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nearshoring cons

Water and energy issues. People is suffering lack of water in regions with hight industrialization level: El Bajío and El Norte. Energy supply is another problem. Not for nothing López-Portillo was in CFE (as Bartlett at present day); Calderón became president since Secretaría de Energía and Cárdenas Batel took a small office at PEMEX until the middle of this administration.

War against China has taken long time!

lets talk about speedy gonzalez

Once, a famous Mexican TV host said on a national show that the Yankees see our people in the elusive little mouse cartoon, whom they call greasers (not coloreds, less than coloreds: 4th class citizens). I don't know, but maybe the shot points in another direction: the little mouse refers more to the small Mexican economy than to the little people. The average stupid American thinks Mexico (small business) is just Monterrey.

dr who night 1999

Via BBC documentary about the famous TV show, I knew that Tom Baker was the 4th actor playing Dr. Who. Big discover: as a time traveler, when he dies, he revivals with another age (another actor).

Now, Dr. Who's outfit remember, to me at least, looks as Indiana Jones and The Daleks as ancestrals R2D2. 

I was hope to see Genesis of The Daleks or Daleks invade Earth, but I obtained so much more: back to 1981, when we were happy but don't know it.

coding is hard

Pick one project. Understand the problem. Read the docs. Practice. Become focused. Etc. There is not tricks: take time. Release the product, if you can (upload online). As to learn a language, not matter if it is Chinese or Java, because, at the end, is the same: communication.

On the other hand, it can give you the satisfaction of the solved problem. It requires creativity under pressure: get the solution or you'll be fired.

words and phrases

From movies, TV series, courses, web pages, books and magazines, heard in passing:

A man must have a code - Bunk, The Wire (One Arrest, S01, E07)

Are you saying you want resign?

As of this writing

At the time this video is recorded

At your service, sir

 

Best thing I do

Beyond the hype(rbole)

By grace of the gods

Can't believe what I'm hearing

DISCLAIMER: Not sure if everything is correct.

Do I know you?

Don't get the wrong idea 

Don't say I didn't warn you

Don't talk that

Don't toy with me

First is first

First of all

Give me a ring

Go ahead

Go out of vogue

Hold your tongue

Hope be do 

How many times do I have to tell you?

Hunt or be hunted

I am working in here! 

I can´t delete what I did

I don't fear my death (Modell in The X-Files, Pusher, S03E17)

I hate this war so much

It's easier said than done

It then

I'll tell you what

If I am correct 

If you change your mind let me know

If you don't have the time

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. 

IMO (In My Own Opinion) 

In one word

I've emergency! (Sully)

I wanna leave you 

Jump into the course and let's start it!

 

Keep out the way!

Keep go on

kindred spirit

Life is for the taking (In the Company of Men)

Like a UFO type-thing

Live on the now

 

Nobody said it was easy

Nothing but quality

Number of donuts eaten today

On last left

Pick on the phone 

People is the same where ever you go

Practice, practice, practice and don't be afraid to make mistakes 

Put food on table

Really the whole thing started

TACO (Trump always chickens out) - columnist Robert Armstrong, Financial Times

Take it or leave it

The blue screen of death — BSOD

The love of his life 

The mother never forgets (Dana Scully, The.X-Files.S10E02)

They drive me crazy  (The.X-Files.S03E13)

They never got me ( Thomas Veil, Nowhere_Man.E02.Turnabout)

This book was set in LaTeX by the author 

Truth be told

 

We all did it! (Sully)

We don't do that

What are you going do?

What ever you do, don`t worry 

What is it called?

What predictable is the dog, isn´t it?

What we are do

Why learning to code is so damn hard?

You did the job, be fine

the stuff project

This morning a question assault to me: Manhattan Project or Project Manhattan? If you make the search in Wikipedia, there is not different: you get the same post. So, is crystal clear: the answer is the first form.

In possessive case, is similar: The Alan Parsons Project.

I found a ¿mkt exception?: Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (ACM Press Books) by Niklaus Wirth.