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by bkanber 14y ago
Devil's avocado here: let's say you pay $100/mo for a gym membership and they shut down three days in a row because somebody called in a threat. How upset would you be at the gym? A malicious attack by a third party is different from, say,
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by bkanber 14y ago
Did it really impact your work, other than slightly inconveniencing you? "UGH GitHub down again, I guess I have to go work on something equally as important for upwards of an hour" I call shenanigans on you, good sir.
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Learning the k-means Clustering Algorithm in Javascript(burakkanber.com)
13 points by bkanber 14y ago|1 comments
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by bkanber 14y ago
Hold the phone. This policy change is only so apps can't auto-publish to your friends' timelines. It doesn't say anything about auto-publishing to your timeline, which I imagine is still allowed. An incremental improvement at best.. but s
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by bkanber 14y ago
I made one of these a little over a year ago, for fun: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sitechat/affmlbhoe... We don't store logins, messages, or logs on any DB so it's ostensibly anonymous. You can use a nickname but you can't r
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by bkanber 14y ago
No cell phones allowed at the tables. If you want to use your phone you have to stand up and walk away.
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by bkanber 14y ago
While I like the idea, I think it's overly ambitious, a bit misleading, and I don't think these are the people to pull this off. If you read their bios, it's clear that they have no history of repeated success, or the appropriate background
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by bkanber 14y ago
Thanks! I was losing sleep trying to figure out when to break the news about Euler's method. I figured this article would be best because the actual physics code is pretty straightforward, so that left some room to talk about integration te
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by bkanber 14y ago
Agreed. But I just call that "being too stubborn to learn from your experiences"
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by bkanber 14y ago
Not enough people take that message to heart. Quitting is the #1 mode of failure not just in startups but in damn near everything.
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Modeling a pendulum clock in Javascript(burakkanber.com)
26 points by bkanber 14y ago|2 comments
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by bkanber 14y ago
The subtitle of this article irks me: > the change to ice occurs at 275 H20s. That's a zero, not the letter O, in "H20s".
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by bkanber 14y ago
What you haven't yet told us is: what's the lifetime value of a customer of your service? Your stats above show an acquisition cost of $4.75 per user. That feels a little high, but you also have to consider the "landing page vs real product
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by bkanber 14y ago
That distortion you're hearing is because of sharp changes in your signal's amplitude. To get rid of it, you should apply a little bit of smoothing to the attack and release of individual notes.
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by bkanber 14y ago
> Steve Jobs said that if you need to read a user manual (particularly to do the most vanilla usage of a product), the problem is the product. Not you. He's talking about consumer products, not databases that were intended for use by te
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by bkanber 14y ago
The radiation from your microwave isn't harmful, but I will admit it's kinda hard to see what's going on through that mesh. I really like your drone delivery idea.
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by bkanber 14y ago
I wrote an article very similar to this a few months ago. I make a similar argument: we need defined workspaces, and when we're there we shouldn't do anything but work. http://burakkanber.com/blog/staying-productive-while-working...
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by bkanber 14y ago
I had several clients on DreamHost and all of them have had some kind of problem, whether it's unacceptable downtime or MySQL DBs crashing and not being restored for 3+ days. I've spent a lot of time and effort moving clients off of Dream
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by bkanber 14y ago
Correct and correct. The knapsack problem does have an excellent dynamic programming solution. And of course, where there's a simpler algorithm, you should use it. This article isn't about the knapsack problem; it's about learning GAs. The
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by bkanber 14y ago
I talk about that technique in the article. It's called the "greedy algorithm" or "greedy solution". In this example, the GA handily defeats that approach. Edit: the greedy algorithm gives you a solution with a total value of $4,901. So far
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by bkanber 14y ago
In the first article I briefly mention my motivation for covering GAs first when teaching ML: it does a great job of introducing ML core concepts, and it's interesting. It's hard to teach ML to many people if you start with the comparativ
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Intro to Genetic Algorithms in Javascript Part 2(burakkanber.com)
85 points by bkanber 14y ago|11 comments
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by bkanber 14y ago
I don't want to put my email address into something without first knowing what it is.
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by bkanber 14y ago
Thanks! This article and the other Physics in JS article mention that we're using Euler only because it's the easiest for a student to understand. The article also mentions that the next post will be dedicated to exploring the different int
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by bkanber 14y ago
You're right! However, both in this article and a previous article I point out that Euler is the least accurate of the numerical integration methods. I also mention several times that there will be an upcoming article dedicated to exploring
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by bkanber 14y ago
E&M has always been a tricky subject for physics students which is exactly why I want to tackle it! I'll have to figure out a clear and concise way to communicate the concepts to beginners, and while that'll definitely be challenging,
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by bkanber 14y ago
There are direct parallels between mechanical systems, electrical circuits, and plumbing systems. Three totally different systems can be modeled by the same exact equations!
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by bkanber 14y ago
I'm aiming for the series to have around 30 articles in it. It will include n-body problems, but the series won't just be on mechanics. We'll do heat transfer, electromagnetism, and other fun topics. Maybe even quantum mechanics and special
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Modeling a car suspension in Javascript, part 1(burakkanber.com)
40 points by bkanber 14y ago|18 comments
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by bkanber 14y ago
Small team manager here -- not often at all. Most people are working on different components simultaneously so conflicts rarely arise.

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