{"id":228,"date":"2003-10-24T02:29:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T07:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/10\/24\/joel-on-a-different-idea-on-sharing-fi"},"modified":"2006-12-15T22:55:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:55:48","slug":"joel-on-a-different-idea-on-sharing-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/10\/24\/joel-on-a-different-idea-on-sharing-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel on a different idea on sharing files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a160'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2003\/10\/24.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2003\/10\/24Tokens.PNG\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nJoel has lots of positive things to say about this:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n This is a great implementation of a simple idea that brilliantly solves the nagging problem that it&#8217;s just not easy enough to transfer large files down the hall, let alone halfway around the world, and it&#8217;s going to take off like wildfire.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mayyybe&#8230; but you still need to download a piece of software to get this working but at least it&#8217;s reasonably cross platform.   I remain skeptical.   What happens when something goes wrong?   Does it handle this well?  What about if the company goes under what happens to the service?   Maybe I&#8221;ll try it out but I&#8217;m still skeptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel has lots of positive things to say about this: This is a great implementation of a simple idea that brilliantly solves the nagging problem that it&#8217;s just not easy enough to transfer large files down the hall, let alone halfway around the world, and it&#8217;s going to take off like wildfire. Mayyybe&#8230; but you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1215,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripe","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}