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franciskim

510 karma · joined November 6, 2015

I'm a full stack developer living in Melbourne Australia doing Node.js, Magento, React and Ionic. https://franciskim.co
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franciskim··on We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir
Strange that there's not one mention of Avigan / Favipiravir.
franciskim··on US considers cloth face masks for the public
https://tiny.cc/maskswork
franciskim··on How Pandemics Change History
The stated source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6909e1.htm does not seem to have anything about 5% nationwide requiring ICU care although I've not checked the links within that. But it does seem a bit off.
franciskim··on Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?
Lowest volatility ever in 27 or so years according to VIX apparently, which is actually a warning sign.
franciskim··on Petya Ransomware: Live Counter of Ransom Dollars Paid
I disagree that it is a dupe. The purpose of the post is different.
franciskim··on Petya Ransomware: Live Counter of Ransom Dollars Paid
My site would be DDoS'd first... for blockchain.info the resource required to process is negligible imo.
franciskim··on Petya Ransomware: Live Counter of Ransom Dollars Paid
Well, true. If you guys can report alternate addresses I can add it... but about to sleep now tho.
franciskim··on Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global
Thanks for the address, I made a live counter here: https://franciskim.co/petya-ransomware-live-counter-ransom-d...

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franciskim··on There is no pass by reference in Go
It is not
franciskim··on Unroll.me
I used unroll.me once but it didn't really work so I removed it.
franciskim··on Njalla – A privacy-aware domain registration service
ICANN shutting this down in 3...2...1...
franciskim··on Opinionated Comparison of React, Angular2, and Aurelia
Really nicely put.
franciskim··on Australian regulator alleges Apple misled iPad/iPhone users over consumer rights
Yes
franciskim··on Kim Jong-Nam Was Killed by VX Nerve Agent, Malaysians Say
Look at the number of Wikipedia links, it's not like tlow is the only person on earth that knows about this.
franciskim··on Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth”
The point is, if a health check fails or if there is an outage on AZ 2 then the ELB should be scripted to route to AZ 1 only, as well as AZ 3 if it exists.
franciskim··on Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth”
It might sound condescending but I am merely stating facts and my opinon which froms the basis of my version of 'truth' as is the OP. I did not call anyone a liar at least.
franciskim··on Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth”
Well, your system is not fault-tolerant if you have cross dependencies between AZs. I find their reporting accurate - AZ outage, not Regional as per your post.
franciskim··on Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth”
Yeah, I was about to mention multi-AZ load balancing too. Can't believe a real time messaging platform doesn't have that.
franciskim··on How did you use slack in no team?
I've seen some integrations where it uses Slack like a memo app, or for keeping records. I guess it's kind of feasible to use it that way, you just won't have anyone you can actually chat with... unless u want to install some AI chatbots... (most are shitty).
franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
On the ethics side, I don't scrape large amounts of data - eg. giving clients lead gen (x leads for y dollars) - in fact, I have never done a scraping job and don't intend to do those jobs for profit.

For me it's purely for personal use and my little side projects. I don't even like the word scraping because it comes loaded with so many negative connotations (which sparked this whole comment thread) - and for a good reason - it's reflective of how the the demand in the market. People want cheap leads to spam, and that's bad use of technology.

Generally I tend to focus more on words and phases like 'automation' and 'scripting a bot'. I'm just automating my life, I'm writing a bot to replace what I would have to do on a daily basis - like looking on Facebook for some gifs and videos then manually posting them to my site. Would I spend an hour each and every day doing this? No, I'm much more lazier than that.

Who is anyone to tell me what I can and can't automate in my life?

franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
Bingo
franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
Hmm yeah there are a lot of other things that I could write about. 80legs seem like another Scrapy type of SaaS? Not sure what you mean about gathering tokens from customers.
franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
Ok guys, I've elaborated a bit - tried to make the aim of the post a bit clearer, and I've removed the stuff about Facebook because I don't want to discomfort other readers. It's 5:25AM, it's been a crazy morning and I've got work tomorrow! XD
franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
Ok, I'll try to explain to this thread. I actually thought about removing the Facebook part, but I kept it in there because that is kind of how I felt and it is real. The middle-schooler tone and vocab is probably because I don't read a lot of books, and English is my 2nd language.

In reply to XCSme - no I am not new to Node and my point of the post is to illustrate some of the techniques that I haven't seen published anywhere to HN and the community. My focus is quite different from what you think it is, so maybe it is my bad for bad writing skills, I'm still new to writing and learning.

franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
Selenium grid runs in docker, so it's easy to have multiple instances running. Better control.
franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
take my money!
franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
I got the 100th star on the repo! What do you mean by the verifying part?
franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
Nice post Jake!
franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
I think I might have some trouble with some reCAPTCHA stuff, but there must be ways around it. I agree with you on your point about AWS.
franciskim··on Web Scraping in 2016
I'm on Reddit?
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