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The title of the article was "4 reasons why we are leaving Dropbox" and not "10 alternatives to Dropbox", which would be an interesting, but totally different article on it's own. It is good to read about these issues, as these days many people think about moving from A to B in cloud storage.

Personally i moved all my storage, contacts and calendars over to a self-hosted owncloud instance, which i did not regret so far. But i'm not going to write an article about it ...


It's important to voice concerns with wildly popular software but not very thought-provoking. You don't get the call-to-action feel without a discussion of solutions.


Look behind you, a three headed monkey!


Very cool and addictive. Reminds me of "z-type" which already killes hundreds of my working hours. :-)


This is an app to guide you through the entire process of Design Thinking in an (interactive) online course.

It was originally build as an iPad Webapp. Now i ported it to the web to see if there is any response and interest in this app.

For now it's only in german. I am planning in proper refactoring an l18n if there is a good amount of (positive) response.


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It's for porn.


Nice job, funny idea!

Mentioning Dreamweaver should be handled as an error rather then a notice. :-)


nice tool. bookmarked and upvoted. :-) thank you.

Next level would be to turn this around and build a (nice) visual regexbuilder. The would be fing nice.


Looks really cool. And i love Python. However, I think the Python Syntax will make it hard to minify the code, which is probably not that important anyway when not in production. But for production usage it would be cool to have a real compiler instead of an interpreter.

But yeah. Cool stuff.


I guess you could just gzip your python code without minification, here's a little bench: https://github.com/jch/gzip_vs_minify


I would prefer a settings page where i can opt in oder out for certain mailings (if not mandatory) and set the timesettings myself.

Relying on the header information might lead to wrong results as some people changed settings and it relies on the browser. (Though i guess thats not valid for many users)

But while you're there, one can also set time to receive emails themself. Maybe i want to have it earlier because half of my tasks already need to be done by 7am.

Of course, the best is to combine both, having a settings page with default value gathered from the browser.

Nice article which really covers the problem many people aren't thinking about.


We do have a user override for timezone, and we're using it to track how many mistakes we're getting from the browser - we were expecting it to be pretty hit & miss, but we've actually seen great success.

Good thought about being able to change when morning emails fire. The 7am is really a relic from when we first started, even before we had the rolling timezones - we were trying to hit a time that worked for west coasters & east coasters alike, and sure enough, we got a ton of overseas users way sooner than we thought, so out came the rolling timezones. :)


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