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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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
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Totally a great point, and other apps in this space -- typically those that target a larger, non-"pro musician" audience -- do have more entertaining / fun engagement mechanisms, such a…
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Thank you! Looking forward to your feedback!
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Hey HN! We're Tristan & Greg from Chops https://www.getchops.app/ . Chops is an iOS music making app that lets you make beats with your voice. We're currently running a …
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I just found https://github.com/x56/airpyrt-tools and https://jcs.org/2018/06/12/airport_ssh -- fascinating!…
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Thank you, the great iOS app and end-to-end encryption really sealed the deal. Also being able to try it out with the 50Gb included in the free account...! I'll be moving backups there. Maybe I c…
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Does anyone have suggestions for a self hosted photo service with - importantly - a solid iOS companion app to do photo sync and possibly browse photos? I would prefer using a simple S3 backend. It se…
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Direct links: C++20 Features
https://mcusercontent.com/e93417593cbf4da3dba03d672/files/42... Language Features of C++17
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e934175…
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Not sure about printed per se, but would definitely appreciate a modern concise Swift reference!
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Perhaps it would have been overall simpler to link directly to the page's markdown content..? :-) https://anderspitman.net/entries/16/entry.md …
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Video of the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNRO7lno_DM
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I’d love to hear more about this, if you don’t mind? :)
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Thank you for the recommendation! From [0] (first question on the page), I gather that you’re referring to Marilyn’s case? Thanks again [0] https://feelinggood.com/2019/03/11…
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I really enjoyed Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Levine and Heller [0]. The description of the “types” (avoidant, secure, anxious) was ver…
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No. We started doing more general web “consulting” (i.e. work for hire) which then morphed into doing web mapping sites/applications (“mashups”!) which became a startup specialized in this field.…
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Always makes me tingle to think back about this. A friend and I had submitted for the very first batch — we had a working prototype built using Mozilla XUL of a “FileMaker for the web” (YC later funde…
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How? Where?? I’d love to get 1gbps and fight bell with you!! :) Contact info in my profile. Thanks! Edit — is it TelKel? I see that they offer 60$ 1gbps connections, but they seem to target residentia…
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Transcribe does “Recognize Multiple Speakers” — it’s on the page that you linked to, in the list of features. I would also recommend comparing it to Google’s and maybe MS/Azure’s services. Aside …
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https://www.mapbox.com/resources/guide-to-map-design-part-1a...
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After a bit of searching, I found it hosted on the Internet Archive [0]. Thanks for the reference! [0] https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.131735/ …
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I don't think that this is exactly what you're asking for, but you can explore most "standard" projections below (definitely try out the first link described below): - Take a look …
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Came here to say the same! Here's the link to the related HN discussion, in case it can useful as well [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16160394 …
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Same. I transferred a few of the phone numbers I "collected" while traveling to Twilio, and have them all forward calls & SMS to my current "real" number. I'd love to have…
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This nand2tetris-inspired game is really great too -- it was very hard to resist and not finish it! [0]. It was posted as a Show HN [1] about a year ago. [0] http://nandgame.com/
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Great one! A wonderful intro/tutorial to synths that was recently posted -- https://learningsynths.ableton.com/ …
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Shaders -- https://thebookofshaders.com/
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The game did not work for me under Chrome (it does work on desktop Safari). Is it available in English, or in German only? Thanks!
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On a related note, I was recently disgusted by Bunk1 [0], a SaaS for summer camps that allows parents to stay connected with their children, as it highlights "Facial Recognition" as one of i…