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rronalddason Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?

Hi on a side note, I am curious about how did you get to know that your company was mentioned in this thread? Did the OP reach out to you first? Or did you find this comment while reading HN?

rronalddason The State of Web Scraping 2022

They read robots.txt right? You can easily add a Disallow rule for google-bot there

rronalddason What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack

Yeah, it can be done easily using lockfiles, both yarn and npm allow that. You would seldom run npm update directly in production without testing the updated deps first

rronalddason Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?

I was surprised to find out that most Indian news sites still have an active RSS feed

rronalddason Show HN: Netvyne – a Chrome extension to leave and read comments on any URL

What happens to the comments on dead links? Do you guys delete them?

rronalddason Ask HN: How do you avoid dopamine addiction on social media?

Follow 0 pages/people, sounds impossibile. But atleast try to stop followers aggregator accounts

rronalddason AWS Support able to access any S3 object due to permission change

KMS Encrypted objects shouldn't be affected though

rronalddason Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town

The Vedas are supposedly that old

rronalddason From Node to Ruby on Rails

I used to use Dokku a lot for hosting Flask APIs, am now using Caprover , the added GUI is great

rronalddason Don't give up on having kids because of climate change

Very well said

rronalddason Show HN: Build and sell truly interactive in-browser coding courses

Seems very similar to https://www.slip.so/

rronalddason Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science games and live game streaming for kids

I hope Byjus doesn't buy out this competitor

rronalddason Figma: Changes to free plan after April 21, 2021

Was considering Figma for a new project. But now that it doesn't have any version history, don't think will try it

rronalddason My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

Got rejected from a FAANG job, because the interviewer didn't like Inorder recursive approach of tree traversal , he asked me to redo the question in O(1) Space. The interviewer specifically mentioned that , recursion or a stack can't be used.

rronalddason Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research

Is it something like Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) but with more than just markdown files?

rronalddason Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

Okay this is bad. I had just convinced management to get us on Bronze Plan, now it's gone. Intially the whole team ~10 Dev's were in Bitbucket, was considering between GitHub and GitLab since Gitlab allowed importing pull request issues, whereas GitHub support just asked me to write my own plugin for the same.

rronalddason Ask HN: How do you handle recurring payments in 2021?

In india, we mostly use Razorpay

rronalddason Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?

Can you do a reddit AMA?? I think many people would be interested

rronalddason Show HN: Supermind – The easiest way to improve memory in all you do

Is the spaced repetition algo same as Anki's?

rronalddason Don't Touch Ya Face

Great man!! Love the FAQ

rronalddason Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

So no summer Olympics I guess

rronalddason Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?

> You do not need to be a data scientist. Anybody can do it. That said, a good GPU will help a lot. I'm using two 1080Ti in SLI and they're pretty decent.

You can also use Google colab for a free GPU/TPU

rronalddason What every computer science major should know (2011)

Currently, I think dockerfile are more omnipresent than makefiles

rronalddason India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped

Also I would like to add, the govt has now a made a private corp called New Space India Limited, which will help in commercialization of tech developed by ISRO