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Comment by radicalbyte | Hacker News Reader

Just read his series of post over his ordeal. He really has had a rough time.

Guys (and gals) of HN, let see if our little community can get to together to help Richard enjoy his last days (and maybe provide a bit for his family if we do really well).

Most of us can miss $20, and Richard and his family need it more than must of us do..

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Done - and anyone else reading this should do.

It takes seconds and you won't even miss the 3 lattes it could buy you.

Side note - is that really what people are paying for lattes now?

No, $3-$5 last time I got one.

I tend to go soy + an extra shot, dings me for $6-ish

If Lego Movie is any indication of the price of coffee it's around $37.

I was pretty surprised at how easy PayPal has made it. I know that people prefer other services and the reasons they do, but at least PP has been moving forward in their ease of integration. Noticed it on Bandcamp recently as well. Just type amount, enter email and password then confirm and done (assuming you've got PP setup already).

I work with PayPal and to be honest my dislike doesn't come from the user experience but the developer side, the api, the tools, the interface, they are all broken, it is amazingly demotivating.

I worked with it years ago and had a similar experience. I guess I was try to say the recently I had a few pleasant, easy transactions. Upon further inspection, that might not be something to be too excited about.

Good way to word it.

I was feeling for him & those that knew him, but purely observing, as I was well outside his circle of influence. Then I read your comment and snapped back to humanity, remembered that this was a person and I was a person and I'm doing OK enough to extend some cash, regardless of the separation of our worlds. Thanks for posting your comment.

I don't know Rich but anyone who makes as much of a commitment to the web as he has deserves a lot of respect. I donated and am looking forward to see how the HN community helps out in a few weeks.

Done - anyone else wondering, it's very easy, so please just do it if you can afford it and hopefully it will help him in big or small way.

Donated, hopefully it makes a difference to him and his family.

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