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Lead Solutions Architect @ Cube | I help companies leverage BI Analytics & Data Science/ML/AI to generate insights with real business impact.
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pacofvf··on Markdownify
there is a PHP and python "Markdownify" , both are HTML to Markdown converters, so they are different to this project, there is no Markdownify in the JS world that I'm aware of.

A better name could be WYMIWYG, "What you markdown is what you get" :P

pacofvf··on Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition
http://www.bq.com/uy/game-ubuntu and http://www.bq.com/mx/game-ubuntu 404'd for me, so no you can't buy them in Mexico nor Uruguay.
pacofvf··on Apple Watch Review: You’ll Want One, but You Don’t Need One
Probably Apple gave these journalist an Apple Watch for a pre-release review with the sole condition that they must wait until today to release their reviews.
pacofvf··on Born Red: Profile of Xi Jinping
> I dislike the sensationalist title, which is not really supported in the article.

> As the historian Mi Hedu observes in his 1993 book, “The Red Guard Generation,” students at the August 1st School “compared one another on the basis of whose father had a higher rank, whose father rode in a better car. Some would say, ‘Obey whoever’s father has the highest position.’ ” When the Cultural Revolution began, in 1966, Beijing students who were zilaihong (“born red”) promoted a slogan: “If the father is a hero, the son is also a hero; if the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard.” Red Guards sought to cleanse the capital of opposition, to make it “as pure and clean as crystal,” they said.

He is part of a generation that it's literally called "born red", I've heard that term before, I thought it was an analogy to being "born in Purple".

pacofvf··on Slack was hacked

    passwordHash = bcrypt(salt + password)
    encryptedHash = encrypt(passwordHash, pepper)
This way you can rotate your pepper by doing:

    decryptedHash = decrypt(encryptedHash , oldpepper)
    encryptedHash = encrypt(decryptedHash , newpepper)
pacofvf··on How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS
is there a way to use streisand at an existing instance of EC2/DO ?
pacofvf··on Latin America Is Quitting Smoking, and Africa Is Taking It Up
in Mexico ten years ago cigarettes used to cost 14 pesos, very heavy taxing puts them now at 45 pesos, 3.2 times more, its target price for the next five years is 100 pesos, or ~7 USD with current exchange rate.
pacofvf··on The 1980 Math Olympiad Program: Where are they now?
yep, he abhors the finance industry:

Andrew says: March 18, 2015 at 9:41 am

Nick:

You ask why I said “That’s too bad” after learning that Gregg is a vice president at Goldman Sachs.

Perhaps the best analogy is, what if you knew someone who was one of the top high school basketball prospects in the country, but instead of ending up in the NBA he made a career as a sports hustler, using trick bets to make money off suckers. This is not a perfect analogy, as this sort of sports betting is illegal, I guess, but the point is that it’s sad to see a great talent that is being used neither in its pure form or for scientific progress or the public good.

pacofvf··on The 1980 Math Olympiad Program: Where are they now?
Uber "just moves money around and takes a cut", same with AirBNB, and so any other marketplace.
pacofvf··on Apple Watch Keynote Live Streaming
The Verge liveblog is hilarious
pacofvf··on Solving the KAYAK crossword puzzle with code
for vertical, you could transpose the crossword then Ctrl+F, just being aware that the result has its columns and rows switched.
pacofvf··on Our Director of Engineering on the new Wired.com
I wish they had a section where you can see all the articles in chronological order (newer to older). they made a latest news section but it doesn't look ordered.
pacofvf··on Google now automatically converts Flash ads to HTML5
" when action script will easily be converted to html5, then all mobile apps will finally move to the cloud"

that thread is a gold mine.

pacofvf··on The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
But this is another Browser:

> This new rendering engine was designed with Project Spartan in mind, but will also be available in Internet Explorer on Windows 10 for enterprises and other customers who require legacy extensibility support.

pacofvf··on The Mexican immigrant who set up a global drone firm
you are probably right therefore he probably wasn't even "illegal", the article only says that he was just waiting to get his green card, he maybe held a visa.
pacofvf··on The Mexican immigrant who set up a global drone firm
he was an illegal resident for 8 months in 2007 and not a single part of his business is illegal. I would like to see some proofs of your ridiculous claims.
pacofvf··on Italian bank's almost risk-free cash-for-cheese loan
> Mozzarella arrests made after counterfeit cheese found in Italy http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-mozzarella-arres...

still it appears that counterfeiting DOP products is a profitable business.

pacofvf··on At Chipotle, How Many Calories Do People Really Eat?
You are maybe right, when I was in LA I wasn't actively searching for taquerias, although I ate at couple of them , like I said the most authentic tacos were the ones from a taco truck.
pacofvf··on Italian bank's almost risk-free cash-for-cheese loan
But let's say that the bank buys conterfeit cheese, and start mixing it with the original cheese (since that kind of cheese has designation of origin) and then sell the surplus? Nobody would suspect since the bank can say that the cheese it sells it's just defaulted loans?
pacofvf··on Snapchat Said to Seek Up to $19B Value in Funding Round
Groupon had US$ 3.195 billion in revenue for FY 2014, so no they are not groupon either.
pacofvf··on [dead]
how it works? looks like a VNC .
pacofvf··on At Chipotle, How Many Calories Do People Really Eat?
As a Mexican living in Mexico, I really like chipotle, I eat one every time I'm in the US, they are the greatest mix of American and Mexican food, still I don't understand why there aren't authentic "Taquerias" (taco shops) in the US, I haven't met a foreigner that doesn't love tacos from our taquerias that you can find in every corner in Mexico City. The closest I ever tried was at a Taco Truck in LA, but that was just one food truck.
pacofvf··on Direct Match (YC W15) Aims to Make Bond Trading as Easy as Stock Trading
>Unlike the stock market, the bond market doesn’t have a centralized system where traders can plainly see the fees involved in the trade.

I thought that, that marketplace is the bloomberg chat embedded in the bloomberg terminal, and IMO it's working good enough for big banks, I understand that lowering the barrier entry for FI will bring more liquidity but it's going to be a tough sell for big banks, which have >90% bond trading marketshare .

pacofvf··on US Healthcare Is So Screwed I Fly to Britain for My Medication
why not Mexico? it's a big destination for Health Care tourists, it's cheaper than Canada or Europe and you would only need to go to a doctor once to get a prescription and re-use that prescription. Also you would get to spend a few days in places like the mayan riviera.
pacofvf··on Capital One Fraud Researchers May Also Have Done Some Fraud
geosynchronous satellites are used for communications, mainly, not for imaging, Low orbit satellites are used for that.
pacofvf··on Front End Developer – Interview Questions
just avoid the fizzbuzz questions, they aren't a good benchmark for good developers.
pacofvf··on How automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking”
of course that was an hyperbole... and I'm the stupid one...
pacofvf··on Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars
If Matthew mcConaughey docked to a spinnig station and sandra bullock re-entered to earth like that, then Matt damon can survive that, also Andy Wier reseached a lot about the plausability of every situtation, but I'm sure "hollywood" will make this stupidly unbelievable or magically believable.
pacofvf··on Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars
In my head Mark Watney was Sam Rockwell, maybe beacuse of Moon , similar theme different plot.
pacofvf··on Nokia 215
> Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe

MS needs to preinstall whatsapp , otherwise a lot of people will prefer a phone with whatsapp pre-installed, I know that most of us would laugh about it, but believe me, In my country people buy phones just because the box has these logos: whatsapp, FB, twitter.

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