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gregsadetsky

9,927karma·1,664submissions·November 7, 2010
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Cofounder of a web mapping startup acquired by Apple.

Received awards from the US Coast Guard and the Governor General of Canada for creating a map that helped rescue 1,700 people during Hurricane Harvey.

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Currently refurbishing laptops with robots! https://www.reviserobotics.com/ (YC W25).

Also worked on Disco, an open source self-hosting software: https://disco.cloud/

See my talk about it at the Recurse Center: https://youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M

And this (slightly less chaotic) Devtools FM episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3JJpbCRP0

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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology

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I was curious to try, so I followed the project's Makefile to create floppy.img and than ran it in a web x86 emulator. It worked! Grab the floppy.img file here: https://paste.c-net.org…
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I started learning the saxophone at about the same age than you. I agree that daily practice changes everything in terms of progress — one trick (suggested by my teacher) is to always have the instrum…
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I just clicked it in Chrome and Mobile Safari and they both bring me to a regular Google Sheets web page. I tried in incognito mode too and it was the same. What browser are you using?
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Thanks! Clickable link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVs... …
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Wow, that’s fascinating and a bit bananas. Source code for (the whole shader? One of its parts?): https://github.com/libretro/glsl-shaders/blob/master/crt/sha.…
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You can request for pages to be removed from archive.org: https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360004651732-Usin... see "How can I exclude or remove my site&…
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Good observation! It is still cached by Google: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2CZ1Lu... And there's a pastebin of it: https://pastebin.pl/…
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Sorry for posting a second comment, but this just occurred to me: Mapbox serves all of its customers’ vector tiles through AWS CloudFront. Is this a possible case of Amazon seeing Mapbox’s traffic num…
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Thank you, great observation! "Amazon Location supports open source versions of Mapbox GL JS (v1.13.0 or earlier)." Cheers
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Based on the recent license change by Mapbox[0], it means that Amazon Location's tutorial[1] suggesting to use Mapbox GL JS should be updated, right? i.e. using Amazon Location with the v2 Mapbox…
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Thanks a lot! I look forward to that. Congrats on such a great tool
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I just confirmed while testing vd, it does save to sqlite (select cols/rows, ctrl-s to save, name your file something.sqlite, done!) That's really awesome. I might write a plugin [0] to load…
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patio11 elsewhere here: "Stripe Treasury is presently only for businesses serving businesses"
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Just tried, that works too! Thanks
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What @tomxor said! To try it out, go to https://example.com and run the following setup code first: c = document.createElement('canvas'); document.body.appendChild(c); x …
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Amazon's revenue is ~10k/second. Based on a recent 15B/year YouTube revenue figure I found, that would mean ~$500/second.
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Thanks for the reference! Here's the video version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_6AYX42gkU …
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You're referring to the salary negotiation service i.e. 10x Ascend? They can definitely help with offers outside of the U.S. As for the main agency (10x Management), they also have people from al…
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At the time, I had co-founded a startup that had had an exit. The people represented by 10x are typically quite varied in the way that they get to do this kind of work. I've recommended freelance…
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Hey, I see that Max commented here, but just in case it can be helpful, I was briefly quoted in the article and have also been represented by 10x since 2013. AMA..? 10x does stellar work - as Max said…
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Yes they did, to help digitize Google Books and archives of NYT -- (from wikipedia) "The system helped to digitize the archives of The New York Times, and was subsequently used by Google Books fo…
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Congrats, it's really great! I have a few thoughts/suggestions, but first: Does anyone know of a competitive/practice typing site (as TypeLit, or TypeRacer) where you help digitize book…
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I apologize about posting this and finding out from the comments the site doesn't work in Firefox...! I was sent this and thought it was worth sharing.
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That’s a very fair point, thank you. I do hope that the form factor, “polish” — how much of a finished product the Precursor is, and the possibility of programming/extending it can serve as an in…
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I don’t think that it’s reasonable to assume that Simon would risk his reputation by coming here to astroturf.
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You don’t know how flustered I am at your response. Thank you so, so much...!
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Bunnie (as you seem to be around here) — can the accel/gyro values be read/sampled? They’re listed under the “anti-tamper” category on crowdsupply so I wasn’t sure. Are there some specs on m…
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Hey! You might want to look into the public Creative Developers slack -- http://creative-dev.herokuapp.com/ -- there's a good community there. Also, look into what the School for…
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