nairobi

Type Nairobi in the search box, and you'll see that Akamai has a presence in Nairobi.

In 1980, the bus/matatu ride from South B to Downtown Nairobi (near Standard Chatered bank) took about 10-12 minutes.

Nothing will cost the same if you buy it in Nairobi or in London, because price is a function of demand.

If you decide to offer everyone in Nairobi a $million to join your super-jumpers space-exploration program, because Nairobi correlates to high jump ability, you will find that low jumpers will flood into Kenya to collect on your offer.

A class mate(from high school) of mine actually went to work in Nairobi he's getting paid about 300K US a year working a vascular surgeon(i think).

Summary: Nairobi needs a datacenter, with Akamai and Cloudflare.

I was maybe living 10 minutes drive from the centre of Nairobi and no one could agree on what my actual address was.

I lived in Nairobi for the summer of 2004 (in Buru Buru for half the time and then in Kibera on the map) and I would have loved to have this information at the time.

This isn't so great if the latency of the 2-way data you care about is between someone in Nairobi and Atlanta but it is a big improvement between for 2-way interactions between people in the same community using the same Ground Server.

As I said elsewhere in the thread I worked with some Kenyans and a few refugees in the Kakuma camp, and I do not get the impression Kenya, Nairobi or elsewhere, is just flush with jobs at the moment.

There are a bunch of reasons (IMF structural adjustment, corruption, poor planning etc) I'm kenyan and remember that in the 80s it was relatively quick for me to get to downtown Nairobi, or to School (for anyone who knows Nairobi, I was commuting from South B to Nairobi Primary School).

I could either have my parents drop me (they worekd in the CBD and drove there), take a bus to downtown Nairobi and walk to school from there or take another bus to school (I used to opt to walk the 2nd leg and buy these really terrible SciFi books 'Perry Rhodhan' that were translated to English from German, but thats another story...).

From the Masai herdsmen in Tanzania to the dirt dwelling inhabitants of the Kibera slum in Nairobi.

A great way to add to the destruction of everywhere between Nagorno-Karabakh, Lagos and Nairobi.

We're looking a full-stack developer to join our small team of 7 in Nairobi.