Hacker News: kenrikm

New comment by kenrikm in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)"

kenrikm — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 21:42:20 +0000

I'm a Senior iOS Engineer with a background in design. Just applied, look forward to talking with you.

New comment by kenrikm in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)"

kenrikm — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 21:17:23 +0000

I would suggest listing the location / onsite / remote

New comment by kenrikm in "How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and profitability"

kenrikm — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 03:10:03 +0000

Tesla is under $190kwh for their battery packs and falling.

New comment by kenrikm in "Be Kind"

kenrikm — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:24:42 +0000

Laughing at someone's code is like laughing at someone's painting or their novel or really any other creative endeavor. It's not ok period.

New comment by kenrikm in "Be Kind"

kenrikm — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:22:00 +0000

That is completely unacceptable behavior. If you were in my company I would petition to have you fired. I hold a strict no asshole rule, life is too short to work with people who would do something like that.

New comment by kenrikm in "Be Kind"

kenrikm — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:18:11 +0000

It sounds like your org is lacking in some basic leadership. If issues are brought up in the code it either needs to be corrected or justified with the team.

New comment by kenrikm in "Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars"

kenrikm — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:52:45 +0000

Or he could keep it as it is.. add a link to the page for a new page "For the Big Wigs" that's more enterprisey and uses words like "synergy"

New comment by kenrikm in "Wal-Mart in Talks to Buy Web Retailer Jet.com for $3B"

kenrikm — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 18:40:19 +0000

Even if the terms ate up 2.9B of the 3B an engineer with 1 point will still walk away with close to a million. I don't buy it.

New comment by kenrikm in "The Fight for the “Right to Repair”"

kenrikm — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:29:32 +0000

If you don't want a catalytic converter on your car for performance or intentionally running rich a/f mix etc.. you can put the O2 sensor into a "spark plug tool" that'll trick the O2 sensor into thinking all is well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqDmmLQ4pGk

Hacks are not required to be sophisticated to be effective and people will find them. Maybe for example if you place a 1/4 inch of extra plastic in front of the front facing radar it'll make the car follow more aggressively then it's calibrated for, who knows! that's a made up example but I expect this stuff is going to happen as it already does.

New comment by kenrikm in "Nikola Motor Company"

kenrikm — Thu, 12 May 2016 16:50:33 +0000

Heavy in relation to trucks is usually linked with "heavy duty" which is a good thing. Many truck manufacturers use "heavy duty" in their branding.

New comment by kenrikm in "For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies"

kenrikm — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:29:36 +0000

This is actually kind of a bad thing to do, since you're intentionally wasting other people's time.

New comment by kenrikm in "We Need a Better PC"

kenrikm — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:00:59 +0000

I'm not sure I get it? Why not just buy a Macbook and install Ubuntu? you get the nicely designed hardware and don't have to run OSX if you don't want to.

Ocean: a battery powered wireless server that fits in your pocket

kenrikm — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:56:33 +0000

Article URL: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/01/15/ocean-is-an-amazing-battery-powered-wireless-server-that-fits-in-your-pocket/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10910871

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Ocean: a Linux server you can fit in your pocket

kenrikm — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:12:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/ocean-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10902697

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kenrikm in "In 1975, the USSR fired a cannon from an orbiting space station"

kenrikm — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:52:54 +0000

The quoted range was two miles though I have to think that was within the atmosphere. Even in LEO something fired @ 1500mph relative to the source should continue to travel at that speed unless it interacts with something no?

New comment by kenrikm in "iOS Apps Using Private APIs"

kenrikm — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:35:26 +0000

It's quite trivial to setup a method that implements "NSSelectorFromString" [1] etc.. and have it read from a Json payload send from a server. It's very hard for Apple to check for that unless they have active monitoring on apps after the review process.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Genera...

New comment by kenrikm in "The Lost Canals of Venice of America"

kenrikm — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:10:00 +0000

We still have a functioning version in South Florida called "los olas" (Fort Lauderdale area)

http://www.pocockfineart.com/sitebuilder/images/1Aerial2copy...

New comment by kenrikm in "Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'"

kenrikm — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 05:21:14 +0000

You're kidding me right? Android applications are allowed to run daemons that will continue to run if you like it or not. [1] Due to Google's lax review process basically you can write a virus and post it to the store.

New comment by kenrikm in "For San Francisco Cab Drivers, Once-Treasured Medallions Now a Burden"

kenrikm — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:49:46 +0000

“I thought … there should be proper rules and regulations,” Batth says. “We have a very corrupt society back in India. With money, anything gets done. I never thought it would be the same in this country.”

I found quite a bit of irony in this quote, The taxi industry has historically been very corrupt. Bribes to city officials to artificially keep the prices for medallions going up (not adding new ones) and to prevent competition are common. I do feel bad for this driver but at some point if you're paying $250k for a chunk of metal you have to stop and think that what you're really paying for is a monopoly in performing a specific action I.E picking up passengers that hail you and this is not a guarantee that that business continue to be worth what it was.

New comment by kenrikm in "New Horizons: Pluto displays rippling terrain"

kenrikm — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:17:34 +0000

Also, lets not forget that this all really kicked off once we changed our style of governments feudalistic to capitalistic. It's not the last 100 years but rather the last 200 that made the difference the industrial revolution put into place the foundation for the advances of the 20th century. It's hard to get headwind on advancements when every few years all your stuff is being taken away due to the whims of the king/queen/new invaders etc..