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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology

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Thank you! Shout outs as well to https://www.shortcutfoo.com/ and http://www.codecademy.com/ …
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Thanks for the feedback. The demo linked from the home page is much more a demo of the site's "abilities" than a full course. Once you finished the demo, did you try going through a "Learning module"?…
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Hi, We created this site after trying to learn the theory found in most Poker Math books. Rote memorization of equations didn't cut it -- so we created this interactive site instead, thinking it might…
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Why DOM specifically? Aren't both canvas and WebGL well suited for 2D/3D? re: three.js, etc.?
14y ago·view thread
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The author should release it in its original, CoffeeScript form..! ;-)
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You shouldn't try to fit your code in that bookmarklet...! Updatability issues aside (your original, server-loaded approach is absolutely valid), there definitely are limits to a bookmarklet's size, j…
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Perhaps the GP wants to make sure that the code keeps working, regardless of the server's availability, etc...? dazbradbury -- Host a local copy of http://fontbomb.ilex.ca/js/main.js and you should …
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Check the upper right corner of the screen.
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Not mine -- friends/nice talented people [ http://heliom.ca/en ] at the local coworking place. They left another very nice easter egg on a site they just launched: http://bivouacurbain.com/en/ See…
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Original research: http://console-cowboys.blogspot.com/2012/01/trendnet-cameras... About 600 cams' IPs: http://pastebin.com/SNqLR6yt To find the IPs, the researcher used http://www.shodanhq.com/ …
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The story (blog article) refers to this short essay: http://download.cell.com/images/edimages/CurrentBiology/home... which mentions "The long-lasting effects of TDCS, which can persist for up to 2 …
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They're popular in the CNC world, yes. For instance, the recently Kickstarter-funded MyDIYCNC project also natively interfaces through the parallel port; Stephen McGloughlin, who's behind the project,…
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This is great, congrats! I would love to have access to Python docs this way (builtins, the standard library, etc.). And Django's methods & template tags too...
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From the FAQ: "scores published in the last 85 years are mostly copyrighted and therefore unavailable in our corpus" [ http://www.peachnote.com/info.html ]. The corpus comes from http://imslp.org/ …
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Urban Mapping - http://www.urbanmapping.com/ - for data [ http://developer.urbanmapping.com/content/Data-Catalog ] and custom map rendering [ http://www.urbanmapping.com/product/mapfluence ].…
15y ago·view thread
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Kottke was a close friend to Jobs and an early Apple employee; when the time of the Apple IPO came around, Jobs denied him any stock options. Wozniak, on the other hand, gave shares to employees he fe…
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Other discussions on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163509 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3162352 …
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Don't know about the video, but the slides can be downloaded here in PDF: https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/raw/master/Sussma... …
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Good point regarding artificial demand. My surprise at the announcement has also partly/mostly to do with the actual pricing, which kicks in pretty fast (25k free map loads daily). It seems like a lot…
15y ago·view thread
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Weird. Is Google "really" interested in (aggressively) monetizing their mapping API (like MSFT, that has each department responsible for their own profitability)? Or, is this a longer term business st…
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It is great! Unfortunately, it can't be downloaded from SlideShare, although you can from here: http://toys.jacobian.org/presentations/2009/oscon/real-world... …
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There's "Django Best Practices", which was discussed two months ago (although it doesn't seem like it grew a lot since): http://lincolnloop.com/django-best-practices/ HN discussion: http://news.yco…
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