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Life As An African Web Developer

Posted by timothy on from the grass-is-drier dept.

There's an interesting look at the realities of high-tech in Africa running on NewsForge -- specifically, one writer's account of starting a web development company in Ghana, dealing with obstacles including power problems worse than the norm in deepest California.

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  1. Vim by mackstann · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Vim - you know, Vi Improved? You ever actually read the :help iccf it tells you about when you start it up?


    VIM - Vi IMproved

    version 6.1.48
    by Bram Moolenaar et al.
    Vim is open source and freely distributable

    Help poor children in Uganda!
    type :help iccf for information

    type :q to exit
    type :help or for on-line help
    type :help version6 for version info
    (slashcode insisted on fucking that up, oh well, you get the point)

    Go read it sometime, it's pretty interesting, and was how I first became aware of this subject. Dunno if I'll ever move to africa... but hey, it's just one more idea to kick around for the remainder of your 70-some years on the planet.