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jmkjaeron Start test names with “should” (2020)

A unit of work is not necessarily a class, but rather its methods. The linked article states that

> A unit of work is a use case in the system that startes with a public method and ends up with one of three types of results (...)

I use the same naming as well, and I really like it.

jmkjaeron Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

I have mine on a shelf. When visitors ask me what it is, I tell them about all the awesome things you can do with it. It's great until they ask me what I use it for currently.

jmkjaeron Apple Cash

That was true but isn't anymore. MobilePay is now part of a Norwegian company, Vipps, which is owned by a consortium of Norwegian banks (65% ownership), Danske Bank (25%), and Finnish OP Financial Group (10%).

jmkjaeron How to make small tweaks to free software

I understood the intent of it being just a local change and not submitted. You're right that submitting it would be a bit more involved, and other people would probably protest, since the prompt was added deliberately, so why not just keep it local?

jmkjaeron How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend

The author of this article, mzrnsh, responds to comments here, but they are "dead" and can't be viewed without being logged in and activating "showdead" in profile settings, which is unfortunate. I don't have enough karma to vouch for them to be unflagged.

jmkjaeron How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend

I really like this story!

> I said I could build it over the weekend. It was Friday.

I wonder how long the ideation phase took. I know a fair number of people, myself included, are bad at defining "true" MVPs, and it takes time to cut an idea down to the bare minimum. I would definitely not be able to do that AND implement it in a weekend.

jmkjaeron PNG files can be animated via network latency

This is cool! It's interesting to see how programs handle this - the thumbnail in a specific gallery app on my Android phone is the first "frame", while it's the finished image in my file explorer.

jmkjaeron Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing

Seems like Firefox Send, but it was discontinued due to it being used to spread malware. I wonder how Wormhole will combat that.

jmkjaeron Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry

For anyone unfamiliar, Google3 is apparently Google's monorepo, according to this HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17123620

jmkjaeron Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime

Do you have a source for this? A quick Google search shows your comment as the top result.

jmkjaeron AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation

> I believe a researcher coined a phrase for this but I can't remember what it was.

There's an article on Wikipedia called "AI effect", I don't know if that's what you had in mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AI_effect

jmkjaeron Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

> Havent read the article

Please do. The article has a paragraph that addresses this.

jmkjaeron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)

Location: Denmark

Remote: Prefer in-office

Willing to relocate: Not at this time

Technologies: Python, C#, Java, Linux, SQL (Postgres, SQLite), TensorFlow, Docker, Git

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/jmkjaer1

Email: my username at Google's email service dot com

Software engineering student with a master's at the end of June from a university focused on group projects. Mostly interested in backend.