Beware of Sync Platforms
Any sync-platform that claims to perform automatic conflict resolution is broken. This is because conflict resolution is fundamentally a domain specific problem that cannot be magically solved by a generic platform.
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In essence, the notion of a conflict depends on the meaning that we assign to the data. Dropbox knows nothing about the meaning. It only knows the shape of the data. And that’s not enough to resolve conflicts.
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July 24, 2013 7:05 PM
[...] Link. Synchronization is hell. So is "mapping", for similar reasons. [...]
