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Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by NoraCodes »

vbezhenar wrote: post #50
chrisseaton wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems unnecessarily snarky. You can make anything sound silly by reducing its functionality to the most basic level possible, ignoring all aspects of ergonomics and packaging. And you could make this comment about any storage engine. Like the infamous Dropbox comment here.

What's wrong with Dropbox comment? I still didn't find any use for this service, but rsync works for me almost every day. IMO Dropbox is useless.

Many people do find it useful, and the people who created it have become very wealthy.

I'm in the same boat as you, but there are more kinds of people and situations in the world than just us.

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by amelius »

chrisseaton wrote: post #40
pydry wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dropbox explained itself pretty well. A simple one paragraph why at the top of this project's README wouldnt be amiss.

For example > Its trivial to set up and operate kvass across multiple devices > remember the file we stored earlier? Let's get a shareable url for it!

> Its trivial to set up and operate kvass across multiple devices

Still, using a distributed file system is so much better, as its API is supported by basically everything else (including Dropbox!).

I feel that a key-value store goes against the Unix philosophy and is solving an imaginary problem.

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by chrisseaton »

vbezhenar wrote: post #50
chrisseaton wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems unnecessarily snarky. You can make anything sound silly by reducing its functionality to the most basic level possible, ignoring all aspects of ergonomics and packaging. And you could make this comment about any storage engine. Like the infamous Dropbox comment here.

What's wrong with Dropbox comment? I still didn't find any use for this service, but rsync works for me almost every day. IMO Dropbox is useless.

> What's wrong with Dropbox comment? ... IMO Dropbox is useless.

That's just repeating the original ignorant Dropbox comment. Over 15 million paying users don't think Dropbox is useless. And hundreds of millions of non-paying users don't either.

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by dheera »

In case anyone is wondering about the name, it's a Slavic fermented bread drink that's much less alcoholic than beer (and commercially canned versions are near zero alcohol). It's one of my favorite chilled summer drinks, and you should be able to find it in Slavic stores in the US as well.

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

#56

Post by t0astbread »

yreg wrote: post #43
izhak wrote: post #36

Not trolling or trying to downplay anybody here, but honestly - how “kvass” (readed as “k-v-ass” given it is a “key-value” storage) is a good name?..

About as good a name as the password manager which I'm unable to read in any other way than keep ass . (Just in case you are unaware, kvas/kvass is a traditional north-eastern europe drink.)

> the password manager which I'm unable to read in any other way than keep ass

I've never read it this way but now I can't unsee it.

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by dadoge »

chrisseaton wrote: post #27
markstos wrote: post #9

For personal use, I’ve had good luck storing things in files. Then when I need those those things, I read the files.

This seems unnecessarily snarky. You can make anything sound silly by reducing its functionality to the most basic level possible, ignoring all aspects of ergonomics and packaging. And you could make this comment about any storage engine. Like the infamous Dropbox comment here.

Out of curiosity, what is the infamous Dropbox comment?

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by mkoryak »

Somewhat unrelated: Can one buy kvass starter in the United States, and if so, what is it called?

I'm not interested in bottled kvass, it never tastes like the real thing and you don't get to watch kvass explosions in the bottle as it is being made

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by whenlambo »

dadoge wrote: post #57
chrisseaton wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems unnecessarily snarky. You can make anything sound silly by reducing its functionality to the most basic level possible, ignoring all aspects of ergonomics and packaging. And you could make this comment about any storage engine. Like the infamous Dropbox comment here.

Out of curiosity, what is the infamous Dropbox comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

#60

Post by lkschubert8 »

dadoge wrote: post #57
chrisseaton wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems unnecessarily snarky. You can make anything sound silly by reducing its functionality to the most basic level possible, ignoring all aspects of ergonomics and packaging. And you could make this comment about any storage engine. Like the infamous Dropbox comment here.

Out of curiosity, what is the infamous Dropbox comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

The gist is the original yc debut of Dropbox had a comment that described a pretty technical way to get the same functionality as drop box. It's commonly referenced when folks on hackernews dismiss a product when they can do the same with 10 unix commands, not realizing they might not be the target customer. Interestingly I think this situation is the exact opposite, Kvass seems to be more complicated for a non technical user than file systems as the top level comment responded with.

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