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by dhouston 4mo ago
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 this mechanism -- so account recovery has to be conservativ
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by dhouston 4mo ago
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 verify enough to get you unblocked.)
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by dhouston 2y ago
+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 kludging the single-player DOS port to be two-player by playing
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by dhouston 2y ago
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 (and obviously scaling out to many nodes/GPU
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by dhouston 4y ago
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. In other words, I wish I had seen something like this when I
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by dhouston 6y ago
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/convening spaces that you go into from ~once/w
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by dhouston 7y ago
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 about. (Admittedly adding my own editorial here from my exp
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by dhouston 8y ago
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 get into YC and on Paul & Jessica’s radar to begin with
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by dhouston 14y ago
it's not going anywhere :) (actually, come work on it: https://www.dropbox.com/jobs :))
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by dhouston 14y ago
yes we are :)
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Dropbox seeking iOS and Android engineers
1 points by dhouston 14y ago
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by dhouston 15y ago
wildly out of context (comically so if you know me IRL) -- oh well :)
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by dhouston 15y ago
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.
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by dhouston 15y ago
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
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by dhouston 15y ago
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 issued_ any DMCA takedowns to anyone -- the OP incorrectly rece
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by dhouston 15y ago
We didn't file a takedown to github -- the author voluntarily took the code down
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by dhouston 15y ago
correct -- fixed this distinction in my reply, thanks
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by dhouston 15y ago
i can promise you we're not trying to piss off the HN audience, but sometimes we manage to anyway :)
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by dhouston 15y ago
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 (the title on HN was suggesting it could be the successor to
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by dhouston 15y ago
go for it :) jobs+hn@dropbox.com
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by dhouston 16y ago
yes, hence the title "TC Cribs"
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by dhouston 16y ago
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) you can parlay that audience into something more substantial l
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by dhouston 16y ago
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 bachelor's degree :) so hope you can give us the benefit of
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Dropbox is hiring a Web Engineer(dropbox.com)
99 points by dhouston 16y ago|95 comments
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by dhouston 16y ago
we're bummed about this. it's probably a fruitless exercise, but does anyone have any insight into how to get unblocked?
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by dhouston 16y ago
this is really impressive -- high fidelity, search, scrolling, no waiting for flash to load. congrats guys! we'd love to get this kind of previewing on dropbox
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From Zero to a Million Users - Dropbox and Xobni Lessons Learned(blog.adamsmith.cc)
138 points by dhouston 16y ago|22 comments
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by dhouston 17y ago
I've known a few people in this situation. If you're feeling completely burned out, you might want to chill out and travel around for a few weeks (or whatever) to clear your head. After that: - If you want, go back and get your degree (it o
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by dhouston 17y ago
believe it or not, this was intentional and an homage to slashdot (the concept of having low IDs that are publicly viewable), however obscure the public link feature was actually a proof of concept and never intended to stick around :) but
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by dhouston 17y ago
my cofounder arash and team definitely deserve more credit than i do.

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