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Hack Week at Dropbox

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Re: Hack Week at Dropbox

#11

Post by appliedluck »

sayemm wrote: post #9
roxstar wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that I know of but google sync manages it quite well for smartphones (though it is syncing it to a gmail account and not dropbox).

Yeah I know google sync, but think it would be pretty awesome if I could back that all up across several different platforms via Dropbox, along with all my laptop/work stuff

I don't think I've seen anyone attempt to do it with the Dropbox API and your mobile contacts, but I'm pretty sure it could be done.

Re: Hack Week at Dropbox

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Post by chadaustin »

Well played, Dropbox. IMVU has quarterly, company-wide hack weeks but we've never written a blog post as fun as this one and CERTAINLY never exposed the list of projects we worked on. That took guts but it looks like it turned out well.

Re: Hack Week at Dropbox

#14

Post by sayemm »

appliedluck wrote: post #11
sayemm wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I know google sync, but think it would be pretty awesome if I could back that all up across several different platforms via Dropbox, along with all my laptop/work stuff

I don't think I've seen anyone attempt to do it with the Dropbox API and your mobile contacts, but I'm pretty sure it could be done.

Yup, that's what I'm thinking... I think it would be cool to hack something up like that.

Re: Hack Week at Dropbox

#15

Post by ambirex »

appliedluck wrote: post #11
sayemm wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I know google sync, but think it would be pretty awesome if I could back that all up across several different platforms via Dropbox, along with all my laptop/work stuff

I don't think I've seen anyone attempt to do it with the Dropbox API and your mobile contacts, but I'm pretty sure it could be done.

I've been playing with creating a CardDAV server, which is pretty mush shuffling vCard files around. You could probably something similar with Dropbox.

Re: Hack Week at Dropbox

#18

Post by jrockway »

colbyolson wrote: post #16
jrockway wrote: post #13

Quite the mass of cut-n-paste code on the second photo from the top.

I don't understand what you're getting at.

One of the monitors shows:

chunk of code

identical chunk of code

identical chunk of code

identical chunk of code

I found it amusing.

Re: Hack Week at Dropbox

#19

Post by albertzeyer »

jrockway wrote: post #18
colbyolson wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand what you're getting at.

One of the monitors shows: chunk of code identical chunk of code identical chunk of code identical chunk of code I found it amusing.

I doubt it is really identical. You don't really see that on the picture.

HTML looks often just like that. (I think it is HTML but you cannot really tell for sure from the picture.)

Re: Hack Week at Dropbox

#20

Post by evgeny0 »

jrockway wrote: post #18
colbyolson wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand what you're getting at.

One of the monitors shows: chunk of code identical chunk of code identical chunk of code identical chunk of code I found it amusing.

Full-size image: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2pa7akochkgsnos/IMG_0988.JPG

The blocks are similar, but not identical. If you look closely you can clearly see that the line lengths are different.

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