jhurwitz·há 7 anos·discussJamie 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·há 7 anos·discussAs 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·há 8 anos·discussDropbox previously acquired Hackpad (YC W12), Snapjoy (WC S11), and TapEngage (WC S11).
jhurwitz·há 11 anos·discussFor a bit of an explanation, see David's follow-up blog post: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2010/08/divisibility-by-7-is-...
jhurwitz·há 12 anos·discussMIT 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·há 12 anos·discuss> 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·há 12 anos·discussIt 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·há 13 anos·discussThis 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.