Hacker News: Wheen

New comment by Wheen in "Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs"

Wheen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:36:42 +0000

> will rely heavily on public chargers

Public chargers =/= DC fast chargers (like Tesla superchargers).

I've already seen level 2 chargers that drop down from light posts in my city. Roll those out to every light post near apartment buildings and throw in some curb-side stalls if you need more capacity. Most people won't need to charge every night with 200/300mi+ range, so you won't need a 1:1 mapping of chargers to cars. This way, people charge passively overnight at stations that are cheaper to build than DC fast chargers.

New comment by Wheen in "HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users"

Wheen — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:20:10 +0000

As a former HBO dev, can confirm that the majority of test cases or random debugging messages are Game of Thrones quotes.

New comment by Wheen in "Never judge a programmer by their commit history"

Wheen — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:04:34 +0000

Sorry for the late reply.

Recently, mostly Python and Javascript

New comment by Wheen in "Show HN: Google Music for Mac"

Wheen — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:33:59 +0000

For me personally, just scrobbling.

At this point, that's the only thing stopping me from using it. Looks great, but I'm a stat freak and I need my scrobbling.

New comment by Wheen in "Never judge a programmer by their commit history"

Wheen — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:25:28 +0000

As someone who is (Probably a bit more than) a junior dev with no formal education or experience in a team, do you have any suggestions to write better code?

I feel like my code would be considered bad, but I have no idea what good or bad code looks like. Does anyone have some examples and comparisons between good and bad code?

New comment by Wheen in "Life of Brian (Krebs)"

Wheen — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:56:20 +0000

>Technically adept attacker

It was a 15 year old kid http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...

New comment by Wheen in "Microsoft's cheapest Surface tablet won't cost $1K after all"

Wheen — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:46:52 +0000

I have a friend who claims his aunt (Who works of MS) said that it would cost $1k (This was literally the day of the announcement, too). He has been rather reliable in the past, but it should still be taken with a grain of salt, since I was given no context.

New comment by Wheen in "MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge"

Wheen — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:22 +0000

Airs shouldn't be that bad. IIRC, Linus runs one.