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tbking··on Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?
git, nodejs

I owe my career to them.

tbking··on Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer
I moved from India to Sweden last year and I was surprised with the relatively easy process.

I would suggest to apply at companies which hire international developers. It's easy to filter them on AngelList and Hacker News' whoishiring thread.

tbking··on Show HN: KnowYourKisaan – Market Simulation in Context of Indian Farmers Protest
Farmers protests[1] in India against the new farm laws[2] in India have seen misinformation of a great scale. The talks are stuck in deadlock and claims of farmers being misguided are made frequently.

One claim that has really caught my eye is that APMCs (the public and MSP is not going anywhere since the law enacts a parallel structure without touching the existing one. However the world runs on economic incentives which will be against APMCs. Farmers understand that but I believe the general public at large has been oblivious to this.

So I created knowyourkisaan.com as a weekend project. It is a simulation of the predatory pricing strategy used by private players with deep pockets can ruin the competition in the agricultural market . The concept is oversimplified for the purpose of this simulation (so that people can get back to important stuff like arguing on twitter ). I’m neither an economist nor a designer so things can be off and I would love to hear feedback.

The source code is open sourced at tarunbatra/know-your-kisaan on GitHub[3] and contributions in the form of issues and PRs are welcome!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farme...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Indian_agriculture_acts

[3]: https://github.com/tarunbatra/know-your-kisaan

tbking··on Show HN: Zindagi – A Game of Life
Zindagi in Hindi/Urdu means Life.

This library was on my mind since a while when I started obsessing over Game of life patterns and got introduced to the broader world of cellular automata. It doesn't compete with Golly or any well built library, rather it is oriented towards beginners like me who want to see those gliders asap. :)

tbking··on Git Before GitHub
I wrote this before the youtube-dl controversy and now I am seeing this blog in a different light. Developers should know the basics of collaboration through git.
tbking··on Show HN: Easy Password Validations for Python
The purpose of this library is for the developers be able to easily and confidently define password rules for their application. I know rules which try to limit a password's length or impose other non-scientific restrictions are not good for security, but the library doesn't judge.
tbking··on Polling reliably at scale using DLQs
Unlike ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ doesn't automatically send undelivered messages to a default DLQ. So that doesn't apply in this use case.

The ActiveMQ header to schedule messages looks promising. Thanks for sharing, will check it out. :)

tbking··on Error messages in login process: Privacy and Security
I found effects of login failure messages on security and privacy of an app interesting and did some analysis on it.
tbking··on Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
NOTE: This update is going to be incompatible with all the legacy add-ons. Happened with me. Though, the update's nice.
tbking··on Ask HN: Where do you go to trade your cryptocurrencies?
Poloniex. Because it's easy
tbking··on Ask HN: What problems does blockchain solve?
There's room for blockchain in every place where: 1. there's a central authority involved 2. the central authority is prone to error, bias and hostility

️=> Most used application is money-based transactions. Banks are central authority and are affiliated with governments, which makes them charge of your money. Use blockchain (Bitcoin).

=> Supply chains are inefficient due to checks and sign offs by so many people. Use blockchain (Hyperledger)

️=> People don't agree on terms, and they end up in a feud or a lawsuit which is costly. Use blockchain (Ethereum)

Blockchain, and decentralization on whole is seen to be as future. Many want to tap it before others. Of course, large number of startups will fail, but it doesn't say anything about the potential this technology holds.

tbking··on Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War Right as It Enters a Critical Month
If Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies weren't enough to take Bitcoin down. This is gonna do it.
tbking··on Weekend project: Multiplayer game to type fast(er)
I developed it as a weekend project, and to help me hone my skills in Sockets and front-end. Would love to see some suggestions and new approaches. :)
tbking··on Unix Time 1500M – Friday July 14 02:40UTC
I've seen the Unix timestamp as One Four something since I started active coding since 2015. So I'm excited about this.
tbking··on In Blow to Tech Industry, Trump Shelves Startup Immigrant Rule
I see it more as a blow to tech industry in U.S. Especially when most other countries like Canada are opening up to skilled workers
tbking··on Solution to Wi-Fi problems on HP laptops with Realtek RTL8723BE NICs (2016)
I don't think it's just a wrapper. It's a script which does 'n' tasks in 1 command. One of the command is applying those drivers, but the critical part is the configuration to select the second antenna.
tbking··on Solution to Wi-Fi problems on HP laptops with Realtek RTL8723BE NICs (2016)
This solution works on Linux. Official HP drivers are usually the best way on Windows.
tbking··on Solution to Wi-Fi problems on HP laptops with Realtek RTL8723BE NICs (2016)
I haven't noticed that pattern. for example my ₹30,000 Lenovo works fine but ₹50,000 HP doesn't.
tbking··on Solution to Wi-Fi problems on HP laptops with Realtek RTL8723BE NICs (2016)
It's just incompatibility between hardware and software. HP's official drivers for Windows work perfectly, but no such privilege to Linux users.
tbking··on A social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically
Thank you Nostradamus. it already happened.
tbking··on The Privacy Revolution that never came
Exactly!
tbking··on The Privacy Revolution that never came
Irony: Blogging about data ownership and hosting the blog on medium.
tbking··on Ask HN: How do you debug your code?
console.log and dev tools all the way!