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nostrademons on March 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hard Tech is Back

They reverse engineered the Finder to get the DropBox icon onto the Dock with custom functionality:

http://allthingsd.com/20120815/inside-dropboxs-reverse-engin...

Hydraulix989 on March 12, 2016 [–]

Do you have anything a little more technical? I'm curious.

When I messed with Finder, I could get it to do a surprising amount of things just by editing plist files.

nostrademons on March 12, 2016 | [–]

https://www.quora.com/Many-articles-about-Drew-Houston-say-t...

david927 on March 13, 2016 | | [–]

I didn't realize they had a hard time getting the DropBox icon onto the Dock. I take it back about YC not funding 'hard tech'.

Hydraulix989 on March 15, 2016 | | [–]

Sarcasm?

david927 on March 15, 2016 | | [–]

Yes.

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