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muriithi

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muriithik@gmail.com Twitter: @muriithi https://github.com/muriithi

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

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muriithi··on Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)
Not sure how Uber works in Sweden but in Kenya you can call a number and give your location and destination and they will send an Uber to you and you can pay the driver in cash.
muriithi··on The trouble with indiscriminate tree-planting in Africa
Why?
muriithi··on Old coal mines can be underground food farms
When I see all these high tech plans to grow food in developed countries, I always wonder how developing countries who sell food to developed countries will get reliable markets.

But then again no one owes poor countries a decent livelihood.

muriithi··on Ask HN: Do you use windows for development?
Yes. I develop on both Ubuntu and Windows.

I mostly do Node.js and Android development so I can work exclusively in Linux but some of my customers install my software on Windows. Always good to see whether everything works on Windows.

muriithi··on Thailand cave rescue: all 12 boys and coach successfully rescued
Also the fact that they kept together.

Would be interesting to know if at some point they were separated and if not, how they kept together in the dark.

muriithi··on De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
I also do not have data on almost all the food that I eat.
muriithi··on Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench
Kenya banned plastic bags last year and the difference is remarkable. A lot less trash floating around.

https://www.nema.go.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

muriithi··on Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer
Good progress, while in Kenya a national roll-out was postponed because of high global demand for the vaccine.

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Demand-for-cervical-cancer-vac...

muriithi··on Google's plan to deter aspiring ISIS recruits
When can we start seeing ads targeting Americans with links to the disastrous effects of "regime changes" and invasion of countries to effect "democratic change"?
muriithi··on State of African internetworking [pdf]
Which University was this?
muriithi··on Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
Good to hear that you have visited my home country before.

All the best.

muriithi··on What Do We Really Know About Osama Bin Laden’s Death?
Even if he was a Wahhabi many of those he inspired were not.
muriithi··on Django 1.9 alpha 1 released
I have been having the same experience.

You only spend some time grokking the basic syntax of the language.

Most of the time is spent getting the frameworks working and talking to one another. The frameworks having the same underlying language does not gives you much advantage.

muriithi··on Django 1.9 alpha 1 released
You can shed more light on what you mean by "node frontend"?
muriithi··on What is ADD?
Lots of reflows on Opera Mini.
muriithi··on Texas Lawmakers Pass a Bill Allowing Guns at Colleges
Kenya is far away from Texas but I wish some of the 147 students who were killed in their hostels on 2nd of April could shoot back.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garissa_University_College_atta...

muriithi··on Bill and Melinda Gates Are Spending Their Money the Wrong Way, Critics Say
How is funding new and efficient ways of fighting disease not part of "health-system strengthening"?
muriithi··on What I Learned from Building an App for Low-Income Americans
My sample is small but here in Kenya where most people access the internet through their phones, very few complain about "big" phones.

I have never looked at it from the income perspective though.

muriithi··on The risks of cheap water
How will you define "everyone"?

Will the government find out how many people live in a certain household and use that to arrive at a "basic personal amount" of water?

muriithi··on A Virginia hacker catches the attention of federal law enforcement
Don't Talk to Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
muriithi··on Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour
Why Africa and not Kenya?
muriithi··on Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04
Choices are better, no?

No one is preventing anyone from giving Debian a spin.

muriithi··on Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
Both have annotated source code

http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html

http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html

http://chrisawren.com/posts/Learning-Advanced-JavaScript-via...

muriithi··on Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
You have just described most of the politicians that I know.
muriithi··on Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
Since this is HN is it possible to limit ourselves to how CR will help Dropbox to market itself in countries where governments are hostile?

Does anyone know how Rice’s firm RiceHadleyGates would help DropBox do that?

I would assume that her elevation from consultant to board member means that she has been tried and tested.

muriithi··on Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus
Is procrastination as common in other fields like engineering, accounting, marketing etc when compared to programming?
muriithi··on Perl 5.18.1. Yes, it's alive
Thanks.
muriithi··on Perl 5.18.1. Yes, it's alive
How would the Perl 5 => Perl 6 transition compare to the Python 2 => Python 3 transition?
muriithi··on Mean Stack
I have used both. I find it easier to iterate using mongodb because you do not even need a schema to begin with.

If I want to move forward I can switch to mongoose or move over to postgres and node-pg.

muriithi··on Kenya Shilling Symbol
I just use the ISO 4217 code which is KES.
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