gregman's comments

gregman | 3 years ago | on: FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers

Well no, but I'm curious what the FTC's studies of that were. There are plenty of reviews of OpenDoor (check Reddit) where reviewers stated they just needed to clean out their house. I'm guessing OpenDoor has a certain standard for agreeing to buy a home, and some homes they ask to do repairs would otherwise have been turned away.

gregman | 3 years ago | on: FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers

Agreed. iBuying is a business and your paying for the convenience of them taking your home as-is. Even though their offering price is lower than what you'd receive from selling with a realtor, you still end up spending 10-15% of your home value when selling the traditional way.

source: https://www.redfin.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-sell-a-...

gregman | 4 years ago | on: Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt

Agreed. One thing this article doesn't point out that was a bigger topic a couple of weeks prior is that Zillow had to halt purchases due to lack of workers to help flip the homes [1]. The iBuying revenue model depends on the ability to flip a home quickly so that market fluctuations do not have enough time to pose as a risk, which Zillow was willing to take.

1 - https://archive.md/tNaDt

gregman | 4 years ago | on: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

I think you are describing DDG.

gregman | 9 years ago | on: Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off

To prevent data from being used by the Uber app on Android I enabled data server mode, and from there denied the Uber app from having unrestricted data access (settings > apps > special access > unrestricted data access). This allows me to still use the Uber app and request a ride, and I'll receive texts once the car is near.

Last week during Thanksgiving travel I received a advertisement from the Uber app (as a notification) when I arrived at the SFO airport, even though I did not use the app at all that day. That's when I decided it was time to take away the unrestricted data access. I do agree that it would be nice to have better privacy options for each app, but I thought I'd share this workaround for the time being.

gregman | 11 years ago | on: Federal law enforcement documents about Aaron Swartz, released under FOIA

Take a look at the FOIA Machine: https://www.foiamachine.org/

gregman | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)

Nitrous.IO — https://www.nitrous.io

SF / Singapore (remote can be considered)

At Nitrous.IO we are changing the way the world codes. Our mission with Nitrous.IO is to improve the way you work and collaborate on software applications by making development environments easier to create, configure and share.

We just closed a $6.65M Series A financing round and are growing at a fast rate. If you’re interested in helping us change the way the world codes, check out our jobs page:

https://www.nitrous.io/jobs

Positions include:

* Platform Engineer

* Software Engineer

* Support Engineer

* Developer Evangelist

* Product Designer

* Product Marketing / Growth Hacker

* Corporate Assistant

* Office Manager

Here are some (but not all) of the languages/technologies you could be working with:

* Ruby / Rails

* Node.js

* Ember.js

* JavaScript

* Chef

* Puppet

* PostgreSQL

* Memcache

gregman | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

Nitrous.IO — https://www.nitrous.io

SF / Singapore (remote can be considered)

At Nitrous.IO we are changing the way the world codes. Our mission with Nitrous.IO is to improve the way you work and collaborate on software applications by making development environments easier to create, configure and share.

We just closed a $6.65M Series A financing round and are growing at a fast rate. If you’re interested in helping us change the way the world codes, check out our jobs page:

https://www.nitrous.io/jobs

Positions include:

* Platform Engineer

* Software Engineer

* Support Engineer

* Developer Evangelist

* Product Designer

* Product Marketing / Growth Hacker

* Corporate Assistant

Here are some (but not all) of the languages/technologies you could be working with:

* Ruby / Rails

* Node.js

* Ember.js

* JavaScript

* Chef

* Puppet

* PostgreSQL

* Memcache

* Redis

gregman | 12 years ago | on: Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carrying Over 200

Looking at the update at 2.32pm AEST makes me sad. Two people mourning over the loss of their relatives and everyone in the airport takes pictures of them. Here is the image (although I'm just spreading it around more): http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...

gregman | 12 years ago | on: Huun-Huur-Tu

This could be the opening ceremony for Waza 2014!

gregman | 12 years ago

README is on imgur: http://imgur.com/a/4pmRM

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/GMWnmiG.png

gregman | 12 years ago | on: Groupon sales rep threatens restaurant with negative Yelp reviews

Nope. Title is exactly the same as it was posted originally (except for "yelp" being capitalized to "Yelp").

gregman | 12 years ago | on: How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space?

"The subject later reported that he could feel and hear the air leaking out, and his last conscious memory was of the water on his tongue beginning to boil"

Can someone explain the boiling water on his tongue?

gregman | 13 years ago | on: AT&T Announces Intent to Build 1 Gigabit Fiber Network in Austin

This is exactly the reason Google implemented fiber in the first place. Their intent is not to necessarily dominate the broadband networks, but simply to bring back competition to these oligopolies.

Now if only San Francisco could get some decent internet! I've been hoping for monkeybrains to expand further from the Mission so I can drop Comcast.

gregman | 13 years ago | on: Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV

True, but bee venom wouldn't be harmful to anyone now would it? :P