn’t met, we abort auto sign-in and ask the user to log in with an email and password.In this case, the install succeeds and only auto sign-in fails.
jhurwitz·12 年前·議論It looks like, as of February 2012, Chrome requires an update to receive a new revocation list: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/02/05/crlsets.html
jhurwitz·13 年前·議論This is especially relevant today given the current #1 story on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993968
Edit: at 30:05 in that video, he briefly talks about a forthcoming (as of 2017) "full redesign + rewrite of Dropbox's 'sync engine' in Rust." He claims it will use 10x less memory, and be 50x faster on key operations.