dazzle37:
Hello, please I want a good fairly used laptop, either

UK or USA used please


Hp probook or any other good HP , corei5 or core i7 , with 16 or 17inch screen. 500gb or

something close enough but preferably 17inch screen.

Please if available contact me on 08050887458.

Location : Lagos.

Just go on Amazon and buy it yourself. Use a reshipping company, these guys ship to Nigeria https://www.fishisfast.com/en a laptop weighing 2.8lbs is about $45 USD to reship via USPS (4+ weeks) or pay more for Fedex/DHL ect. They also open the box and offer to turn it on for you to prove it works before you ship it to yourself. To save money find some people you know who want to import clothing or something else from Amazon and combine it with the laptop they do consolidation.

This is a good list of free courses for learning actual computer science like ML/Crypto/Type Theory ect.
https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
- for example this CMU course is good, teaches you how to make your own dbms: (youtube lectures) http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2017/schedule.html



The Front End Developer's Handbook 2017 (Free pdf/links)
https://www.gitbook.com/book/frontendmasters/front-end-handbook-2017/details
- after you do this to get better pay somebody from here to pair program with you since you best learn from other people more advanced than you.
- try hackerrank exercises
- to get a job use toptal.com or shill yourself on upwork, or try weworkremotely.com or jobspresso.co though often no beginner jobs there.
- toptal hiring process explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10109036 they pay OK, better than what you'll normally make in Nigeria to start then after a while you can leave them for higher paying remote positions

All these books above you can get on library genesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

There's other OSs you can try too

SmartOS is Illumos (Solaris) based, it's free and is a server OS you run off a USB stick. Has KVM, DTrace, a bunch of various Solaris tools which are really good for uptime, basically you can run a personal cloud with SmartOS quite easily and it's reliable.

NixOS and Guix(sd) are functional systems. You configure your entire system with just one file. This means you can replicate the system anywhere, do transactional rollbacks to fix configuration problems, there's a bunch of benefits. Guix is a clone of the NixOS package manager written in Scheme, and you can install it on any existing Linux system like Debian/Ubuntu ect. You install packages with Guix as a non root user, and you can install dozens of different versions at once if you wanted. For example you can have 10 different GCC or Python versions all existing at once without interfering with each other. GuixSD is the experimental full system that's not entirely ready yet but you can play around with it in a virtual machine. Another benefit is 'guix environment' which completely replaces virtualenv and docker. You can put anything in there or write an app, and then deploy it as is instead of screwing around with virtual environments.

The benefits of GuixSD is you can now script deployment of entire servers, so write one file config, then 'guix deploy' and you can replicate it to any server. NixOS is the same thing.

Also if you want to learn more about LInux or BSD just go on library genesis (libgen . io ) and get a pdf file of 'Linux Unleashed' or 'Absolute FreeBSD' or any other NoStarchPress tech book

There's a bunch there like Yahclick and coollink. Cool Link cheapest for unlimited I think is NGN90'000 for only 4Mbps so would be slow. SpaceX and Facebook are both in a race to provide global internet by 2019 that's extremely cheap otherwise you're stuck with all the ripoff artists overcharging for data.

sade42020:
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Can someone plz help confirm

google the address https://www.nairaland.com/3044460/real-scam-gnld

This place censors links, so just google "jiji kaduna jobs" and you'll find a bunch.

Here's one posted today for a driver, also looking for document delivery driver apparently:

"Requirements:
Applicants must have minimum of 1 to 3 years of experience in driving and automobile maintenance.
SSCE, Diploma, OND in any field.
How To Apply:
Interested Applicants should forward their Cv to or send name, address, phone number to the number display on this advert. Please note that Applicants who apply more than once will automatically be disqualify and all calls/inquiry should be done during working hours and days alone. (8:00am-5:00pm) Monday to Friday."

The phone number is 08028183596 "Ray's Corporation" text them you're a grad, have driving exp and are willing to start right now.

Python is the easiest to learn and deploy, and since Django framework does all sorts of security for you the learning curve isn't so steep. PHP is a dead language, it'll disappear in a few years.

Nobody is really making web apps anymore, they are making phone apps and hosting their mobile app backend on Heroku, Google App Engine or something similar. We are no longer limited to working with garbage browsers we can all go back to client side programming again

Personally I would recommend learning

Python
Racket/Scheme (Lisp)
possibly Java or C, so you can hack Android devices and operating systems

I make android custom builds, and a few apps but they are all crypto apps. Android game dev is pathetically easy, we're talking early 2000s graphics and low memory use. It's like people churning out 1990s side scroller games

Lisp (Common lisp/Scheme/clojure ect) doesn't really have any syntax, just the parenthesis everywhere.
This is why it's usually taught first at schools like MIT because you don't spend forever learning syntax you just start coding.

An easy way to learn functional code is go on the Racket/Scheme website and go through the free learning materials.
http://racket-lang.org/learning.html "How to design programs" is basically a rewrite of SICP

If you know Lisp, then doing languages like C or Python is a joke, can learn their syntax in a weekend or so because you already have all the fundamentals. You can make Lisp OO easily too. Lisp is so powerful you can do anything you want including making up your own new language with it, you aren't limited by high level

What is the most reliable, easiest and cheapest way to transfer money/cash within Nigeria borders? Post office transfers? Any recommendations? Would opening a bank account and accepting cash deposits be an easy payment method or would the bank charge ridiculous fees and lineups be huge? Thanks, needing to know

SICP is definitely not overrated. You will be an excellent programmer if you've done and understood the book and assignments, and hack around/research LISP (Scheme, the language you learn in the course is a dialect of LISP). You will learn immutable data structures, type inferencing, lazy evaluation, monads, arrows, pattern matching, constraint-based programming basically everything you need to know in order to quickly learn Haskell and other functional languages, all of which are in high demand for employment right now. Average quality coders are a dime a dozen, but a LISP hacking developer who is fluent in Haskell, Clojure or Scala is going to be offered high paying remote positions, so you can work out of Nigeria and make a ton of cash and have the talent to launch your own startup. Why try to outbid dirt cheap Python coders on every remote contract position when you can charge 10x as much with an expertise in functional programming they won't have.

The power of LISP allows you to do anything, including object oriented programming. It also takes a fraction of code to make something happen in Scheme than it would in C or other languages. This means you can think up any insane ideas and try them out immediately in Scheme to see if they are possible, then go and write it in another language for production release.

Look around tech ads in San Francisco, NYC, Canada and UK there are plenty of startups looking for functional programmers and they even say in their ads that if you hack around in LISP you are given priority, because it means you probably are a creative developer who isn't just looking to bang out half-assed code for a paycheque. You can contribute, which translates into more money, more opportunities, and launching your own startup in Nigeria.

You also get a lot of jobs from contributing to open source mailing lists, and even LISP hacking mailing lists. These are remote positions, so if you have a laptop and internet connection you are good to go. Remember that Sr. lead developers are reading the same mailing lists, and when positions come up they can now recommend you, because they read your posts on the list and see you know your stuff, and you build a rapport with them. So it's easy for them to recommend you, skipping interviews, skipping HR department robots, skipping the application pile you may get lost in.

As for time, it doesn't take long at all to do this. You could go through SICP everyday after work for a few months and then when you are solid in it move on to other courses, or just start coding. Now that you know the fundamentals, you just need a book on C that will teach you the specific syntax/API's it uses. Or Python, or Scala/Java, everything else is easy.

It took me one year to do the following in my spare time, everyday after work:

SICP course/book

MIT Intro to Computer Science

Also 18.01 MIT Calculus, and Intro to Algorithms 1 and 2 which are all on coursera. I've also done about 3 various Software design courses on coursera like this one: https://www.coursera.org/course/programdesign and watched countless Defcon, Blackhat Con and BSDcon videos and lectures.

If I had a p/t or no job, would've taken less time. Anybody can easily do this with dedication and hard work it's not impossible. Payoff is $70k/year remote position to start, more money when you are more experienced. I don't know how far $70,000USD goes in Lagos these days but probably pretty far, you'd have a better lifestyle than I have here in Canada that's for sure However you also get a green card/citizenship offer with any F/T position usually. Save the money and launch your own startup in Nigeria, then be your own boss. These are the tools you need, or you can just churn out PHP scripts and scrape by while low ball bidding on those awful rentacoder sites. Your choice



There's also recent MIT lectures uploaded in full to Tech TV like 6.004 Computation Structures if you're interested in engineering. You can also just look at the regular course homepage for any MIT course, and go through their calendar. Some of them are open to the public and you can view all the lectures, PDFs and assignments as taught that semester.

You guy's be CAREFUL going to work in any arab country. They take away your passport and often pay you less than half that was negotiated. Dubai was built using slave labor if you don't want to be one of these poor bangledeshi guys do not bother working there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU

You have zero rights in those countries.

The best programmers did not start at an early age. A good example is Charlie Miller (@0xcharlie on twitter) he was a mathmatician that didnt start coding until he worked at the NSA for 5yrs. He learned how to do it by on the job training and reading books. Now he wins hacking competitions every year. I dont think he started coding until he was 30 or so

If you are dedicated and code as much as possible, and use the right resources to learn you will be a good software dev

Steam now works on Linux http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/steam-on-linux-everything-you-need-to-know-1148286
So you can play Counterstrike, Half-life 2, bunch of other games.

ksington: please i really want to knw which pc windows version is the best and latest. some guys say its windows 7, to some its windows 8, but i was told i was told the latest is vista
I'll really appreciate ur advice thanks.

Windows 8 is the latest version, but it's mainly geared towards mobile devices and tablets. You can use it on PC though. Win 7 is good enough depends what you want to do. I don't use windows, I've always used Linux because it's free, and OpenBSD.

yuvrajjain: Will the NASA be able to reach to the Sun? Now here that doesn't mean it should reach with a human.
Will it be able to solve the issues of apocalyptise? or be able to know when it will happen?

Anything you send towards the sun will probably melt lol. No point in going there, it's just a giant fireball we can observe all we want from here easily.

India and China do the same thing, because they can. No copyright law so can just word for word copy American movies.
The movie 'Barfi' which was huge in India, was basically hacked together all from stolen scenes of other movies. When they tried to submit it to the oscars it was rejected for obvious copying lol

They are starting to do this, HBO and AMC both uncensored cable networks are starting to do orig series from directors. Quentin Tarantino will prob move from movies to 6hr HBO specials instead, or DVD.

Movies released in US are making so much in Asia now that they are already paid off by the time they release it domestic, so there is still big demand for making films instead of straight to DVD or cable.

All governments want to snoop on the phones. If you don't want police or government snooping then get an Android phone, and install Redphone + Textsecure for encrypted voice and text (Free). It's better than blackberry, because BB will hand over your info to Nigerian authorities I wouldn't trust them. BB is also using a single encryption key, with Android you use your own encryption key nobody else has access to it.

Be sure to encrypt your phone too. Pick a large password, then reboot phone. So you don't have to type in giant password everytime you want to unlock the screen, download a 3rd party screen unlocker from google play store (free). Install it and now you can pick a short unlock design, and if you reboot phone it's still encrypted, so have to enter long password.

They won't ban blackberry, India threatened the same thing and then BlackBerry gave them a snooping key so they can unlock everything and read it.

4llerbuntu:

erm, kk.

pls enlighten us, what does your "dev"-ing custom Roms for nexus fones have to do with the prices?

and last i checked, google was NOT selling nexus 4 for 309 dollars.


and what does 3G/Lte have to do again with your "dev-ing"?


#just curious. i guess u live in madagascar or kuala lumpur right?

8gb Nexus 4 in Canada is $309 https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb&feature=device-featured
I am just wondering what they cost in Nigeria, and if it's easy to buy a Nexus 4 (or Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus) in Nigeria.

If they are easy to get, I make a secure custom ROM, which I sell here locally to Chinese businessmen who used to buy a blackberry, go to China on trips, then throw it away when they returned because the Chinese govt hacks all foreigners phones looking for industrial espionage. They can't hack Grsecurity Kernel + SElinux android, so we have been selling a lot of them. If there is demand in Nigeria, you guy's could do the same thing I do. Seems the Nigerian government want to ban blackberry, which means BB will give them an unlock key to read every single BBM, text and listen in to voice. With custom Android rom, they can't do that so will be high demand.

I use Heroku and sometimes Google App Engine, plus Amazon EC2 cloud service for a lot of hosting.
For sensitive website, you would want to host in Iceland where there is ultimate freedom of speech. That's where wikileaks hosts.
For file linking website, you would want to host in Spain, because file linking there was declared legal. Can also use "bulletproof" Russian hosting.

For cheap hosting, just go through the bitcoin wiki https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade and find hosts. I've used Cinfu they're ok and cheap. For DDOS protection subscribe to Cloudflare.com and if you have enough money upgrade to pro ddos protection through them. Blacklotus and Prolexic are awful, overpriced and do not protect.

Yeah, no hackers learned from school. There are tons of free online resources that will teach you anything you want to know about computer science, university or paid school is not necessary.

Then read security blogs like Krebs on Security, Bruce Schneier (cryptologist), seclists.org and start going on russian hacking forums. Get the book 'Greyhat python' you can find free ebook easily. There's also metasploit books everywhere.

If you want to set up very secure web servers, routers, firewalls, wireless ect for companies then use OpenBSD. It's free, easy to use, secure by default and in high demand if you know what you're doing, and can program in C plus script in Python/Bash. Look for ebook 'Absolute OpenBSD 2' it just came out, matches OpenBSD 5.2 release.

Hardened Gentoo w/Grsecurity patch and SElinux is another good security distribution but you have to build it all yourself.

emmausa: Pls those who hav used the online method how do u upload ur documents in order from the saved docs in ur computer, am seriously havin problm during that because after uploading one document it doesnot allow me to upload another one, pls help me.

what website are you trying to upload to? try a different browser, download firefox (free)

mozo:

What about in terms of job availability.. Nah that one be the koko for me o!

http://victoria.en.craigslist.ca/ some jobs posted here, also check canada job bank. (google it) and search for victoria. can also check local newspaper the Times Columnist they have online job search.

since so many students lots of jobs are filled during school year then desperate for workers in the summer when many students leave to vancouver

mozo:

Do you have any details about Victoria BC?

yeah victoria is small, cheaper than vancouver. its all students or old retired ppl. Uvic big university is there plus lots of colleges. most students there relaxed stoners lol. you can take a ferry over to vancouver whenever you want.

theres also more girls than guys there, will be easy to pick up girls in clubs and bars

I live in Vancouver Canada but dont know anything about immigration since I was born here. I do know if you get a f/t job offer while on student visa you can get citizenship.

Be careful of scam schools, I can check out a local van school if you want. Not a lot of Nigerians in Van but doesnt matter, all ethnicities live here like Chinese/korean, middle east and a lot of students from all over the world.

temiosunrinde: Plx can someone here teach me how to hack a wirelesd signal from companies that lives around me?is there anyway out?I want to be browsing free with there locked wifi signal

backtrack dvd/cd is a live operating system with all tools u need. just look on youtube how to use it search for "wep/wpa cracking backtrack"

if its wpa you capture the handshake then upload it to a pw cracking service like cloudcracker.com or you go on bitcoin forums and look up password cracking lots of guys use their miners to hash passwords.

you could always just ask them to use service too, maybe split the cost then its cheaper. if you do this dont leech their bandwidth with a ton of torrents or anything, and always change your mac address

Forgot to add with some of the coursera courses you actually get credit, like a statement of completion from the university. You dont need this for coding/compsci though cuz your online portfolio is your resume thats all anybody cares about.

What is the typical street price of a Nexus 4/ Galaxy Nexus/ Nexus S in Lagos?
Just asking, because I dev custom ROMs for them and was wondering how easy they are to buy there.
Google sells nexus 4 here for N 48,000 or $309USD, can usually pick up used Nexus S for $100-200

What are your data plans for them like as well? Do you get unlimited data? 3G/LTE speed?

All hackers should watch this, it's a presentation by thegrugq at Blackhat convention:
youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU (OPSEC for Hackers) it teaches you how to be properly anonymous by comparing mistakes other hacker groups did. Make sure you watch it, even ethical hackers should know this

Here is how you give yourself, a real computer science education (for free).
If you do these courses you will be an excellent software engineer, and in high demand. You will learn proper safe coding and security, and the quality of education is high so you can work anywhere in the world from home. All links below are to free universities and youtube playlists:

Khanacademy.org https://www.khanacademy.org/

Has all math courses you need, plus programming.


MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/index.htm#electrical-engineering-and-computer-science

You get:
-Video lecture on youtube
-Recitation videos
-Lab assignments
-Tests/answers..to test your own knowledge

They have online all the math courses that go with these classes, like 18.01 Calculus. You don't have to buy any textbooks, most of them are free downloads, if not you can find any computer text you want from the 4chan /g/ (computer board) official computer science book repository: http://books.gentoomen.org/ you download the magnet link then can get all these books (free) http://books.gentoomen.org/listing.html you can also take MIT math courses too, plus other science courses. Most compsci undergrads take 18.01 calculus and algorthim classes.

Cousera.org https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&cats=cs-programming,cs-systems

They have lot's of the courses from all sorts of different Universities including Princeton Computer Science classes. All are recorded lectures and free text. Here's an archive, everything is here including using Unix, Intro to computer science, algorithms, ect.
https://courseware.stanford.edu/pg/courses/archives

Android Bootcamp: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE08A97D36D5A255F

This series teaches you how to build Android apps. There's free courses all over youtube for Iphone, Blackberry, Android anything you want.

How to use Unix/Linux
http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?course=PracticalUnix

This is a good course to start. You can download Linux .iso for free (i recommend Debian) then use VirtualBox (free) or VMware (free) to run a virtual session to work and learn on it, where you can save snapshots so if you screw something up just restart virtual machine and try again. For advanced, very secure Unix you would want to learn OpenBSD. With it you can do secure, easy hosting and it's the easiest operating system to securely configure. Look for Absolute OpenBSD version 2 ebook that just came out it will teach you everything.

Be sure to do SICP

The old book, 'Structural and Interpretation of Computer Programs' otherwise known as SCIP is known as the best course there is in programming. Although you use Scheme, which is a very old dialect of LISP programming language, it doesn't matter because you learn fundamental concepts during the course and use it as a learning language. Since Scheme has no syntax, you just work on theory. Here are articles why you should take SICP (it's a free online course) www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/sicp.html (this was posted to 'hacker news' https://news.ycombinator.com/ which is a startup blog for developers). Functional languages are the big hyped new trend right now, most online jobs are looking for functional programmers in Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, and functional Java. This book will teach you functional programming. Then you just find any book on Erlang or Functional Java and learn their specific syntax. It takes less than a week, because you already have solid foundation from SICP course.

Here is the old SICP course:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/readings/ it comes with those old 1980s MIT lectures.


After you learn all this make yourself a github account or something, then build yourself a portfolio of work. Now you can sell yourself to jobs posted online, or offer services to make web apps/phone apps, or do whatever you want. Personally I would create a Lagos Nigeria market app, so people can shop from home and have it delivered. There also isn't a Nigerian bitcoin exchange, or litecoin exchange. This would make a lot of money, but needs pro security development or nobody will trust it.