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kenrikmon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)

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

kenrikmon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)

I would suggest listing the location / onsite / remote

kenrikmon How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and profitability

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

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.

kenrikmon Be Kind

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.

kenrikmon Be Kind

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.

kenrikmon Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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"

kenrikmon Wal-Mart in Talks to Buy Web Retailer Jet.com for $3B

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.

kenrikmon The Fight for the “Right to Repair”

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.

kenrikmon Nikola Motor Company

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.

kenrikmon For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies

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

kenrikmon We Need a Better PC

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.

kenrikmon In 1975, the USSR fired a cannon from an orbiting space station

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?

kenrikmon iOS Apps Using Private APIs

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...

kenrikmon The Lost Canals of Venice of America

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

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

kenrikmon Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'

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.

kenrikmon For San Francisco Cab Drivers, Once-Treasured Medallions Now a Burden

“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.

kenrikmon New Horizons: Pluto displays rippling terrain

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..

kenrikmon Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

The solution is not to tax "toys" as you call them, there are already plenty of existing tax dollars to go around. The larger issue is that we would rather buy 1700 F35 fighters instead of funding NASA for the next 10 years. Actually even the F35 is a slightly more reasonable use of money then some of the other things that make it onto the budget. The money is there in many cases but the will to use it for NASA is not since to many NASA is considered a toy.

kenrikmon Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition

Likely HDMI 1.4, 24fps @ 4k, 30fps @ UHD. Interestingly the new Apple TVs hardware is capable of 4k even though it does not currently "support it" (HDMI 1.4, and A8 with can play 4k)

kenrikmon Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition

The original Wii shows that yes, they do. The Wii was SD when HD was the hot thing and yet still sold like hotcakes (at the time) because it was casual (non gamer) friendly.

kenrikmon The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be (2003)

"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"

kenrikmon The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work

In my apps I generally use the Hamburger menu to hide stuff that's required but not used very often. (Settings, legal agreements etc..) Since engagement is lower for these things anyway it allows you to have them there if needed without cluttering the main content that should be the focus.

kenrikmon The economics of a web-based book, year two

Hacker News. I can’t say I understand the purpose of this site, founded by venture capitalist Paul Graham. I have two guesses. One is that it’s like Reddit for programmers, but they can claim that using it is work, not goofing off. My other guess, since it has no ads, is that it acts as Mr. Graham’s panopticon into his community of interest, as Cerebro does for Prof. Xavier. Anyhow, whatever bored programmers are spending their money on, it’s definitely not me.

lol That sounds about 90% right. In my experience most people don't even blink if they see a programmer with HN open.

kenrikmon Intel Skylake Review

DDR3 and DDR4 are about the same performance and Skylake supports DDR3. You most likely don't need to upgrade your RAM regardless.

kenrikmon Intel Skylake Review

Z97 is useful because if you decide to upgrade to one of the higher end overclockable CPUs in the future you can. I found the difference in price can be really small or the same. I went with a Gigabyte Black board which is around ~$135 on Amazon and supports SLI. http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-Motherboard-I...

kenrikmon Intel Skylake Review

I can recommend the i5 4460 which is about ~$180. It's a locked 4690k for about $60 less but honestly is able to play even the most demanding games on Ultra settings (Witcher 3 / GTA 5) if pared with a good GPU. I would advise picking up a Z97 Motherboard to go with it so if you do want to upgrade the processor in a few years you have a path to the higher end of the Haswell line.

kenrikmon Intel Skylake Review

CPUs seemed to hit their sweet spot around 2010 and have not made a huge amount of practical progress since. Up until about 2 weeks ago my gaming PC was running a i5 750 a processor released back in 2009 and still able to run all but the most demanding games on max settings GTA5 being the exclusion. Even my video cards (GTX660ti in SLI) are on older side having been released back in 2012/2013?.

Recently My PSU Blew and took the motherboard with it so I purchased a i5 4460/Z97 Combo for about $300 from Amazon which clears up the bottleneck in GTA5. This CPU is already a year old but I'm glad to see it's within 1-2FPS of the new chips in most games. Most likely won't even need to look at upgrading for another 5 years.

I think to some extent intel is backing themselves into a corner with this release, their last generation was so good (i5 4690k or 4460) that Skylake seems rather lackluster.

kenrikmon A Eulogy for Objective-C

Objective C has been around since the 1980s, it has a long history with NeXT and Apple thus is very mature. Code you write in Objective C now can reasonably be expected to stay very similar going forward. Swift however is still very much in the wind where you run into "well this language feature has not been implemented yet" and with each version that is released your code needs to be migrated or changed to accommodate the changes in the language. The path forward is clear with Objective C vs Swift where you just don't know if some of the issues will even be addressed. I've been writing Objective C since 2007 and Swift since shortly after it was released. Swift still has a long way to go before I would use it as the starting language for a new app that I expected to have users / maintain.

kenrikmon How the Witcher 3’s economy was saved by polynomial least squares

Wait you can buy stuff? I'm at level 10 and have not bought anything since I just steal from every chest or sack I find and no one seems to care that I'm taking their stuff 95% of the time.