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Fair criticism. The tricky part though with any scaled service is that for every legitimate case like this, there are many more bad actors trying to hijack accounts through exactly…

Hi Josh -- Drew here -- our escalations team should be reaching out shortly. (Losing phone, 2FA keys, etc. can be tricky but they should be able to work with you and hopefully veri…

+1 — cut my teeth on learning C in middle school by hacking up a DikuMUD derivative. So many great memories of that period. And not just C but Linux (Slackware!), sockets, even klu…

Qlora + axolotl + good foundation model (llama/mistral/etc, usually instruction fine tuned) + runpod works great. A single A100 or H100 with 80GB VRAM can fine tune 70B open models…

This strikes me as a good place to start, both for founders who are running something for the first time and also for more experienced execs as a good review of the fundamentals. I…

To be clear (if you only read the headline :)), not entirely remote. Solo work at home, collaborative work in "studios", basically reimagining the offices into collaborative/conven…

IMO this post has some good points but makes the executive sound like a passive referee, ultimately misunderstanding what High Output Management (also one of my favorite books!) is…

Thank you Paul and Jessica for taking a chance on us — we wouldn’t be here without you and YC :) And thank you HN — I’m pretty sure the upvotes on the original screencast helped us…

it's not going anywhere :) (actually, come work on it: https://www.dropbox.com/jobs :))

yes we are :)

If you've been following Dropbox for a while, you know that we've always tried to keep it simple -- in reality, the stuff under the hood is pretty complicated. Sometimes creating "…

wildly out of context (comically so if you know me IRL) -- oh well :)

UI isn't the only platform-specific thing in the code; we have a bunch of (non-Python) native code on each platform to monitor filesystem changes.

just so everyone knows, this complaint raises old issues that we addressed in our public blog post a few weeks ago: http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=735

we have a variety of easy-to-use sharing mechanisms (public links, shared folders, etc.) that people have been using for a long time for legitimate uses. to be clear, we _never iss…

We didn't file a takedown to github -- the author voluntarily took the code down

correct -- fixed this distinction in my reply, thanks

i can promise you we're not trying to piss off the HN audience, but sometimes we manage to anyway :)

drew from dropbox here. i hope you guys can give us the benefit of the doubt: when something pops up that encourages people to turn dropbox into the next rapidshare or equivalent (…

go for it :) jobs+hn@dropbox.com

yes, hence the title "TC Cribs"

no, it's not. it's saying that if you can quickly gain an audience (the hard part) by deliberately making a "feature" that can spread quickly (instead of a full-fledged product) yo…

thought i'd weigh in on this obviously if you are an amazing engineer without a degree, of course come talk to us. arash, my cofounder and the slacker that he is, does not have his…