kenrikm

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by kenrikm 12y ago
I go to the Fry's Palo Alto store, it has a decent selection of parts/components if you stay to the right half of the store. (Left hand side is all TVs and Sales guys yuck..) If you want a larger selection of electronic components
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by kenrikm 12y ago
If you've been to Radio Shack recently, they have a decent number of Arduino kits and the like.. however I don't think people are not dense enough to pay $60 for a kit you can purchase for $20 on Amazon. I think their was a point
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by kenrikm 12y ago
IIRC from what I've seen Lyft issues an on the spot insurance policy for each individual ride.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
When I was a kid I used to have a councilor that had Tourette's Syndrome, he was one of the nicest people and really helpful and good at his job. However every now and then he would have an attack a spitoff nearly the same vitriol F$%
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Not shipping heavy batteries halfway around the world should help. But labor costs will be significantly higher in the US. Not sure if it'll come out to a wash or not.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Based on this I think we can see a recovery attempted on one of the upcoming missions that will actually support it. Very cool stuff.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Not that I did not see this coming but I wonder if the title is a Freudian slip or intentional. The Next Chapter.. is 11.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
I'm been sticking to UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) "Drone" has some negative connotations attached to it.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
In my experience you always loose employees when moving offices. It's a really weird feeling just after the move and takes a while to get back into the grove.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
I think getting more minorities in STEM from an early age (K12) would be a good start.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
They may just buy Uber (they are a big investor) and run their own fleet.. Lets not forget Google also has Google Shopping Express and their mapping cars.. making those self driving could be a huge thing for Google. Example: Shopping expres
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Which is worse losing a test vehicle or losing pilots? Latency should be a non issue at the distances they are dealing with.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
The lowest price I was able to find for a used Model S within 500 miles of San Mateo, CA 94401 was 70k..
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by kenrikm 12y ago
The Telcos have been documented to be in bed with the government for almost as long as they have existed [1]. [1] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2022653...
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by kenrikm 12y ago
There are tricks that iOS Devs (including me) use to make iOS cleanup after itself, for example iOS can take its sweet time releasing memory from MKMapViews even after the controller is gone so a trick is to switch the Map Type just before
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Focus on your core competency, as someone who has run production mail servers in the past I know it's not something you really want to do (My advice: don't) there is always some fire to put out or blacklist you were put on that
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by kenrikm 12y ago
I can't help but think that taking the more money at current company could turn out bad unless you sign a contract with breakup terms.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
CurrentC managed to piss off both iOS Users and Android Users + they are a payments platform. I don't know if you could paint a larger target on your back for blackhats.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Given that it's unlikely users will jump ship if they are happy with it over $1/year and the fact that they have 400 million users I think there's a pretty good chance that revenue number will come up.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Apple Pay is just a wrapper on your credit cards - if you damage or lose your phone you still have those dinosaur plastic cards to fall back on.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
CurrentC - All that's good for us (Retailers) nothing that's good for you (Consumer). It's so bad it almost seems as if it's a giant April Fools joke. As I write this, CurrentC has a one star rating on the App Store: con
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by kenrikm 12y ago
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has exactly that. http://www.computerhistory.org It's a pretty cool place to spend an afternoon.
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Stanford Prison Experiment(prisonexp.org)
3 points by kenrikm 12y ago|0 comments
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by kenrikm 12y ago
I think the most important takeaway is that he did not try and screw over the early shareholders, integrity is important. The story about the $280,000 drafting table is relevant, they needed the drafting table it contributed to the succes
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Sounds like a Chromebook.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
I grew up in Fort Lauderdale, I worked there for a while after I finished college and own a house there. (Now in Bay Area) It's not just the wages they will have issues with: even if they pay SV rates the talent just is not there. Mayb
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Very Difficult, I own a house in Hollywood Fl,(Well.. close enough Miramar), There's a reason I live in the Bay Area now and rent my house.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
"This is the beginning of the end for cable. And hopefully also for propaganda stations like Fox News and MSNBC." Fixed.
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by kenrikm 12y ago
Why not give the person several choices each day - but default to the main choice if they don't modify it? then rotate between the choices (yesterday's #2 is today's #1)
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by kenrikm 12y ago
As an interesting factoid that may be it is in no way related to the point Andreessen is making. Startups are warming themselves by burning piles of money and a harsh winter is coming.

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