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gregsadetsky
9,927karma·1,664submissions·November 7, 2010
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hi@greg.technology
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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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
recent activity (1,664 total)
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I checked and checked again before submitting. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/amazon All green here -- https://status.aws.amazon.com/ -- although I cannot login …
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Average of ~~60-70k CAD in Toronto, depending on experience, specific domain, etc. Levels.fyi shows a much higher median of 130k USD for the whole country, but is also based on many FAANG jobs -- htt…
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Not GP, but there was a huge economy around banner / ads being embedded in Flash games, and those games being shared widely / distributed on many different sites. There were many "porta…
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I have an extension in the Chrome store [0] that brings dictation into GMail. I piggyback on the Web Speech API, which in the case of Chrome uses Google's servers. Considering the audio stream up…
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Got it, makes sense.
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It sounds like a really good idea (in addition to images being part of this single file PDF "archive" and thus won't go missing), but the PDFs being searchable depend on how the PDF is …
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I went through the same hell a year ago [0]. My extension [1] now has 60k users (covid added 10k users in 1 month) and I'm also afraid that any insignificant update would trigger this hell. I…
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Hey @aea12, would you be available for a quick chat? My email is in my profile. Thank you!
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I was in talks with a (new-style) 'label' that sells samples, sound packs, and VST plugins. Some of their plugins have been purchased 25k times. One of the things I've also heard from l…
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Is there anything that can be done with a non jailbroken iPhone to circumvent certificate pinning? I'm reading[0] that Frida can work "if you can include Frida’s libraries in the app - eithe…
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Hotline servers.
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Small typo / wrong link on the site -> the link to "covidhge.com" (COVID Human Genetic Effort) near the bottom of the page should be to https://www.covidhge.com/ (ri…
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Hey @avaku, I reached out to you over email. Let me know if you didn't get it (my email address is in my HN profile). I would love to chat with you about an audio app that I'm working on. Th…
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Your image appears as black on black, you might want to re-upload it or edit the URL. I could only see it by dragging it against a non-black background. Good point otherwise on the clearer schematic!…
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Congrats! Just submitted a number of Canadian museums.
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I made a prototype a week ago with a face recognition engine on the frontend, connecting into the Jitsi JavaScript API, running my own Jitsi server on DigitalOcean. The result: the video conferencing …
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Thanks, Alex. That site/map is by me. It's a cached / high availability version of the "Meal Location Search" site. As that site was crumbling under traffic (response times &g…
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Congrats! Small note, your custom icon font is not loading for me, making all icon images look like squares (it's the unicode character used by the font, actually). See: https://imgur.…
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I'm not affiliated, just someone who recently started using it daily, but another "always on" video conference alternative is https://tandem.chat/ . It integrates well …
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https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 ?
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On mobile Safari, the mic & camera permissions pop up, but after clicking Join Room the page goes blank. Any ideas? It works perfectly using Desktop Chrome.
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Would love to see your notes. Thank you!
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What do you recommend using instead?
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That's fascinating! We're 100% going into that direction, and the necessary algo work to do this reliably is not trivial. Thank for the great pointers!
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Hey dang, my sincere apologies about this! The app is ready to test and we're reaching out to people who are signing up with TestFlight links i.e., everyone will get to try out the app. But you&#…
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That's... exactly the use case we were thinking about! We've been using Voice Memos to record song bits / mouth beats, and hopefully this is the better / smarter version of that. C…