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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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
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The audio port is definitely the right way to interface cheaply (and across different mobile phones). If anyone's interested, there _is_ now a way to interface RS-232 devices from an iPhone using an A…
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Thanks for the great link! Browsing through Tufte's main site, I also saw that he has upcoming classes: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses New England next week, then in the Washington D.C. re…
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Gandi is great and resilient. I know from personal communication with them that the Yes Men recommend using their domain services (they also favor joker.com, which is based in Germany -- I've had a go…
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Crap, sorry about that. You can click the Download button on the right side of this page: http://www.scribd.com/doc/56508265/?secret_password=20u3g2pa... I didn't understand why, after filling out t…
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The PDF of the Startup Genome report can be downloaded here: http://www.scribd.com/document_downloads/direct/56508265?ext... Fascinating work!…
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Great work, congratulations! - Can you make the save-preview-reload cycle (much) faster? I found out that command-S triggered a Save, that's great. Does "Preview" have a keyboard shortcut as well? Cou…
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How about X-Plane creator Austin Meyer?
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Just signed up -- great idea! Small problem: I clicked the "Get Startup Help" button, selected an area of expertise, and was then paired with someone. The random selection (instead of being able to br…
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I didn't mean that to be a snark! :-) It was simply a(n emotional?) reaction (has been said many times, etc.) to the reality of bandwidth being reduced in Canada over the past... 15 years. I used to h…
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Thanks a lot -- do you know if you're using a 900Mhz, 2.4 or 5Ghz subscriber unit? Also, what's the distance from the ISP to you?
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How expensive would it be to start a number of small independent Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs)? I'm thinking of a decentralized "movement" of geeks organizing what's required to get neig…
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Unfortunately, no. However these two articles (taken from Techmeme) are very interesting as they are basing their observations on the number of affected BGP routes: http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/0…
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Looks like it's available here: http://www.evolutivconsultants.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/03... …