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We're planning to partner with publishers of textbooks, test prep materials, and question banks to sell their content in our marketplace (not yet launched). It works very similar to the apple app store where we take a cut of all sales. All their content would also then get integrated with our fax-to-grade tech and analytics.
If it's an open API, couldn't you make an open source client for linux/bsd? Or is the API not fully featured?

(iCloud to FUSE would be cool, too)
the 5$/year figure is the older extra storage option for GMail/Docs/Picasa. The newer GDrive storage is 2.50$/month for 25GB.
Are they even planning Linux support?
Google raises Gmail to 10GB free, 10-fold increase since launching in 2004
Thanks, great point to plan backward. I think that's a good practice in general, not just as it relates to an incubator.
The Internet should not replace the 1995 solution. You should always use a hybrid approach.

If a friend recommends Avengers Assemble, I go see it. If I end up at the cinema out of boredem, I'll let imdb help me.

I want some website to come along which solves this for me, and neither Facebook nor Hunch nor IMDB do really.
Does anyone find the sharing to be awkward? For instance, i shared a photo and noticed it took quite a while to load for someone not signed in since lots of redirection was going on. I also shared a folder of pictures, but they simply appeared as a file listing with no thumbnail view despite thumbnail view being an option in the normal interface.

Really, the interface seems a bit plain for now. Hope they improve upon it soon.
It's still there, yeah. I do notice that we're using two different links, though. The 'upgrade' link sent me here: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage?hl=en_US which looks like this: http://cl.ly/2S07190C2B1c0z1K1z2G while yours (from the other thread here) seems to be going to https://www.google.com/settings/storage/?hl=en and looks like this: http://cl.ly/1P1I1s2K3f2H3v0e321g

(pseudo-edit while typing) I think I found it: http://cl.ly/0d3r3F1343132g131y36 (notice down at the bottom) though all the 'learn more' links just take me to the essentially-useless help home-page, rather than to a place where I could actually learn more.

What do you get if you go to my first link? Might there be time to grandfather in a better plan?

Actual edit: woah - it just started redirecting me to the more expensive option (hasn't been for the past 1/2 hour). wtf.
And it's the wealthier kids that can afford the stuff that makes them cool. It's all about getting the wealthy to feel superior to the rest of us and pretending that wealth had nothing to do with it.
* Hm, I wonder if I'll prefer this to Dropbox?

* No linux client

* Snuggle up closer with Dropbox
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Maybe you should call customer service.
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Yelp doesn't care because it doesn't affect their bottom line.

If you're not a customer, you're the product.
The icon looks a bit like a recycling symbol. This is not a good metaphor for cloud storage.

And no linux client.
Yes, although usually a keylogger is not necessary.
A few places I have worked the IT dept/Management had a VNC server running on every desktop (it showed up in the process list, I wasn't working in IT at the time).

I pointed this out to a few people who would use IM programs to 'flirt' with each other all day.
Have you seen the questions they use? They range from "which of these addresses have you previously lived at" to "which of these companies do you have a loan with" to "how much is your loan payment" among others. They're pretty creepy and made even more so by the fact that these are the same questions you answer to prove your identity to, say, the credit bureaus or your creditors. It's not the sort of stuff one should be answering lightly.
Applying the principle of anecdote==fact, I have to disagree with the first point. I tried for ages to get my parents to use Gmail instead of Hotmail and failed miserably. Drive would actually be great for them when sharing photos.

Agree with your other points though. The OCR and search sound like great things so yes, you've convinced me that Dropbox has to compete on features somehow.
the same reason 20% time is dead and requires management approval. do I really have to spell it out? (google maps started as an engineer fooling around with ajax).
> Basically, you register your app against certain mime types, and then when users install your app into Chrome, they can now open those file types directly from Drive using your app, seamlessly.

It took a minute for it to hit me how brilliant that is. I'm really interested if webgl developers will do anything interesting with this.
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What would be awesome is if this integrates with Google Music and Google Music worked in the UK. They are our files, let us listen to them.
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Absolutely no mention of how files are protected. Is encryption used? Is it technically possible for a Google employee with proper access to view your files (with private key encryption it'd be impossible)? Should we assume this is this on par with Gmail email attachments (viewable by certain employees)?
Honestly the author is over thinking his solution to the problem. The way to solve this problem is to give people the option of viewing reviews that Yelp believes are of dubious origin. Add another section to the reviews page, and let the users decide how to process the extra information but frame it as possibly being untrustworthy with an explanation of why it was tagged as untrustworthy.
I went to the drive page, it said sign up top right and I clicked it and it quoted the extremely cheap yearly figures. The button is no longer there, I guess they are amending it as we speak.
you're free to come to your own conclusion. see my response to your sister post.
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Damn, I never new there was a CAPTCHA.

really really really makes me suspicious. Just did a check to make sure that google does not integrate yelp reviews (it does not) since that is what I mostly use.

also worth noting that "bob" liked the company so much he cross-posted his review to google.

Rather interesting to see his google review history, as long as we are speculating . . .

http://maps.google.com/maps/user?uid=213714492309658467573&#...

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edit: also a bit of fun to compare these two reviews:

http://www.mymovingreviews.com/movingreviews/myself-and-my-f...

http://www.yelp.com/biz/royal-transportation-moving-and-stor...
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Don't they use Linux a lot internally, too?

It's really awful that companies such as Box, Google etc are not supporting the Linux desktop, especially seeing as desktop linux is actually a really attractive option right now - better memory management than OSX and installable on pretty much any device, and Windows is pretty much a joke for non-.NET development or unless you game.

Fuck, their Android platform is based on Linux yet they don't support Linux desktop? That's pretty shitty.
I just installed.

And it seems like I cannot edit Google Docs using MSWord/OpenOffice on my computer... I though that is point of GDrive. Am I missing something?
"Worth mentioning is Yelp's long (alleged) history of using review filtering as a de facto racket to 'encourage' businesses to sign up for their paid services."

EXTREMELY worth mentioning. If you've yelped Yelp, so to speak, you know to take their recommendations with a grain of salt and then some. Caveat emptor.

While I'm on the topic, the idea of a single company managing reputation for any given space is silly beyond words. Downright moronic, even.

Reputation is an aggregation of multiple opinions. No aggregating entity can aggregate without their aggregating principle spinning the results. Yelp is notorious for a corrupt and indeed outright criminal aggregating principle -- "we'll suppress bad reviews if you pay us and good reviews if you don't" -- but the same is true for any aggregator, whether they're aggregating based on good principles or bad, because aggregation is a form of authorship. I mean look at Hacker News vs Reddit vs Digg vs Slashdot. They all aggregate, and each has a distinctive voice.

Because of this, yes, Yelp is a useful resource, but no, don't use it for a serious purchase without going on Google. If you use Google and Yelp, you're at least polling multiple sources, so you're doing something which can access the fundamental aggregating dynamic which powers reputation in the first place. A single point of failure for reputation is a contradiction in terms!
> I love reading old YC applications. I wonder if someday, they'll become the 21st century version of Harvard Business Review case studies.

I think an accelerator application or business plan would be better than a case study simply because case studies are often written with hindsight. The HBR makes it difficult to honestly assess what real-life people thought before making a particular decision.
But it doesn't "load two images, load no images when JavaScript is disabled, depend on userAgent sniffing". The only reason PHP or GD is needed is to automatically generate alternate image sizes, which the ALA author does manually.
Yes, those high profile cases always get my blood boiling - far more than the general public's blood, apparently.

My question was supposed to be "When (and why) did police start arresting people for photographing them?" and while I don't have data to support this, I think it was a combination of a) Rodney King, and b) 9/11. The former incident demonstrated the power of personal video recording in creating problems for police. The latter incident gave police more confidence in an broader range of powers, including the tangentially related issue of enforcing ban on the photography of sensitive places (which is, of course, a rather stupid policy, but I digress).

So, greater awareness of risk plus enhanced power yielded the application of that enhanced power to reducing that risk. Could there be anything more reasonable, more human, and more evil?
If I'm in planning mode and I don't know where I should go eat burgers on Friday, I don't want to know where _not_ to go, I want to know where I should go.

Of course, if I want to look a specific place or product, pos and neg reviews are useful.
> From what I've read, Windows memory manager does the same thing - after a while, it swaps out unused pages, even if plenty of free memory is available.

Windows XP does that. It was a common source of grief. I remember it being mentioned as early as 2004. Since Windows Vista the memory manager doesn't have that problem.
In preferences I see "Sync only some folders to this computer" as an option.

Don't see an option to move the folder though, that's annoying.
Google has stopped solving user problems & started solving their own.
The bottom line for me is that I no longer trust Google enough to use this. Pricing, etc. don't matter if the privacy of my data is up for grabs.
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True, it builds on existing products, but Dropbox-style automatic uploading and syncing among different systems is an ambitious addition that deserves its own brand/launch. The "Docs" brand seems more focused on the suite of web productivity apps.
Something's "fishy" with this whole Dropbox vs. Google Drive thing: https://twitter.com/#!/SaadMalik/status/194838393874677760/p...
There's a text editor in there? I've always thought it was a great operating system but it's annoying to fire up vim every time I need to throw together a few lines of text.
Sure, I trust Google to index the contents of all my files. Why not?
Yes, now they charge governments a fee to read your data as now they have more of it.

This is a joke. I hope most people realize that.
You've outlined why the Secretary General of the UN might like this idea, but why on Earth would any of the space capable nations go along with this plan?
Am I mistaken or did I see something which said I could buy a 80gigs of storage for $20/yr while the app was installing. Now that I go back to look for it, all I see are the same prices as published in stories.
Do not expect any consistency from Sundar Pichai. He told a group of engineers to focus exclusively on a product, only to shut down their office 6 months later.
No Linux support? sad face.
If true, that would be a huge omission.

I've symlinked my ~/Documents folder into my Dropbox folder and now I rarely manually put anything into ~/Dropbox.

I wonder if it's because they know people use Dropbox this way, but they want you to put your documents into Google Docs directly?
I remember some Googlers talking about web intents last year which sounds a bit similar concept, but I guess this is something separate form that one.

They were writing about it in context of Chrome:
http://blog.chromium.org/2011/08/connecting-web-apps-with-we...
No dude, think about what you're saying. The idea you've presented isn't a solution at all. Simply stating your desire to get rid of TV commercials without explaining how to do it is not a solution.
You using Facebook is not a problem, because it doesn't affect me. However if you decide to use GMail or GA or Google Fonts or gWhatever, then it forces me into the picture and I really do not appreciate it.

How would you feel if a private company would give away free surveillance cameras to the store operators in return for telling them how many people walked through their doors? Or how would you like your real-estate agent CC'ing all your house purchase documents to a fax service hosted in another country just because it got to fax you for free? This is the state of ignorance that I am talking about. It all starts rather innocently with using gDrive to store some photos, but then bit by bit it weasels its way in and establishes new "privacy norms", where apparently privacy is a new currency - jeez, are you serious? Really? You would let someone observe you taking a shit in return for a free roll of tissue paper? This is wrong. The fact it's an established practice doesn't make it any more right, leave alone ethical. Sober up.
Might upgrade to the paid version someday
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> How could any business person in a sane state of mind choose to share its data with some 3rd party company.

Every company has to share its data somehow. You probably aren't your own ISP, or web host, or even land lord. Your company's health insurance provider knows all of your employees and even which ones are sick. Your employees likely have information on their phones and laptops about your company. Etc etc.

Google Apps (when you pay for it) comes with serious privacy agreements and certifications. Enough for government use even. Unless you have an amazingly competent team, I'd trust that Google is able to keep your data more secure than you are.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/government/trust.html
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> Why would Google - or any other company for that matter - spend time and money on something as complicated and error-prone like that?

This is a problem of technology. These tend to go away over time (e.g. Youtube's automatic copyrighted content detection). Bottom line is that the ethics and policies of the underlying company make me question the privacy of my data from the get-go.
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The pricing changed today. It is considerably less attractive now.

It looks like I'm grandfathered into $20/year for 80GB, but if I wanted to go up to 100GB the pricing is now $4.99/month.
When using class-based views, this is already built in. You can do something this:

from django.views.generic.base import View
from django.http import HttpResponse

class MyView(View):
def get(self, request):
return HttpResponse("Get request")

def post(self, request):
return HttpResponse("Post Request")

The functionality to make this "just work" (dispatch based on method) is built into django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch.
Here's one thing that bugs me; Google Drive seems to constantly use between 2 and 3% of my CPU time. That's wasteful. If I was on a laptop, this would be battery time, and on my desktop, I want those cycles to be used for distributing computing science, not random background processes that aren't supposed to be doing anything when idle.
Well, there goes my ability to trust Yelp reviews as impartial.

But if I don't trust the reviews, Yelp effectively degrades into a complicated remix of Google Maps.
There is a huge economy of scale working in Google's favor: deduplication. The more users they can de-dupe across, the cheaper their raw storage becomes. To compete, perhaps smaller backup services could agree "reinsurance" contracts with each other, exchanging lists of file hashes...
BUT will the experience be seamless and actually replicate a proper file system, OR the current experience of having files on the web (Box, DropBox, SkyDrive) and not being able to attach/read/edit files. Currently you need native integration with these online services in iOS. When will they actually be web based file systems, universally accessible via API?
I completely agree. I don't really think there is any net gain to having people dislike you. I guess the optimal situation would be to do what you like but still have lots of friends from a wide variety of groups like you. It never hurts to have more friends, but it can definitely be a setback to not have any and worse, fall into a repetitive cycle where you constantly vilify people because they associate with a group until you convince yourself that only you are worthy of your company. I know, because I have done that too and found it to be self-fulfilling and self-destructive.

People who do things differently or have a value system that is significantly different to those around them will often find themselves as outcasts as a natural biproduct of how they spend their time and the people with whom they feel comfortable. But this doesn't have to be the case. If you find that you are on your own a lot, that should be a natural occurrence and not something to strive for. I think advising an impressionable youth to look down on others who do conform is a mistake because it could start him down the course of assuming the reason he has no friends is because nobody understands him and that will continue to reinforce itself until he is a all-out recluse.

When I look back at those times in my life that I was a recluse I recognize that people were genuinely dicks sometimes, but most of the time I was just not that easy to make friends with. Socializing is a matter of give and take.
It would be easier to pickup ObjC while you are at C++ than to switch back from a web development background. Once ObjC is under your belt try to get some basic understanding of iOS development in general.

Then you can watch a few of the videos that kind of gives you a hands-on feeling since some of the drag/drop, ctrl-drag are something to see rather than to read and keep in mind. Rory Lewis and AzamSharp videos helped me a lot while Ray Wenderlich book gave some nice step-by-step instructions.

Armed with these you basically should start a real project of yours so you can learn things on the fly and those would last in your memory longer than any tutorials. Good luck! Believe me....it's hard but not crazy.
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Thanks for the response, what do you mean "their spyware"?

I'm looking for small projects and where I currently live, they're pretty rare so that's why I'm looking online. But don't worry, I'm still looking offline as well! :-P
Things will go a lot smoother once the carriers realize that all they are IS bandwidth. Unlike Cable, they didn't offer valuable content to begin with, and don't have the same leverage to delay the inevitable. Charge users an acceptable price for bandwidth based on infrastructure costs, and call it a day. It is a fantasy of theirs that they can generate revenue in other ways at this point. They don't know how, otherwise they would make their own phones and app markets. It seems corporate executives with dying business models often resort to delusional flailing strategies. I'm just not sure if they believe this is the correct route, or have to appear to be doing 'something' for the investor's sake.
no longer an attractive proposition

Depends where you're coming from...

At $50 per T/month they're 50% cheaper than Amazon S3. That's nothing to sneeze at.
Faxes are probably one of the most annoying things I have to deal with since I don't have a fax machine. Next time I need to send a fax I'll definitely try out this service - anything beats traipsing over to Albertsons!
They're doing a lot more with the data now, so I suppose it makes sense. But I wonder how many people would choose the old option for 'dumb' storage. Currently, I would, though that may change in a few months.
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> Can Google employees access your files?

Do bears shit in the woods?
Yeah, this seems kind of bogus - if I'm reading it right, you also have to be creating a webapp to use their API - so hope of implementing a Linux client on FUSE is low at this point.
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> Apps will not have any API access to files unless the app has been installed in Chrome Web Store

I wish google would try being different than apple rather than the same.
They are. I've had the 80GB storage for a few months and I got to keep it.
>That and I print out error diagnostics, the location of the error at the time, and the errno. These macros probably saved me a good decade of time finding errors in C.

Line number and file macros are freaking awesome. Out of everything on that page those should be the major takeaway for the reader.

I also think it would be a good idea to add some context to why the goto is so useful in those examples. If any of the checks fail, you're in a full-stop, stick-a-fork-in-us-we're-done error state. Since you know that the function's operations have failed, and that you should be cleaning up everything immediately, goto is the right choice.
While I'd agree if this was just a random friend he was referring to as a furry, but... this is Jay Naylor we're talking about. His being a furry is very, very, very public -- in fact, he's one of the best known furries out there. I think you're taking this entirely too seriously.
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