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jxubon How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

And one of them, "Trampa", means "trap" or "cheating" in Spanish

jxubon I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs

Apologies - it didn’t cross my mind!

jxubon What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?

Anywhere in Southern or Eastern Europe that’s pretty much always the case.

jxubon Zas Editor

And "dependancies" on the landing page.

jxubon Thank You HN

Same here - could it be the Mandela Effect in action?

jxubon Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos

Kudos (?) to the team. My guess is that they will want to roll out their own credit score system when paying by installments, rather than rely on Barclays as the credit broker as they currently do.

jxubon Dorodango: the Japanese art of making shiny mud balls (2019)

The article is interesting and well-written, but the author's initial in the sticky navbar difficults the reading. I hope that he notices that, but then again many people pay for an online journal and have a worse reading experience, so it's not that bad.

jxubon Ask HN: What publications do you have a paid subscription to?

London Review of Books - not only book reviews, and the best newspaper I found so far (the Economist is close).

jxubon My Python testing style guide (2017)

I think that behave (https://behave.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) is more useful for testing these more real-life usecases. I tend to have a `test_my_function` in pytest tests and the more integration and functionality-related testing in the behave tests.

jxubon 507 Mechanical Movements (1868)

Sounds like a cool HTTP response code when accessing a page with Selenium.

jxubon Ask HN: What will a Biden administration mean for tech?

More taxes for tech workers in the bracket of 400k+, though nothing extreme compared to many other developed countries.

Possibly some further regulation, but he isn't as leftwing (as in state policy-intensive) as many Trump supporters were led to believe.

Long term, probably more cleantech projects.

jxubon The Devil's Hair Dryer: Hell is other people, with leaf blowers

https://archive.is/8KaSu

jxubon Ask HN: Examples of young people who did hard things?

*Galois

jxubon A nasty election in Poland: A win for intolerance

Non-paywalled link: http://archive.is/vVkum

jxubon Rust Is Surprisingly Good as a Server Language

To the author: "per say" should be "per se". Good article anyway.

jxubon Payoneer blocks funds to thousands of users over Wirecard fraud

Edit my comment above: not really, got email that it's suspended until notice.

jxubon Payoneer blocks funds to thousands of users over Wirecard fraud

Today they have just unblocked their cards.

jxubon Apple is facing rage from developers over the commission on the App Store

A cut, yes. But a business-threatening third of the pie for essentially zero work on their part is extortionate and chokes the innovation in the whole app ecosystem.

I'm sure that App Store creators can chime in and expand more on that with real numbers on their balance sheet and what they mean in terms of being able to afford rent on a monthly basis.

jxubon Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?

Tiny difference, in continental Spain deploy is translated as "desplegar"

jxubon Deno Is a Browser for Code

I think Ryan is aware of this as it has been raised in some ocasions already, but it might be too complicated or costly in dev time to have before a new version bump.

jxubon London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline

http://archive.is/ZydIr

jxubon A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub

Can confirm (I'm in Europe, maybe it has to do with the regulations?)

jxubon CO2 emissions set to fall nearly 8% this year, the largest drop in history

Mind expanding on that a bit? The conclusion seems counterintuitive.

jxubon Lithuanian capital to be turned into vast open-air cafe

In Spain it's a extra on top of the salary but buying groceries with them is verbotten. You can use them to buy drinks at bars though.

Missing the time when I could eat at restaurants guilt-free almost every day at lunchtime.

jxubon Redux – Not Dead Yet (2018)

Or MobX which is also neat.

jxubon New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

Ah, sorry then, my bad.

jxubon New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

Both points of view seem valid, but patronising 90% of the programmers will probably decrease their overall happiness and retention. Also, some small companies do solve hard problems with no easy solutions both in terms of business logic and/or infra requirements.

jxubon New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

In a somewhat cynic remark (and having nothing against the authors), I cannot think of a better timing to assuage someone about Google's competency after the numerous outgages in GCP these weeks. The "Compliments of Google Cloud" sticker on the cover makes sure to reinforce the association.

jxubon Show HN: 33 line React

Weirdly triggered by the function arrows lacking spaces around them. Good work though

jxubon NPM Is Joining GitHub

NPM is joining GitHub, GitHub joins Microsoft, Microsoft joins... ;)