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coldtea on June 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The new Dropbox

>Whatever happened to the philosophy of “do one thing and do it well”?

It was seldom the thing users wanted and could use, and ended up being relegated to the dev-oriented UNIX userland.

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