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by bkanber 11y ago
Tangentially, Ernest Cline's "Ready Player One" explores a future where a universe-sized virtual world is pervasive in society because everything in the real world has fallen to hell. Not the best literature out there, but en
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by bkanber 11y ago
Does anybody know of a similar vim plugin? I personally love ASCII diagrams, but there's quite a bit of friction involved in including them in docblocks.
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by bkanber 11y ago
This is fascinating. Business model: annoy people so much that they pay you to stop annoying them. Everybody's been talking about the death of display ads, and it looks like Google's paying attention and trying to figure out how t
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Crafting Intuition with Language(burakkanber.com)
1 points by bkanber 11y ago|0 comments
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by bkanber 11y ago
I've got three! A highly opinionated project management saas: http://kati.burakkanber.com/ A long term HTML5 RPG project: http://thebotanistgame.com/ And I'm working on a really interesting giga
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by bkanber 11y ago
PHP is a decent language and ecosystem these days. Perhaps one of the minority of ecosystems that are actually on the rise rather than on the decline. It still has lots of warts, but whatever. Forget the idea that PHP is "taking what y
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by bkanber 11y ago
This one isn't expired though (June 2015). Either they cheaped out, or misconfigured, or there's some kind of MITM attack going on.
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by bkanber 11y ago
Seems wild to me that such an important service, run by an infrastructure company, would have an invalid SSL cert on their control panel (as reported by Chrome). Does anyone know what might have happened here? I have no idea if it's sa
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Rackspace Control Panel SSL Certificate Is Invalid(mycloud.rackspace.com)
1 points by bkanber 11y ago|4 comments
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by bkanber 11y ago
Honestly PHP was a breeze! There's only a couple of things that stood out to me as suboptimal: - PHP ncurses is not well documented beyond just function signatures. Of course, curses itself is well documented, and ncurses functions map
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by bkanber 11y ago
I disagree. When I build a project for fun, or for education, as in this case, the last thing I want to be thinking about is you!
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by bkanber 11y ago
You're the only person in here who criticized my use of PHP that I actually agree with. I never intended to release this app, and wanted to build it in PHP for fun, so I stuck with it. But you're absolutely right on the portabilit
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by bkanber 11y ago
Thanks, appreciate it! I considered Go for this too, but wanted to use PHP because you don't see too many curses PHP apps around, and I wanted to observe one for myself ;)
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by bkanber 11y ago
Right. Hard to argue with that. But if you're going to say that to me, then you'll also need to tell that to everyone releasing software that gets installed via `npm install -g` or `gem install`, too!
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by bkanber 11y ago
> command line interfaces should be written in bash, perl, python, go Says whom?
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by bkanber 11y ago
That's true! But there are two reasons I didn't go that route: 1) I wanted to build this ;) 2) Slack's IRC integration does not mark messages as read until you exit the IRC client. (Granted, mine doesn't mark them as rea
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by bkanber 11y ago
I actually intended to write a comment in the README about my choice of language, but as things go, I forgot. This was, first and foremost, an educational pet project for me. I /like/ building things in the wrong language. Hell, I
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Show HN: I made a command-line Slack chat client(github.com)
90 points by bkanber 11y ago|37 comments
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by bkanber 11y ago
Check out Chester Simpson's work from Natl Semiconductor. I don't have a DOI available for you unfortunately, but Simpson is a great starting point.
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by bkanber 11y ago
No. Leaving a battery at 100% is bad for the battery's life. Just as bad as deep cycling all the time. Even if your laptop is stationary, knock the charger out once a day and let it run on battery power for a bit.
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by bkanber 11y ago
Li-ion batteries do not have a memory effect. LiFePO4 do, however.
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by bkanber 11y ago
This is often the case. Not all the time, but lots of devices have started doing this.
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by bkanber 11y ago
Agreed. I do avoid leaving my laptop plugged in overnight, but I'm also not too careful about leaving it plugged in during the day. I'll often pop the charger out when I notice the battery at 100%, but I'm not going to lose s
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by bkanber 11y ago
Temperature, temperature gradients, heat, membrane potential, charge/discharge speed, etc, are all variables in long term battery life, along with dozens of others. So I'm reluctant to agree or confirm with any sweeping statement
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by bkanber 11y ago
Long term battery degradation happens when its membranes degrade. There are hundreds of variables involved. Temperature IS a variable. But I'm reluctant to outright confirm what you're saying because it may be misleading. Avoiding
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by bkanber 11y ago
Correct. I, of course, am talking about battery cells, and not battery systems. It is up to the reader to understand the specifics of their use-case and apply this information appropriately.
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by bkanber 11y ago
Source: I have a master's degree in mechanical engineering in hybrid vehicle powertrains, and a big part of my research was battery technology. I spent some time working with the folks at National Semiconductor learning this, so I have
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Use Vim like an IDE(vim.wikia.com)
5 points by bkanber 12y ago|0 comments
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Full-Text Search in Javascript – Part 1: Relevance Scoring(burakkanber.com)
20 points by bkanber 12y ago|1 comments
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by bkanber 12y ago
Really interesting idea. I think this has the potential to grow into a real publishing platform, but also think that their name might hurt them. "GitBook" is very techie, and the name and the git-geared UX might be a hurdle toward

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