markessien

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by markessien 8y ago
I know a bunch of UI/UX folk, and I tend to just ping them if I have anything to design. Works quite well - many people will do a lot of short term work in exchange for pay.
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Proof of Improvement(markessien.com)
1 points by markessien 8y ago|0 comments
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Who I think Satoshi Nakamoto is(markessien.com)
62 points by markessien 9y ago|35 comments
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by markessien 9y ago
Did two remote internships for software developers in Africa - each with about 1000 participants.
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Startups in early markets easily drown when given too much money(markessien.com)
2 points by markessien 9y ago|0 comments
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by markessien 11y ago
Hotels.ng - Software person that wants to do management - Lagos, Nigeria - REMOTE Hotels.ng is a hotel booking platform for Nigerian hotels. We are a small startup and we're trying to make african hotels bookable online (most don'
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by markessien 12y ago
http://Hotels.ng . 10,000 hotels in Nigeria and none of them online till we added them. Done 6000, another 20k or so left to go across the continent.
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Two years in the trenches building Hotels.ng(markessien.com)
1 points by markessien 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How does one help a teenager teach himself how to read?
10 points by markessien 13y ago|5 comments
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by markessien 14y ago
Have an electronic device in the gun locker on the clip that holds the gun. Whenever the gun is taken out of this locker, an email/push notification is sent to the owner and other responsible family members indicating that the gun is out of
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by markessien 14y ago
Travel, it will build your character.
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by markessien 14y ago
What's the difference between "Girls Code" and "Black Girls Code". They both exclude a significant chunk of the population, but one is slightly more targeted than the other. They both exclude based on biology and facts on ground. It's the e
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by markessien 14y ago
This is what many people use facebook group for. To keep in close contact with a group of like-minded individuals.
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by markessien 14y ago
I think they are wrong. Those email scams are "old school" in the sense that they worked back when people were not really familiar with the internet or scams and lots of scammers got rich from that. The ones still being sent are probably ea
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by markessien 14y ago
Most people bashing Windows 8 have not really used it, or were not using Windows 7. I recently upgraded, and most of the time, I hardly realise I am in Windows 8. All my desktop apps work the same, I have all my apps pinned to the Dock (lik
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by markessien 14y ago
There is no "rape epidemic" in Africa. Not according to the U.N statistics anyways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#UN_Statistics You should be a bit clearer that you are talking about South Africa and perhaps Congo, and you
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by markessien 14y ago
The new disqus feels very much like the users are actually disqus users that happen to be commenting on your site. Not your users talking on your site. I'd put this on a fun site or a site I did not care very much about, but on a business r
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by markessien 14y ago
This euro debates show the silliness of countries dismantling their factories: Germany has a social market economy with high taxes and large social contributions. It also has a highly skilled knowledge-based economy. In spite of that, it re
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by markessien 14y ago
C is what you use when you should actually be using assembler, but you are not insane enough to actually do that.
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by markessien 14y ago
Target is actually nigerians who need a hotel at some location elsewhere within the country. Internet growth in Africa is off the charts atm...
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by markessien 14y ago
I started hotels.com.ng feb this year I think and it's already mildly profitable.
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by markessien 14y ago
Django is just badly designed . Many things in Django don't work right from the start, and changing them is a big, big pain. When I tried Django, I had to make some changes to the authentication (I can't remember well, but I think I wanted
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by markessien 14y ago
Try answering the question "What does it do?" by reading the copy on the website. Almost impossible. The questions I wanted to know were: Will VLC run on this? Can I download stuff and put on a hard drive? The website does not seem to indic
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by markessien 14y ago
There needs to be a quick overview of the syntax or how it works. I don't want to read pages of documentation just to figure out how it looks like.
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by markessien 14y ago
Feature phones will continue to exist as a cheaper alternative to expensive phones, but they just become more 'featured'. Don't forget that they have a much smaller screen, and chrome/safari may not want to accomodate the huge diversity of
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by markessien 14y ago
It would be strategically important to their growth. Opera Mini is the #1 browser in many developing countries, particularly in Africa and South East Asia. These are the regions that are also showing the most growth (and have the most poten
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by markessien 14y ago
These methods will not work for long, and it's not a basis for a business. The adverts are extremely intrusive and irritating for users.
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by markessien 14y ago
What we need are electricity powered flying cars. Then we can have green, walk-able cities and can use all that open space above us for transportation. We'll need some new kind of flying technology though, cos nobody wants to hear the loud
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by markessien 14y ago
Not having a co-founder is worse. A short discussion with someone who understands what you are talking about can make ideas much clearer in your mind than days of thinking alone.
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by markessien 16y ago
It's like a movie: instead of sitting down for two hours in front of the screen, after buying your ticket the seller could just tell you what happens at the end. There, you just saved yourself two hours of time you could spend productively.

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