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sdizdar

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About sdizdar

Founder of a startup specialized in cloud data replication, synchronization, and backup. In previous life was manager and engineer in Oracle Database Backup and Recovery team (RMAN and Oracle Secure Backup). One of architects of HP OpenView DataProtector.

https://www.cloudHQ.net - synchronize data between Salesforce, Basecamp, OneDrive, Dropbox, Sugarsync, Evernote, Box, and Google Docs

email: senad.dizdar@gmail.com

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    Leninism, Stalinism, etc. (countries you mentioned) are attempts to fix problems with capitalism identified by Marx and Engels. Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis and it…

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    Comment #9091291

    Bugs will always exist :( - and even if your data is in the cloud it is always good make one more copy. For example, you can use cloudHQ to backup to Dropbox: https://www.cloudHQ.n…

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    Comment #8442220

    As founder of cloudHQ, I have to jump into this. Software products will have bugs. And people will make mistakes. We are all human. So even if you store data in Dropbox - it is sma…

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    Comment #5670596

    Shameless Plug: you can continuously backup all your Google email to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, SugarSync, or SkyDrive via cloudHQ ( http://cloudHQ.net ). We support txt, html, or…

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    Comment #5639156

    cloudHQ.net - San Francisco, CA - Marketing aka. Growth Hacker We are bootstrapped and profitable cloud-to-cloud replication and synchronization service. We consider ourself the ma…

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    Comment #5395117

    Shit happens and things will go down (or accidentally/maliciously deleted) so dont put all your eggs in one basket. Back in 1970s and 80s companies were replicating data between di…

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    Comment #5289627

    Or maybe we need "dropbox for email" YC S13 company.

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    Comment #4704390

    Yes, sync != backup [1]. I do agree with you but, I can tell you that selling backup service is harder than you think. Also as pointed by paper [2], the human error accounts for ~5…

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    Comment #4704281

    Yes - sync is not a backup but services as Dropbox are designed to be backup too (with their revision feature). So I think the underlaying problem here is that any backup/syncing s…

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    Comment #4339215

    I don't think generating more complex passwords will completely solve the problem. The problem is using only one cloud service for your data. Basically, don't put all your eggs in …

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    Comment #3864139

    There are few products which do different kinds of Basecamp/Dropbox/Google Docs integration. One of them is cloudHQ - we sync all Dropbox and Google Docs files with Basecamp: bi-di…

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    Comment #3578448

    One thing why this is not correct: VC money definitely helps in hiring the best team. And the team is the most important factor for making a great company.

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    Comment #3573488

    Correct. However, I don't thing the main problem is uploading/syncing data from your PC. Sooner or latter, the PCs will not be the main source of information / storage of informati…

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    Comment #3540942

    SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote or San Francisco based Ruby on Rails, jruby, java, C/C++ We are bootstrapped and profitable. Do get in touch and let's talk :) Contact: website: cloudHQ…

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    Comment #3506020

    I don't think the problem is lobbying. The problem is that we, as electoral body, are interested in politics only and only if something outrages like SOPA happens. It is not enough…

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    Comment #3490543

    Welcome to the cloud indeed. And what we discovered that just coping data to your home computer in a format which can be used back in some other cloud services is gettings harder a…

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    Comment #3461996

    There is a cool application for iPhone which does this - it is called Call Recording Pro: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/call-recording-pro/id43951645... After record is done, the …

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    Comment #3438516

    I have a question which is more legal related. It is "public" secret that US government (and other governments) have and use persona management softwares which clearly violate Face…