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maxdataon PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN

Even after all these years I have no idea what Y combinator is or does, nor do I care to learn. I just come here for news stories.

maxdataon Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011)

My company was largely run on dropbox as a crucial piece of infrastructure for many years before my arrival. As of a couple months ago, it has been cut out of our production pipeline entirely, but for many years, if you saw a digital out-of-home ad in certain places, it only got there because someone had added a media file and schedule to a dropbox folder. Looking back on it, it's pretty wild how much of their business relied on dropbox working reliably. Thankfully, that's all gone now.

maxdataon People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets

Thank you

maxdataon StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data

I'm a current employee in the FoC (just not StockX), and with more than a decade in software development, I am easily the least experienced on our team by several years.

maxdataon StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data

I very nearly worked there in their engineering department, but once I got through the initial HR interview into the technical stuff, there were so many red flags that I got outta there as soon as I could.

A few higher level people who were all let go with me ended up going there, and having met up with them a few times, I've heard some absolute horror stories about everything ranging from dev workload, to security, to extremely unqualified devs being hired to fill seats.

I'm not surprised by this in the least, and frankly, I'm surprised it's not worse.

maxdataon Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

Piggybacking on OP's suggestion of youtube-dl, i have this alias for quickly grabbing the audio-only version of a youtube video. (I use it when I come across a song on youtube that I can't find for sale or streaming anywhere else)

alias dl-audio='youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3'

If you have ffmpeg installed, just drop the video ID after dl-audio, and you'll get an mp3 of the highest quality audio stream available for the video.