Thanks goodness I clicked on the link out of shear curiosity with this title - I might not have known it was written in Rust otherwise.
Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
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Re: Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ha. Honestly, you're totally right. I've used XHR for years but never actually for XML. When looking at WebDAV in the past I couldn't find a way to serialize/deserialize XML the same way you can with JSON (is there a way?), but I didn't realize XHR handles that natively. TIL, thanks.
You can use a DOMParser to parse XML (or HTML) from a string. const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(' ', "text/xml"); doc.querySelector("tag").getAttribute("attr") // returns "value"
Awesome, thanks! I could have sworn I looked into this and didn't find a way in vanilla JS, but definitely looks like I was wrong.
Re: Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
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That's pretty sweet, but it's an entire additional layer of unnecessary complexity. Plus it still requires everyone to implement a new protocol into their apps. Why not use one purpose-built for it? Also, WebSockets bring some nontrivial complexity. This can bite you with things like proxies and custom backends, which have to implement a special code path from normal HTTP to handle WebSockets.
Yeah... computers are hard sometimes. If you want to read and write files, there are plenty of operating system APIs to do it super simple. If you want low level access to file systems and to get into the complex parts... well WebDAV sucks because the underlying problems of file systems suck.
But you don't need that level of complexity for large classes of problems.
Re: Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
#64This is genius. Why didn't Dropbox do this?
All economic incentives for the past 20+ years have been away from "personal" computing because people flatly refuse to pay for software but for whatever reason have less aversion to paying for services. I have to repeat just to emphasize how irrational this is. People will refuse to pay $50 once for software but will happily pay $20-$50 per month for a service that offers less performance, no privacy, worse security…
>People will refuse to pay $50 once for software but will happily pay $20-$50 per month for a service
Define "people." Just because the average Joe racks up credit card debt and buys lottery tickets because they are bad at math doesn't mean that there isn't a market for wise consumers.
I am the exact opposite of your equation and flat out refuse to subscribe to anything that clearly doesn't need to be a service. (and tend to avoid the unnecessary application of a service model to SW)
>All economic incentives for the past 20+ years
...for the mass market that VCs tend to target.
And yes, I get where your data points are coming from, but there is a pendulum and no matter how rockstar your customer success folks are, the churn is going to ramp up as the pendulum swings back. (IMO of course)
Re: Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
#65Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31170815 My comment from the previous thread: I'm not sure if it actually does work this way, but this would be amazing if I could install a small daemon on my NAS/fileserver to do the scanning and indexing, which the graphical client could then pull the results of.
My simple question from previous thread, asking where the indexes were stored and who has access to them, went unanswered. Not a good look.
Re: Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
#66Kinda want to put in my e-mail address to be notified when I can download it to try.
Re: Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
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If it's any comfort, I made that calculation and decided not to sweat it, but purchase any app costing less than ~10 with about as much thought as I'd give to buying coffee.
I feel similarly, if I see a mobile app that I think might solve my problem and it's low single digits, it's practically an impulse buy. If it doesn't work out, I don't feel used. I've also happily spent $15 on an iOS app before because it was really good at what it did. It made me wonder if there's a really great market out there for an incredibly well done niche mobile app you could charge $99 or more for. A whole…
Some of the apps put out by the Omni group fall somewhere in that ballpark depending on which edition you purchase.
If a product is truly top tier, I’ll definitely consider paying a higher sum. I’ve sunk plenty into the Omni* suite over time (although I do wish they’d iterate a bit faster on OmniFocus…Todoist is pulling ahead, but I digress).
Re: Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
#68Sounds a bit like Hurd's translators.
Re: Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
#69thats called sshfs
Re: Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
#70> File discovery - Scan devices, drives and cloud accounts to build a directory of all files with metadata.
How well does this scale? For instance, I have millions of objects totaling >10TB on Google Drive. Tools that attempt to index them all tend to break down because (1) the files/list API has a page size limit of 1000; (2) accidentally nonlinear complexity.