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Do iPhones use standard MicroUSB? The non-standard port is a business decision.

Yeah, I was wondering whether he meant to write "I can't agree more".

http://xkcd.com/667/

Yeah, "0.9999... != 1" posts would never happen on HN :)

I got some, can you dupe me a GPOW? TPTPTPTP~~~^_^

How would one know this is a nuke? Earthquakes happen.

Pretty! I had wanted to make something like this, but one feature I thought of and you didn't do: For the entered regexp, generate 20 random matches and show them to me.

Use case for this feature: You encounter an undocumented regexp in someone else's code and want get a few quick examples of what it matches.

Mechanism: I wrote myself a Google doc with my new year's resolutions and I'm going to set Astrid reminders to review them quarterly (let's say at the end of March, June, September, and in time for 2014's resolutions). I agree with @kator's comment that it's totally arbitrary. Maybe, but it's convenient! Also I'm sharing it here to make myself feel like I'm obligated to someone. :)

The full doc would be boring to put here, so here is the tl;dr version:

1. Productivity 2. School 3. Fitness

Slightly longer version:

1. Productivity - primary goal: "I will be productive and inspired all the time." Practically, this means wasting less time, doing more personal coding projects, learning new skills, and other things. My first task in this goal is to finish reading and start implementing GTD. A couple of inspiring discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979938 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982649

2. School (I am a master's degree student) - primary goal: "I will finish all my course requirements and at least 70% of my thesis research and writing". (The definition of 70% is "feels like 70%".) Secondary goal: "My school time will be much more relaxed and awesome than it is currently, and I'll leave more time for side projects, side work, and personal stuff."

3. Fitness - primary goal: "By the end of 2013 I will be stunningly sexy." Inspiring discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196

Correction: It appears I'm wrong and you're right.

From your reply, it sounds much worse than I thought. I had no idea my team admin could see all my data until now!

If joining a team account changed after your October changes, then maybe it's okay now. But I included in my post the email I got for joining the team, and it makes no mention of the fact that the team admin now owns my data. One would think this email should be less bland and more cautioning.

A lot more storage and some more features.

Hey, OP here -

First of all, in Dropbox's defense, I probably did not give you guys enough time to respond before going public with this (also, living in Israel I sometimes forget that Sunday is a weekend for most people in the world). I apologize for that. I am not a journalist/blogger, and I was driven more by my emotions than by "journalistic ethics" (?) when submitting to HN.

Second, according to your support email (updated the original post with it) it looks like my particular case is going to be resolved. However, it does not seem to resolve the malicious use case I hinted at (and which people on HN did not seem to want to discuss that much): Give someone a terabyte as a gift, and then delete their account. In fact, from the support email it seems like it's even worse: The support staff will need the team admin to approve the account re-enabling. In the malicious case, the admin would not approve.

[EDIT: Recalled a third point I wanted to make.] Third, regarding what you said "it's not possible for us to differentiate between Team data and personal stuff in the same account". I simply don't understand why this is true. Maybe the general case is not like mine, but my Dropbox folder just has a bunch of subfolders, exactly one of which belongs to the "team". Is it possible that certain folders have mixed personal-and-team content? How does that even work? If you saw my account (I don't know if you can... but your code can) it would be blatantly obvious which folders (all but one) are personal.

I have never received such an email. I totally did not see it coming when my account was deleted.

I didn't even notice that until now, and definitely not when I originally clicked the link :)

As far as I know you can't get anyone's files if they don't explicitly share them (or put them in the Public or team folder).

That's good personal advice - but it's not really a solution to the problem for everyone.

OP here - (in my story) the Teams account creator did not do this out of cruelty, they just didn't know this is what Dropbox does. I imagine very few people realize that this is how it works.

What should've happened is this: revoke my access to the team folder and downgrade my account back to Free. (Then, annoy me and refuse to sync until I go down to 2GB of usage.) That would be good design.

If it's hard it's due to bad design. It could've been possible.

Thanks :)

I don't think making a new account just for your Teams access is very convenient. The desktop application is only associated with 1 account at a time.

So (until Dropbox changes something) there does not seem to be a good solution to your question.

This is kind of an encouraging question. To me it screams "people don't know C anymore, capitalize on your skill while you still can".

You can add those IPs as "www.facebook.com" in your hosts file and then the site becomes accessible.

Yup, that worked. However it's pretty useless as nobody else is online :)

Down here (Israel).

+1. Good night :)

Good times, Skywing :)