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pacofvf

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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 Technical interviews and the Towers of Hanoi
I never go for the recursive solution rightaway, if I'm the interviewer and the developer goes for the iterative solution then it means that he/she didn't memorized(or googled) a few lines of code, instead he/she is actually trying to solve the problem, even if the developer doesn't succeed it's more valuable than the developer that got the recursive solution at the first attempt, sadly most interviewers think that if you can solve puzzles with the "right" solution in the minimum time, then you are the best candidate for the job.
pacofvf··on Uber drivers say rideshare surge pricing backfired on New Year’s Eve
I checked the Uber app in my city at 12:30AM and the rate was 2.0x, closed the app, reopened it until it was at normal 1.0x around 12:50AM, 4 USD was my bill , I used it again at 3:30 AM and the surcharge was 1.5, used it anyway since I was really tired, my bill was 6 USD.
pacofvf··on Air Fares 101 – Why do fares change all the time?
1. search a flight.

2. search it again.

3. the price has surged.

they don't track individual users, they track the search queries, this makes me wonder if flight search services are just rising the entire market prices, instead of a user only searching once, they constantly search the same query.

pacofvf··on Lyft for Work
no IE9 support, and showing a blank page with this message "Hey! Your browser is not supported, certain pages may not render correctly! Try updating your browser at http://browsehappy.com . " ? Many people like me don't have a choice.
pacofvf··on The House Always Wins
the plant was previously owned by General Motors and Toyota
pacofvf··on The Shazam Effect
www.midomi.com and soundhound also works by humming or singing the song, I don't know why shazaam hasn't integrated this into its features.
pacofvf··on [dead]
It looks better like this:

> Currently, I'm founder and board member at Attractor.

pacofvf··on Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend in 6 months
Great game, just a few silly nitpicks, the UI looks a lot like Etermax games, I hope you do ad free versions, I didn't liked so much the Spanish name (Apuraditos), also I don't know if that word is used in all the Spanish speaking word. Saludos desde México.
pacofvf··on Shop with a Girl
mmm Men only buy clothes when they need it, I mean if I needed a tie right now I would go to a store and buy many ties, nothing else. Of course there are many compulsive shopping males, but those are probably ok with shopping alone, I think the service would be better if it's sold as a makeover service. just my 2 cents
pacofvf··on 'Love hormone' controls sexual behaviour in mice
So the "love hormone" side effects are:

> Oxytocin is a natural hormone that causes the uterus to contract. Common side effects include redness or irritation at the injection site, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, cramping, or stomach pain.

http://www.rxlist.com/pitocin-side-effects-drug-center.htm

pacofvf··on Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today
yes it does!!! Netflix removed the user-agent restriction on Chrome: http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/19/netflix-linux/
pacofvf··on Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today
how does Netflix(or Chrome) knows that is running on Ubuntu, and not on other distro?
pacofvf··on The Limits of Friendship
I hope my girlfriend doesn't read this.
pacofvf··on The Limits of Friendship
I was at a huge high school, there were 55 alumnus per classroom, and 15 classrooms per generation, my friends at the University were a subset of the ones at high school.
pacofvf··on The Limits of Friendship
In high school I had 30 casual friends and 15 close friends, at University I had 20 casual friends and 10 close friends, now I have 10 casual friends and 5 close friends, I predict them to reduce to zero when I get married. :(
pacofvf··on How does a computer chip work?
ohh I remember when I built my first Von Neuman machine with eeproms, gals, flipflops and multiplexers, it was a 16 buttons "simon says" game, I used 6 protoboards and kilometers of copper wire.
pacofvf··on The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada
What if Pirate Joe's becomes very popular and decides to start making its own products?
pacofvf··on Ask HN: What should i answer to a question about salary?
find out your salary range where you live, ask 20% more but tell them that your are willing to negotiate or accept less if it's the "right" job. If they really want you, you get to keep that extra 20% , if you are just ok then you get a market rate which is a good thing too. If they are not willing to pay the market rate then maybe is a good thing to not work with them.
pacofvf··on Show HN: Javelin Browser
there are many services that download apks from play store, but beware that doing so you violate google's TOS
pacofvf··on Your brain makes decisions while you sleep
"sleep on it" now makes more sense, in Spanish we have something similar "consúltalo con la almohada", which loosely means "ask your pillow about it"
pacofvf··on Why did science make little real progress in Europe in the Middle Ages?
I did, I just disagree that we can discard a dark age just because some Universities were founded as soon as the eleventh century, Europe literacy levels wouldn't match the Roman ones until the 19th century. Also the Muslim world invented the scientific method centuries before the western world did. (Jābir ibn Hayyān)
pacofvf··on Why did science make little real progress in Europe in the Middle Ages?
Indeed, maybe there was no scientific dark age in the Middle ages, at least not globally, but It was a dark age in Europe, knowledge was lost, the (roman) world economy collapsed and entirely disappeared, economic throughput and population would not recover until the industrial revolution[1]. The dark age ended when the last remaining of the ancient Roman world was forcibly dispersed from Constantinople, most of it found a safe harbor in Italian cities that would become the center of the Renaissance.[2]

[1] Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization

[2] Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization

pacofvf··on Apple Pay
From the user POV, it's the same:

1. upload your Credit/Debit card info to an app(passport/wallet)

2. your phone must have NFC.

3. pay with your phone at a NFC capable terminal.

pacofvf··on Apple Pay
if by similar you mean actually the same, yes they are similar
pacofvf··on Create a food ordering app like JustEat with AngularJS
Great!, you should add a payment api (fulfill via stripe, paypal, et-al), most of freelancer's gigs are e-commerce stuff, you could even take a cut.
pacofvf··on Ask HN: I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I start?
Yeah, the LOCs in one of the biggest banks in the world is close to 10M (including: Trading[eq & ficc] , Credit, Mortgages, Wholesale, Wealth Management, Quant, Risk, and also UIs, tests , reports , recons, interfaces) , I don't think a task like that was given to single person, usually with that base of code a big IT consulting company is hired.
pacofvf··on Ask HN: What is HN reading?
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization - Brownworth, Lars
pacofvf··on Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby
I'm in a football(soccer) country and I play every Saturday, we do it just for fun but we always have trouble finding other players (teammates or adversaries), for which I see a great potential for your app. For those who want to play at a upper level they just gather a team and join a league, they would only use your app the first time while they are gathering a team, or when replacing a member. Most amateurs play seven-a-side football (futsal-like rules) or indoor soccer(a.k.a. arena-soccer, showbol , five-a-side soccer).
pacofvf··on Earthquake early-warning system gave 10-second alert before Napa quake felt
yeah, recently the most popular seismic alert app in Mexico City had a false alarm, many buildings were evacuated, but no quake arrived. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=h...
pacofvf··on Venteo – a new picture sharing app. What do you think?
looks like event[s]tagram was already taken :(

http://eventstagr.am/

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