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The Belittlers Conundrum – The search for the ‘Silicon Semenya’

Apr 11, 2013 7 Comments by

Ok, a disclaimer/warning as always. This is another one of my hard-hitting posts. Yeah. Like I have any boot-licking pussy posts up in this mofo? Not a “feel-good” blog post about how far we have come and how “good things will be in 3 years”. If you do not want to ruin your day with [...]

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My 2 months as the ‘Safaricom Head of Innovations’

Feb 12, 2013 25 Comments by

310pm. It was a warm Thursday afternoon that I decided to shut down Faustina (My Samsung Ultrabook). I had been coding for over 4 hours straight. The much anticipated AngryKenyans game was coming up OK. But the perfectionist in me kept on delaying any tweets or releases about the game. I did not like the [...]

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The sad state of the cluster – project on hold

Feb 07, 2013 19 Comments by

And so the blog post came. The iHub cluster is alive. She purrs. We are going to do great things with the awesome power of the nodes. It was meant to be, initially, a research project that would, eventually have a self-sustenance model. And the revenue potential for the cluster was immense. Given time and [...]

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A completely stupid Idiot’s guide to what @iHub and @theNailab is and is not

Jan 04, 2013 3 Comments

Gawd!! My blood boils with rage. Very many times, I have come close to a state of mind where I could get off my script, punch a bitch in the nose and then go back to code. People just DON’T get the purpose of these Tech-Spaces. “Relax Salim. It is never that serious”, an idiot occasionally tells [...]

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