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by buyx 13y ago
I was born in Africa and I'm trying to get out right now. It's not easy, but it's not impossible. I am also working at emigrating, and it is a painful process. Huge amounts of bureaucracy. I have to shell out for English ex
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by buyx 13y ago
Regarding fraud, I think that African (huge generalisation) governments just don't seem to take it seriously enough. Even in South Africa, where every SIM card should be registered, it isn't uncommon to see phishing emails with lo
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by buyx 13y ago
The political consequences will be interesting. One of the consolations if living under a tyrant is that they will, eventually die. I wonder if having Robert Mugabe around for another 40 years would excite Zimbabweans. The flip-side is that
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by buyx 13y ago
Strangely, despite coming from South Africa, where I've never heard the terminology used in real life (maybe it is, but I don't do much woodwork), I've watched enough American crime series that the wood terminology came to mi
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by buyx 13y ago
Does a lack of knowledge of physics really matter in the real world for most people? I was recently wondering if our terrible road safety problem in South Africa can partly be explained due to a lack of understanding of physics. After all,
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by buyx 13y ago
I wonder what the throughput of these doors is, and if it would work at larger airports. My guess would be no. Because of the high crime rate, most banks in South Africa have these double-door man traps (although less sleek-looking), and ev
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by buyx 13y ago
Google has always had a massive weakness: feedback. Feedback on products is atrocious -Google Now on my iPhone shows me a route home that would send me the wrong way up a freeway, and I don't know where to report it. Years ago, I ran i
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by buyx 13y ago
I get many errors because people (mostly younger people that probably don't use email regularly) type in incorrect email addresses (leave out the '@', use : instead of . and so on). While I've heard of this trend, I fi
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by buyx 13y ago
He is infuriated and with an overcompensating display of anger points out the only two things I am supposed to have as per the voucher. It's interesting- before we were married, my wife visited Paris, and someone in her party tried t
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by buyx 13y ago
Since the article was written in English, for an English speaking audience, who consider generally "über alles" to not be particularly offensive anymore (it has come to mean something like "all conquering"). I don't
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by buyx 13y ago
I agree that "Sub-Saharan" is very broad, but I guess OP intended "Southern Africa" to be "Sub-Saharan" Africa. Unless the equator was intended to be the dividing line- which would make the definition of "
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by buyx 13y ago
"Southern Africa", by most definitions, excludes populous countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Africa I think a better term would be "Sub-Saharan Africa&
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by buyx 13y ago
MIT used Scheme as a first programming language till around 2009. It doesn't really matter if a language is "old", as long as it helps students understand what needs to be taught.
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by buyx 13y ago
I agree about Java and .NET, but I haven't seen a Delphi job advertised in ages. Also, I wonder if you are being a bit harsh about us being "extremely slow" to adapt to new trends, but that's just personal experience -ma
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by buyx 13y ago
I can't get to to the article, but I've read about the issue elsewhere. This outrage is a bit misplaced: 1) South African teachers/vendors/Education Departments lack the skills to manage non-Microsoft systems. Yes it sh
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by buyx 13y ago
There's a fair amount of money sloshing around the South African school system, being wasted, I am pretty sure that the issue, whatever it is, isn't i486 computers.
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by buyx 13y ago
No doubt. But, once again, to put things in perspective, anywhere in South Africa today, routinely giving rides to strangers is regarded as suicidal-the idea of Casual Car Pooling would be regarded as insane. And the robbers would probably
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by buyx 13y ago
Good point. Mobs beating suspected crooks up is frowned upon by the educated middle class (Rule of Law and all that), less so by the poor (which these security guards probably were), and who are more exposed to police ineptitude. (Not that
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by buyx 13y ago
I had similar thoughts reading this. However, American standards are far higher than our own, and they have a lower tolerance for crime: in Johannesburg we've had robberies outside Gautrain stations, where people have been shot, and th
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by buyx 13y ago
At the time, I doubt that overvaluation was a problem. More likely it was classic "buy high and sell low" panic writ large.
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by buyx 13y ago
Households controlling spending and debt may be smart, but withdrawing from stocks and investing in bonds strikes me as having been a panic move - not wise at all.
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by buyx 13y ago
Furthermore, the South African industry requiring degree'd software engineers almost all still follow a strictly waterfall process, being mostly the defence industry following DO-178 processes Interesting, I know one programmer who w
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by buyx 13y ago
And when computer science academics try to do programming, they often get it wrong. Having been academically sucessful during my undergraduate degree, but sidetracked by my career, I was recently looking at a prospectus for a one year post-
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by buyx 13y ago
The strategy of chasing price conscious consumers seems to have failed. Fairly recently, Blackberry was voted "coolest youth brand" in South Africa, while they flooded the market with poorly built, cheap Curves (I had a Curve, whi
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by buyx 13y ago
Section 8 of the Employment Equity Act: “Psychological testing and other similar assessments of an employee are prohibited unless the test or assessment being used— a) has been scientifically shown to be valid and reliable; b) can be applie
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by buyx 13y ago
Perhaps I was unclear. I don't think that they deliberately bias the tests, I do think that they don't rigorously validate the tests to prove that they are non-discriminatory, perhaps because of laziness, or because they lack the
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by buyx 13y ago
Software consulting places and body shops (unfortunately the line is increasingly blurry) don't generally do them. There was small software company in Jhb that used to send candidates for invasive IQ and personality tests to a psycholo
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by buyx 13y ago
It's common with big companies in South Africa as well. It may have to do with how difficult it is to fire someone under our laws, but a few months probation is usually good enough, and fairer.
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by buyx 13y ago
South Africa's digital TV migration has been held up for a few years, for various depressing, third-world reasons. Google seems to have found a workaround, according to the article, by detecting unused parts of the spectrum. Perhaps that's
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South African Police website hacked. Details of 16000 tipsters leaked.(sowetanlive.co.za)
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