bkanber

13 ms·

91.
by bkanber 6y ago
This right here is what the internet should be about. Stop debating whether this makes sense to do. It doesn't, and it doesn't have to. It's an absurd academic pursuit, and that makes the world a slightly better and more inte
92.
What CTOs Worry About(bkanber.substack.com)
3 points by bkanber 6y ago|0 comments
93.
by bkanber 6y ago
My concern is not what can be done today , but rather in 15 years.
94.
The Confidence Cycle(burakkanber.com)
4 points by bkanber 6y ago|0 comments
95.
by bkanber 6y ago
It's really tough. I bet that a good % of failed early stage startups fail because the founders simply can't keep up with the rejection and negativity. The simple truth is you just have to keep trying, for years and years possibly
96.
by bkanber 6y ago
> Weeks I'm sorry, but even with things getting rushed through by regulatory agencies, you cannot expect prelim results to convert to treatments in only a matter of weeks.
97.
by bkanber 6y ago
That's not how bitcoin was marketed in the early days. And I don't trust it even remotely as a long term store of value.
98.
by bkanber 6y ago
It'll just be yet another technical advancement that we have to adapt to. And we will. What gives me comfort is that there's still an operator with a motive. It's funny, as I was reading your comment I half expected it to end
99.
by bkanber 6y ago
Are you perhaps referring to mini USB? USB-C is already reversible.
100.
by bkanber 6y ago
Usually you can only go after the leaker or anyone republishing the IP. Simply having access to it isn't a crime. Perhaps they could issue some sort of takedown notice for the schematics.
101.
by bkanber 6y ago
I took it to mean "unofficially and as an outsider".
102.
by bkanber 6y ago
Here is Bezos' mandate from 2002. Quite prescient: https://jesusgilhernandez.com/2012/10/18/jeff-bezos-mandate-...
103.
by bkanber 6y ago
Day trading has been a problem ever since it was invented, 45 years ago.
104.
by bkanber 6y ago
Robinhood is not the first. The whole concept of day trading already "gamified online trading into an addiction", and that started in 1975 and had its peak popularity in the 80s. The author is really just complaining that this gam
105.
by bkanber 6y ago
Yes, Electron is a bit of a battery hog. But the Slack app itself is horrendous. If you read through their API docs and then try to figure out how to recreate the app, you'll see why. The architecture of the API simply does not match t
106.
by bkanber 6y ago
The nice thing about batteries is that you can add them up to whatever voltage you need. Common electronics voltages are 5V, 9V, 12V, 18V, 24V. You can achieve all of these with different numbers of rechargeable AA or 9V batteries. However,
107.
by bkanber 6y ago
I experienced the same issue when I was in college. I discovered that the way to learn for me was to find a niche category of projects and do them on my own. I actually wrote a blog post about it a while back: https://burakkanber
108.
by bkanber 6y ago
No no, that didn't sound aggressive at all! Though I still wouldn't say the project was trivial, just very limited in scope. And had I done everything perfectly -- meaning, being able to stream code from my head with no errors --
109.
by bkanber 6y ago
Good suggestion, I will have to try that out!
110.
by bkanber 6y ago
That's a good point! I did not need to relearn core concepts. The bulk of that 12 hours was actually spent debugging negotiation and timing/race issues in the signaling/SIP layer. Even for me, figuring out how the WebRTC API
111.
by bkanber 6y ago
I've never actually gotten { echoCancellation: true } to work for me, but your sibling comment does have a suggestion I need to try out! Echo cancellation is a pretty lightweight DSP/FIR task. Whether you do it close to the hardwa
112.
by bkanber 6y ago
WebRTC doesn't do everything for you; it's really just responsible for tying together ICE with media streams. Signaling is up to you to figure out. For instance, multiple clients in one room: this is part of the signaling layer an
113.
by bkanber 6y ago
I also decided to learn WebRTC and built a video chat app project: https://zonko.chat The last time I did any p2p networking was back in 2002 or something when you still had to do it all manually. We used all sorts of fun tricks
114.
by bkanber 6y ago
STUN fails under symmetric NAT, not strict NAT. That google document makes no citations of that 92% figure, but I assume that's for desktop traffic only. Pretty much all mobile/cellular connections would require TURN too.
115.
by bkanber 6y ago
So I have both the 4gb pi and the 2gb one. The 4gb pi does a pretty decent job at basic browsing, but Youtube doesn't really work. VLC videos with certain encodings and filesizes work, others don't. I can infer that the 8gb pi is
116.
by bkanber 6y ago
> No, this is a terrible response. As an aside, this kind of hyperbole really gets under my skin. It wasn't a terrible response. That statement is already technically correct : GET is idempotent, and the definition of idempotency
117.
by bkanber 6y ago
> Am I just getting too suspicious? Yes, I think so. What's the conspiracy supposed to be here?
118.
by bkanber 6y ago
It's pretty terrible. ORMs like Doctrine use annotations because their philosophy is that a data mapping class should be a pure class that you decorate with annotations. I personally hate that approach and have had no issues avoiding t
119.
by bkanber 6y ago
To be fair, I've been working in PHP for nearly 20 years and I've been able to avoid annotations almost entirely, except for that one time I used Doctrine and then threw it in the trash.
120.
by bkanber 6y ago
My own take on it: https://zonko.chat My thinking is that you should be able to control where you go and which group you stand in.

More ›