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You can come to Mexico City, with a min. 14ºC Daily mean temperature in winter and a max. 20ºC in summer. It's basically Spring all year long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City#Climate

Looks like their iOS app already uses swift and the android one is neglected. I hate that I feel like a 2nd class citizen when comparing Android vs iOS running apps, the Android one is just so inferior and buggy, once I lost like 4-5 runs because it could sync with its servers.

Actually no IPO makes it easier to be acquihired, I would be more worried not less.

Yep, Europe, I mean Greece, Spain and Portugal, has showed us that austerity definitely damage the economy.

> and the language will slowly decline.

I wouldn't be so sure for that one, the thing is unlike German, there is a country with 120M of Spanish Speaking people a few miles away, as Mexico's GDP keeps growing, US economy will become even more dependent of Mexico's trade. My point is people will get more proficient at Spanish over time, not less.

According to Fast.com FAQ, they use the same "servers" that Netflix uses for streaming:

> To calculate this estimate, Fast.com performs a series of downloads from Netflix servers.

So ISPs want a good Fast.com score then they should prioritize traffic to NETFLIX. A very smart move by Netflix if you ask me.

I'm pretty sure Roman Numerals arithmetic algorithms weren't lost, I looking for the source but in the meanwhile here's some of them: http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/...

I know Americans love their guns and I don't want you to amend your amendments, but you almost made an interesting point, just changing the 2nd part in your sentence:

> It's amazing that we've improved vehicle safety in the last 60 years, yet there's no progress in gun violence.

Well the position is Full-Stack, so if you don't mind do a few backend stuff you should be ok.

SinTrafico - Full Time | ONSITE - Mexico City, Mexico- Software Developer (mostly Python)

We have been building a wide array of analytics applications for logistics, market research, transportation and insurance industry. As part of the engineering team you will be working on different projects from the ground up, so I can assure you it won't be boring, also you should be comfortable doing minor devops, QA and pre-sales tasks.

What we are looking for?: (^ desired)

- Python

- Framework knowledge (Django or/and Flask)^

- Front and Back end experience.

- JS, HTML/CSS, SQL(PostgreSQL)^ , no-SQL(MongoDB)^

- Version control workflow (git)^ .

- We have both Jr and Sr positions open, don't hesitate to reach us!!.

About us:

- We are a well funded company and just raised a new round.

- Our offices are located at Polanco (currently deliberating to moving to Condesa)

- Cash Positive.

Perks:

- Unlimited vacations.

- Choose your own setup.

- Flexible hours.

- Large equity ownership.

- Informal environment.

If you're interested send me your info at paco@sintrafico.com (CTO - cofounder)

FYI Ixchel is the Mayan goddess of Medicine.

Not a computing history book per se, but has some chapters about Alan Turing and the work done at Bletchley Park in WWII. Also the best introduction book to Cryptography.

Simon Singh, The Code Book http://amzn.com/0385495323

And even then C was not the appropriate tool for the job, Postgis would have been easier and maybe faster.

The part time web developer can be remote?

Have you tried this https://github.com/andischerer/atom-keyboard-localization ? Looks like they almost fixed it.

it's hilarious, my favorites:

> .TXT: NoSQL before it was cool

> Advanced Notepad developer and VIM opponent.

> Hacking Notepad.exe : Using a hex editor to change the blue icon and more

> Workshop: Integrating Spell Checking Into Notepad. Attendees should bring a copy of Notepad, and a dictionary.

I kind of agree with you, point 7 is unrealistic, What problem could you give to the interviewee that could take a couple of days and that he/she will resolve it willingly and honestly. Yes it sounds nice but in practice I don't think so, totally agree with points 1-6 though

by reading this I just learned about the concept of chained exceptions, although I can't see why is so useful, the built-in traceback and sys module has always been good enough:

    import sys,traceback
    try:
        ...
    except Exception as ex:
        exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
        logger.error("%s:%s" % (str(ex),  str(traceback.format_exception(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback))))
        raise MyException(" :( ")

Yes, we have that problem in Mexico city, a long time ago a city Mayor gave the Taxi Union thousands of temporal permits (basically a piece of paper!) just to earn votes for his party, few years forward we have thousands of "pirate" taxis, more than the original permits because you know xerox machines, those unregulated taxis often commit crimes like assaults, thief or rape, and are able to get away because they don't have license plates or have fake ones. The last two mayors have started to crack down on pirate taxis, but you know what actually started to make them disappear? Uber.

I wonder how many software from the 70s and 80s in not so famous languages are lost forever. And if is there an effort to preserve such works?

I wonder if you need a camera that stabilizes the image or it's not needed or you simply get used to the motion. I said this because on of my projects at University was doing this same thing but for RC cars, and ooh boy!, we can't drive more than 10 minutes without getting dizzy.

This is not the main BBG website, but yeah I don't like the new BBG Home page design either, this post design (its a post for bbg/graphics) is actually really awesome and its main purpose is to be stereotypical "nerdy" .

    cpdef double _hot(long ups, long downs, double date):
        """The hot formula. Should match the equivalent function in postgres."""
        s = score(ups, downs)
        order = log10(max(abs(s), 1))
        if s > 0:
            sign = 1
        elif s < 0:
            sign = -1
        else:
            sign = 0
        seconds = date - 1134028003
        return round(sign * order + seconds / 45000, 7)

here's the function in question, so yes a newer post with fewer votes than a minutes older post will remain on top.

SinTrafico - Full Time ONSITE - Mexico City, Mexico- Full Stack Engineer (mostly Python)

We have been building a wide array of analytics applications for logistics, market research, transportation and insurance industry. As part of the engineering team you will be working on different projects from the ground up, so I can assure you it won't be boring, also you should be comfortable doing minor devops, QA and pre-sales tasks.

About us:

- We are a well funded company and just raised a new round.

- Our offices are located at Polanco (currently deliberating to moving to Condesa

- Cash Positive.

Perks:

- Unlimited vacations.

- Choose your own setup.

- 1 home-office day per week.

- Large equity ownership.

- Informal environment.

If you're interested send me your info at paco@sintrafico.com (CTO - cofounder)

if you have a couple of bucks for a DO instance and a domain, develop and opensource many sample apps to create a portfolio.

Some ideas from the top of my head: blog, job board, chat client/server, HN/reddit clone, FB clone.

Mexico has an interesting similar concept, it's called UDI: (Unidades de Inversión, Investment Units), it's a currency tied to inflation, its a currency tied to inflation and it's used by financial entities to hedge against inflation.

maybe you didn't read the article it says that Google also benefits from iOS users(although it says it's a risk that they lose the higher end niche), and the "poor" people are the ones actually ditching the google ecosystem entirely. The article never talks about poor people, instead it refers to places where google services are unavailable/unpopular, e.g. China.

edit: For those down voting, could you please quote the part of the article that implies this: " A lot of poor people use android , poor people don't spend a lot and don't click many ads.Therefore Android is doomed."

it actually contradicts the parent comment: " For years, Android apps were a backwater, but sales have lately picked up."

"In 2014, Google Play sold about $10 billion in apps, of which Google kept about $3 billion (the rest was paid out to developers). "

"Google’s app revenue is becoming an increasingly meaningful piece of its overall business, and it is also growing rapidly."

wait Ebay did spin-off paypal, Andreessen is still at EBay's board?

according to this study: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/world-2050/assets/pwc-world-in-2050...

Mexico will be the 7th economy in the world by 2050, Spain and Argentina 15th and 20th respectively.

In the US 1/4th of the population will be Hispanic in 2050, although this doesn't mean that 1/4th of the population will be Spanish native speakers, at least promises a high level of Spanish proficiency, source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/16/with-fewer-n...

If I could bet I'd put my money on Spanish.

As a Electronics engineer whom does software only, there's no way that superior education is going away anytime soon. Yes for Front end stuff and basic back end stuff any smart self-thought developer will do, but for anything more complex stuff you need at least a Engineering degree.