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Comment · 2 years ago
What happens to Spring and suite of family?
Comment · 2 years ago
I think many people from the Global South would agree with you and not just Africans. That was also exactly my thought when i read the headline, even though he did nothing against my native Kenya. Also, the phrase "Third World" isn't the most appropriate one to describe a good chunk of the world.
Comment · 3 years ago
>Many Ethiopians speak a Semitic language (Amharic) for reasons unknown to us.

Amharic isn't the only Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. We have other Semitic languages spoken both in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is just the Red Sea that divides these two countries from the other Semitic speaking countries. Yemen, across the sea has other Semitic languages other than Arabic. Also, just like Indo-European is a large grouping of languages, the Semitic languages are ordinarily grouped under Afro-Asiatic languages. Thus, besides some of the Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea, we also have two other subgroups of Afro-Asiatic namely, Cushitic and Omotic languages that are also spoken in Ethiopia. Amharic thus is well contextualised for Ethiopia.

Comment · 3 years ago
Similarly, I can no longer browse HN on a Firefox browser on Android. I am not really sure what exact settings changed. This started a few weeks ago.
Comment · 3 years ago
Now, i am also tempted to search this but will pass.
Comment · 3 years ago
No it isn't.
Comment · 3 years ago
For one to use WhatsApp to make calls, for example, one would need to provide it with permission to view the call logs without making WhatsApp the default app for calling.
Comment · 3 years ago
The Guardian changes to the Gaurdian then to the Grauniad and then, finally, the Guarrdian.

Innocent typos or there is some joke i missed.

Edit: as per other comments this seem to have been a joke.

Comment · 3 years ago
owasp-change.github.io
Comment · 3 years ago
Winget is a new thing in Windows one could use though sometimes it has issues.
Comment · 3 years ago
A different pet peeve of mine on iOS is the USSD menu which is center-aligned, and i find that very ugly. Maybe the usage of this menu isn't universal but for someone from a developing country, we use that like a million times a day. Mostly we are choosing a menu item to continue with a dialogue and the numbers are not aligned.
Comment · 3 years ago
Checked MySQL and i see almost everyone pronounces it as My Sequel. Well, with the exception of Marten Mickos, who was the CEO of MySQL before same was acquired by Sun Microsystems. I guess, this would be another tomato, tomahto.
Comment · 4 years ago
Might probably be corrected but his first name was Mehran rather Merhan.

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