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gregsadetsky
9,926karma·1,663submissions·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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
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To scrape, start here http://metmuseum.org/api/collection/collectionlisting?offset... and increase 'offset' by 100. The JSON output contains image URLs. The total …
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Great question! I found this after a bit of searching: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall09/cos126/le...
(see next to last page)…
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Congrats! Small note, none of the listings appear when using uBlock Origin [ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... ], a popular ad blocker. It…
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Good idea! The paper describing the breathing detection using radio is here: https://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/papers/vitalradio-paper.p... The paper on the heartbeat and b…
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Indeed! https://www.masterclass.com/classes/werner-herzog-teaches-fi... There's also his "Rogue Film School", but no news so far as to 2017 dates: http:/…
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I just found & installed the "Copy Real Url" [1] Chrome Extension which adds a context menu item to copy the 'clean' url on Google and other sites. It works well and the code i…
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Thanks for the recommendation! You can access Ramit Sethi's content directly here (no need to subscribe to the mailing list): http://insider.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blueprints&#…
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Google "progressive kristallnacht perkins". The WSJ article can't be linked (access will be restricted), but clicking from Google's search results will allow you to read it.
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There used to be a comment thread here regarding the Pi Zero and how it's impossible to buy one through any of the distributors. Somebody (else?) provided a link regarding Broadcom, and how they …
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You should also fix the copy. You have "To prevent your browser from accessing your Device Orientation use NoScript." appear twice, the second time under "Network Scan". Congrats o…
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It does support both "Brasil" and "Portugal". Have you tried it out? Does it work well in Portuguese?
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This had been announced back in September 2015, albeit from a Google Docs for Education point of view: https://googleblog.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/google-docs-classr... Under …
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Yes, there is a theoretical limit -- the "Rayleigh criterion". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagery_intelligence#Satellite "This means that it would be impossible …
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"milli lightsecond" doesn't work on OSX unfortunately (under 10.6 at least). One value which does work is "3 c-millisecond". (I learned this by reading the /usr/shar…
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What area? What ISP? Let's start naming and shaming.. ;) I had a pathetic experience with an ISP "reselling" Bell's DSL service. The ISP's name is Distributel. YouTube would n…
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Amsterdam seems to be a good example of what you're describing (FTTH installed by the city, Internet service provided by private companies). See: http://arstechnica.com/tech-polic…
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Here's the Wired article from 2007: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp_pr.html …
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Here's a semi high-res of one of the schematics panels: http://www.digibarn.com/history/06-11-4-VCF9-Apple30/images/... [edit] Found a more complete, higher resolu…
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Congrats on making your product more and more beautiful and useful! By the way, you could have the top logo on your blog point to your site (it seems to be a popular request these days) :-)
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Hi Andrew, congrats on the campaign and reaching your goal so quickly! And thank you for South! I've been using South for some years and it would be impossible to imagine working on a Django project w…
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The first 4k$ was raised in an hour -- impressive. FAKEGRIMLOCK has been on a roll; his articles are (surprisingly?) inspiring and very much to the point...
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Congrats on the launch!
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Yes. The Stripe Button documentation even redirects now to https://stripe.com/docs/button Fortunately, the "old" Button <script> still works for now. i.e. <script src=" https://button.st…
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Although it is possible to collect the customer's billing address (using the 'address' option) using the Checkout form, it isn't (yet?) possible to add other, arbitrary fields. For instance, collectin…
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If you're interested in electronics tinkering, there's always this very nice starter pack from adafruit: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1014 …
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Hi jrode, Sorry that the site left a bad impression on you. We were trying to get across that "it's free" applied to the fact that "trying it" (the main action) was free. We'll make this clearer. By t…
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We'll have more beginner courses as well in the future, although the Counting Outs course (the first one) shouldn't be too hard. Let us know what you think! Thanks
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Thank you! It seems to be working -- our conversion rate from homepage to registration is about 10% (although it's very early, and I'm basing this off a few hundred uniques). Still hoping to hit the H…