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Hernanpm··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
Other countries adopting it is already happening. I live in Bolivia, and a few events made QR payment systems widely used across the country. I have family in Peru, and it is a similar case with Yape, another QR payment system. In Bolivia, fintech companies also offer integration with Pix in Brazil without the need for a CPF to send and receive payments. Since we are neighbors, this is very handy.
Hernanpm··on Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
thanks, this is what I was looking for for my upcoming interviews.
Hernanpm··on Ask HN: What kind of technical blog should I start?
I asked myself this question, and I got an answer by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis - Write an Excellent Programming Blog - PyCon 2016[0]

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHXq-IzlGUE

Hernanpm··on India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman
I agree it is happening globally, I'm from South America and there are statistics of birthrate fall as well in my country. As personal experience in my company ~90% are single childless and we are in ours 30s 40s.
Hernanpm··on From Competitive Programming to APL
My first job as Software Engineer, the recruiter found me because I participated in ICPC contests, I don't know how common it is today but it happened ~10 years ago.
Hernanpm··on Queues are Databases (1995)
remains me to: Martin Kleppmann | Kafka Summit London 2019 Keynote | Is Kafka a Database? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuE6JvQE_CY
Hernanpm··on Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
In android I use Voice
Hernanpm··on Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook’s Fact-Checking Systems
At my country (Bolivia) during the coup we noticed real news being reported as fake news and take down, fb tools don't really work in either side real or fake.
Hernanpm··on Lego to open 160 new stores as other toy retailers suffer
I practice scrum with legos.
Hernanpm··on Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
how would you reproduce a bug otherwise
Hernanpm··on Ask HN: What are your best learning methods/hacks/tips?
Learning how to learn course in coursera is by far the best resource, I compiled some other resources in my wiki https://github.com/hrnn/wiki/wiki/Lifelong-Learning hope it helps.
Hernanpm··on Ask HN: Do you search for podcasts episodes based on a topic?
Hi I sort of do the same, when I read a book I usually look for podcast interviews or book reviews about the book, and as a software engineer when I want to pick up a technology to learn before start following tutorials I look for podcast about the particular technology this is great because people is forced to describe the technology(framework/library/utility) in speaking words.
Hernanpm··on The “10,000 Hours of Practice” Myth
The article confuses practice with deliberate practice.
Hernanpm··on California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project: governor
does it mean Elon won again?
Hernanpm··on Apple makes billions from Google Search each year
interesting, that is the price to stop apple create its own search engine.
Hernanpm··on Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
sound like a war declaration who follows? amazon, miscrosoft...
Hernanpm··on Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
looks good as an alternative to my github wiki https://github.com/hrnn/wiki/wiki
Hernanpm··on Ask HN: How did you escape your safe 9-5 job?
Read Mastery by Robert Greene, great resource that talks about this topic widely.
Hernanpm··on Using Fourier Transforms to Multiply Numbers
In C++ thanks to complex the implementation is short see https://ideone.com/tbHUN7
Hernanpm··on Using Fourier Transforms to Multiply Numbers
This is well know in competitive programming usually it's the second best alternative after karatsuba.
Hernanpm··on Ask HN: How to shadow a CEO?
Mastery is a book that talks about this concept of mentor-apprentice I strongly recommend this book for your case.
Hernanpm··on My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb
Yes It is a personal wiki I started mine after reading Pragmatic Thinking recently, I have some examples from others too in my wiki https://github.com/hrnn/wiki/wiki#personal-wikis-examples
Hernanpm··on Ask HN: Need More MOOC on Discrete Math
Coursera is really good. Introduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science | Coursera https://www.coursera.org/specializations/discrete-mathematic...

Alexander Shen is one of the professors back in school his book helped me in stuff related to competitive programming.

Hernanpm··on Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?
If you have time I suggest to take the Georgia Tech Computer Networking course free at udacity https://www.udacity.com/course/computer-networking--ud436
Hernanpm··on Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee
That happens at G too, I remember the case where all open wifi were tracked by street view software while mapping streets, and it led to G being sued.
Hernanpm··on Ask HN: Any good online Discrete Mathematics courses?
I took the discrete math specialization https://www.coursera.org/specializations/discrete-mathematic... but I already had took a course at college, the coursera material was really helpful to fill my gaps.
Hernanpm··on Switzerland's valley of the cable cars
I commute by cable car too, here in La Paz Bolivia http://www.lapazlife.com/the-worlds-highest-cable-car-ride/
Hernanpm··on Ask HN: Books you should have read when you start a career in SE / CS?
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
Hernanpm··on MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning
yeah, that is right, found the link https://selfdrivingcars.mit.edu/
Hernanpm··on Ask HN: How do I prepare for an interview for AMZ/GOOG/APL/FB?
Yeah, this book is actually more helpful than CTCI
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