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by zingar 6y ago
I followed links to find out more about the games referenced and I’m astonished to see a two player game that advertises 180 minute duration. Anything that long would have to be multiplayer to justify its existence in my schedule. Terra mys
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by zingar 6y ago
There seems a fairly trivial explanation: they were talking about the effectiveness of a mask in protecting you from what you breathe in, not the communal action of everyone wearing a mask to protect other people from what you breathe out.
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by zingar 6y ago
I work for a student lender (for postgrad degrees only), we're scrambling to handle all the classes that are being postponed, or telling their students not to fly and they'll start online (since we lend to international students,
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by zingar 6y ago
Prodigy Finance laid off or furloughed 30% of staff in Cape Town, London and New York. an investor pulled out of the next round AFTER signing a terms sheet and completing due diligence. The company had been hiring for growth, setting up a
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by zingar 6y ago
yes :(
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by zingar 6y ago
A ray of hope, and so quickly crushed. Well at least I know not to get my hopes up.
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by zingar 7y ago
http://iftheshoefritz.com It's mostly book reviews of tech classics and Ruby stuff right now. The books that have shaped my career so they're usually positive but occasionally a sequel really disappoints so I get more
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by zingar 7y ago
An investor pulled out of a SIGNED term sheet because of covid19. The last year of growth undone, 70 people plus contractors laid off. I have domain knowledge that no one else in the company does so I was spared. For legal reasons here it w
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by zingar 8y ago
It's weird to me that their version of cashless doesn't work for foreigners. Every vendor in South Africa takes Mastercard or Visa, or a mobile payment system backed by a credit card. It's not strongly linked to a local bank
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by zingar 9y ago
A few points from a Capetonian observing a potential disaster in slow motion: (a) I don't know how claims about the % of users who are toeing the water restriction line can possibly be accurate. what is the population of Cape Town - la
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by zingar 9y ago
He cites the Gervais principle a lot :)
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by zingar 9y ago
Your comment made me think of a book that I read recently, Developer Hegemony[1]. It explores how the modern corporate forces us into three roles: pragmatists who opt out of the game and find their identity elsewhere ("I'd rather
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by zingar 10y ago
Travelled 6 months of last year. I was ready to come home at the end. I could see my friends moving on with life and I felt like mine was standing still. This was partly because of not staying in one place for long enough to build meaningfu
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by zingar 10y ago
I did exactly this commute for 9 months in 2009. Saw the same people every week. With traffic on either end and airport waiting it was about 5 hours each way between Sandton and home in CT southern suburbs (before Guatrain, it may be better
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by zingar 10y ago
Firing people who accidentally install malware seems like a tremendous waste of what a human has to offer a company. Can you really afford to lose someone over something like that?
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by zingar 10y ago
The author clearly has no idea of Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma's history. She's a potentially powerful figure in South Africa's ruling ANC who is in a cushy job that is really political exile. As such, she's free to talk up id
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by zingar 10y ago
Here in South Africa there is an excellent service called 22seven.com which tracks my spending and income on various bank accounts (everything can be done with bank cards and bank to back transfers, cheques are not a thing). I pay an accoun
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by zingar 10y ago
This is interesting. Where in Africa does she live where dust is a problem but Internet is not?
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by zingar 11y ago
We just have to figure out how to take advantage. I think the IT industry is better placed than any other given that we're not trying to build using imported materials (or at least, we can charge a lot more than the cost of our importe
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by zingar 11y ago
Working from home for foreign clients I'm a bit cut off from the rest of the industry - and I don't work with games. Does the gaming industry have the same white/male slant that the rest of the industry does? Is there any rea
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by zingar 11y ago
Indeed. But an odd title for a sequel to "Grand Theft Continent" - the one where you build a ship, sail for a few months, then exploit a continent, ship its natural resources home, and force the local people into slavery. (don&#x2
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by zingar 12y ago
500 EUR per room seems like a lot, and not just for Thailand. I'm planning a holiday in France, I have a two bedroom place booked for more or less the same price near the beach in Marseille (monthly rate on AirBnB, not the cheapest opt
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by zingar 12y ago
I'm not saying you intended this, but to be clear to anyone else: there are no apartheid "dungeons" remaining, the system was dismantled 20 years ago. The obstacle to victims making their way to the US is the innocuous but st
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by zingar 12y ago
Being able to listen and see how changes to the waves make a difference to what I'm hearing is interesting for me as an amateur musician with some understanding of the physics, but I wonder how well this works for kids in this classroo
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by zingar 12y ago
From what I remember of my major in linguistics at UCT (I was lazy and it was almost 10 years ago): The Khoisan languages have a greater density of phonemes (there are more identifiably different sounds) than in any other on the planet. Thi
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by zingar 12y ago
The non-Khoisan languages Xhosa and Zulu (30 million+ speakers in South Africa, now far greater than the Khoisan languages) also have clicks, but in smaller numbers. One of the UCT Linguistics professors had a theory that the clicks that in
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by zingar 12y ago
No, I didn't know anything of the sort. I only noticed "Asian-Americans" and "Americans" in the same sentence once you pointed it out. I understand the offense that this could cause but to be honest I'd find it
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by zingar 12y ago
Ok fair enough. My assumption was that real estate everywhere in SF was in crazy demand and that if there wasn't demand that meant there was something wrong with the place. There was also OP's comment about being "alone"
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by zingar 12y ago
Thanks. I'm in Cape Town and I was thinking of rent numbers - having heard that a room in a shared house might rent for 2000$/mo in SF vs. say R2000 on the cheap end here. That rent number isn't based on fancy accoms but sinc
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by zingar 12y ago
You seem to be saying that race shouldn't matter. But how can we discuss this paragraph (about a neighbourhood that is different where the only reason given for that is race) without exploring what race means in that context? (personal

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