Dan Luu personal blog
Files Are Hard
I haven't used a desktop email client in years. None of them could handle the volume of email I get without at least occasionally corrupting my mailbox. Pine, Eudora, and outlook have all corrupted my inbox, forcing me to restore from backup. How is it that desktop mail clients are less reliable than gmail, even…
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- HN comments
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- 40 commenters
Systems & PerformanceSoftware Engineering2015
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 2015 | Files Are Hard by pyb | 451 | 151 |
| Dec 1, 2019 | Files Are Hard (2015) by signa11 | 170 | 50 |
| Mar 30, 2018 | File consistency (2015) by navinsylvester | 127 | 26 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 44 Hacker News comments by 40 different people, from Mar 2016 to Oct 2026.
Most recent:
- arc-in-space · Oct 13, 2026
- devilsdata · Apr 15, 2026
- matja · Apr 15, 2026
- defrost · Feb 22, 2026
- reitzensteinm · May 9, 2024
- db48x · Oct 12, 2023
