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Kenya's mobile money M-PESA API(safaricom.co.ke)
3 points by hgh 11y ago|0 comments
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by hgh 11y ago
Zoona | Cape Town | http://www.ilovezoona.com Zoona helps people send and receive money when they need to most so that communities can thrive. We have built a network of local entrepreneurs in Zambia and Malawi that manage 1000
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by hgh 12y ago
I've been hoping for a while that github and similar would parse source files and allow me to hop through to definitions and other usage for tokens throughout a repo. I'm not yet convinced I need a cloud IDE, but this would be a
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by hgh 12y ago
Hi there, I work for a mobile payments company called Zoona (check us out at http://www.ilovezoona.com ). Our tech team is based in Cape Town but all of our actual operations are in Zambia, Malawi and expanding to a few more cou
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by hgh 12y ago
".... and you "just check in" or promise to be available if anything comes up. You respond to just one email or just one GitHub issue." When people need to be "available" while on vacation it usually means that
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by hgh 12y ago
I'm a hiring manager and it's a surprisingly rare but strong signal that someone has a record of contributions or portfolio, especially given how low the barrier to entry is. It's practically an automatic interview given the
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by hgh 12y ago
I recently took the plunge and started biking to work semi-regularly as well. Here's a few points that got me going. Sweat. If you have a shower at work then great. If not there's no reason to go full tilt on the way to work.
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by hgh 12y ago
I tried to hack on g++ as part of project years ago, but really struggled to make any contribution. The codebase is indeed monstrously complex, but the core development team is also very protective. A secondary effect of the growing compl
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by hgh 12y ago
Especially in teams, one thing I've found that helps in documentation is standards and templates. If everyone knows exactly what to document, how to document it, and where the documentation lives then it's much more likely to get
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by hgh 12y ago
Ungated version: https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi... . Evidence points to keep at it
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Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing? Evidence from NBER(nber.org)
1 points by hgh 12y ago|1 comments
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by hgh 12y ago
What the article misses, though a few commenters pick it up, is that this discounting is also a form of price discrimination to maximize profits. The institution will charge each customer based on their willingness (ability) to pay. The s
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by hgh 12y ago
Two points, one on the project you mention and one on the article.. I worked on the Colalife project in Zambia via Zoona, a mobile payments company, and it's worth understanding how distribution of the product actually evolved. Coke ha
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by hgh 12y ago
ZAR caught my attention as well. I'm an expat in SA, based in Cape Town. Feel free to get in touch - hans@zoona.co.za
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Lunch with the FT: Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber(ft.com)
2 points by hgh 12y ago|0 comments
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by hgh 12y ago
Zoona ( http://www.zoona.co.za ) - Cape Town, South Africa Zoona is a mobile payments company focused on helping small and medium businesses in Africa grow. We provide a payments platform, innovative financing, and data analytics
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by hgh 13y ago
Zoona ( http://www.zoona.co.za ) Cape Town, South Africa Zoona is a mobile payments company with a passion for helping businesses grow in Africa. In countries like Zambia (Zoona’s core market), businesses of all sizes struggle to
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by hgh 13y ago
Checking my profile beforehand might have helped :) Feel free to get in touch - hans@zoona.co.za
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by hgh 13y ago
Hi, send me an email on hans@zoona.co.za. I'm a Canadian working in Africa, so would be great to chat
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by hgh 13y ago
Got a few interesting nibbles after posting on the who's hiring posts, but specific hiring submission didn't get far. We're based in Cape Town, so perhaps reader geography plays some part. If you're in our part of the w
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Hiring in Cape Town: drive mobile payments growth in Africa
2 points by hgh 13y ago|0 comments
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by hgh 13y ago
Perhaps the name is based off the R language (which came from S), a major data/stats language. Data representation comes before analysis, hence Q? Renaming marshaling, couldn't tell you.
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by hgh 13y ago
Zoona ( http://www.zoona.co.za ) Cape Town, South Africa Zoona is an African payments business with a passion for helping businesses grow by enabling “Easy Quick Safe” payments between Corporate Suppliers and Micro & Small Ent
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by hgh 13y ago
I find it pretty interesting that email isn't even an option in that list.
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by hgh 13y ago
I had a similar experience, small plane over a relatively hilly area in Zambia. It took me a bit to get past the assumption that the vibrating around my leg wasn't a structural problem with plane....
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by hgh 13y ago
I've spent some time in the economics field and certainly found that getting access to quality data was an enormous challenge. In fact a good amount of the work is spent putting together data sets. This is probably the bulk of what e
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BlackBerry agrees sale in $4.7bn cash deal(ft.com)
1 points by hgh 13y ago|0 comments
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by hgh 13y ago
Perhaps referring to a theory about glaciers over a continent melting and essentially "raking" the soil to create a relatively robust and even quality, which didn't happen so much in Africa as other places.
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by hgh 13y ago
Zambia was a relatively wealthy place in Africa around independence, but the economy relied almost exclusively on copper, which is one of the most volatile commodities around. The pseudo-socialist government led by Kaunda helped unify the
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by hgh 13y ago
True, but pretty much a tautology. Zambia has been growing at 6+ % for 6-7 years, raised a massively oversubscribed bond issuance to invest in infrastructure, and a Transparency International corruption perception index score just shy of It

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