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Re: UsesThis: Rob Pike

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post #184

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The hard thing about his vision, is safety. Carrying the cellphone means two things: The state data is available with you (it's not in the cloud) and the actual hardware is your authentication token for the things that are in the cloud. In his vision he talks about having state and everything in the cloud, login in from any terminal and doing his job. He would go to a coffee/Internet shop and do all his personal bank…

> I still dream about a Git GUI that works as a distributed Dropbox (for some specially enabled repos, not for all of them). Please look above in this thread about git-annex if you haven't heard of it. That's.. pretty much exactly what it is.

Yes, I found about it later in the thread. The perks about replying before reading everything.

I'm actually pretty excited about git-annex. The Windows GUI will probably be neglected, but as long as the pipes are good, the chrome can be fixed easily.

Re: UsesThis: Rob Pike

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post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hard thing about his vision, is safety. Carrying the cellphone means two things: The state data is available with you (it's not in the cloud) and the actual hardware is your authentication token for the things that are in the cloud. In his vision he talks about having state and everything in the cloud, login in from any terminal and doing his job. He would go to a coffee/Internet shop and do all his personal bank…

Maybe you're dreaming of http://sparkleshare.org/

Yes!!!

I will be testing this, thanks for the link.

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