₦airaland Forum

Kabai:
And when they see people like Wole Soyinka, an academic icon, they will come and insult him. They will even send their [flash=200,200]http://one eyed[/flash] Yusuf to twit rubbish just to insult our father. Evil and illiteracy work hand in hand. The country will not be in peace if we don't get rid of these unfortunate fools. All they want is to carry weapons and occupy positions of authority.

Well, if you have a state where only 17 of 18,000 passed WAEC, then will they even know the significance of a Nobel prize, or how far above them Soyinka is?

I don't see a point in getting mad at them. May as well be angry at an ant for not understanding the importance of calculus.

An ant can only understand things at his level, nothing higher.

Rgp92:
World bank? France? God development, but do we really need the worldbank or france to help us?

Feels like Aregbesola is selling Osun state  

Err. . . what?

We are not in the position to be picky about how we bring about development.

Good move.

Should save in costs, hopefully.

Wow.

Congratulations to Ife. Not an alum, but plenty of family who went there.

I'm fine with English. Tis the language of business

Demdem:
I see no typo here bro. check out the first paragraph again.

Then it is a puzzling #.

17 students passing an exam, in an entire state? You should produce several times that number in a single individual school, not to talk of a local government, not to talk of a state!

It is as if you are telling me that someone can breath under water, or has gone without food for 3 years. Just seems impossible.

I'm surprised.

Before we condemn, what is the rate elsewhere?

I thought it is roughly 20%. . . like 200,000 spots in university available in the country, roughly 1 million or so taking JAMB? (Obviously me extrapolating from JAMB rates to WAEC pass rates is probably very wrong, so hopefully someone can come up with the real #s.)

I still don't think the blame should fall on the students (well, not all of it.)

Something is wrong with the entire society.

From the students, to their parents, to the teachers, to the schools, to the government of Gombe State.

17 of 18,000?

How many sat for these exams elsewhere?

What is a reasonable pass rate?

Surely there is a typo of some sort here.

aboki no get brain

coffeescript is pretty cool.

Couldn't you sprintf() to a string, then process the string only outputting 50 characters at a time?

what?

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

You mean this?

If you were only looking for the link, you could have googled it yourself.

I conquered and sold into slavery an entire people

*slow clap for Kilode's earlier post*

Risky signing a contract with the gov't of Nigeria.

Do business with the country at your own peril

wow.

ya'll heartless.

For me personally, i've always viewed stocks/bonds as a better place to store wealth. More liquid, less wahala converting it into cash, making moves with it.

Also, if a land/building is empty and you are not earning rent from it, then you aren't maximizing the value of your investment.

Higher historical population density and the accompanying land scarcity has ingrained in you a higher valuation of it?

I dunno.

Heh.

If you are fighting to escape domination from Ibadan and you do so, from your perspective it is a victory

That my ancestors made it alive and weren't killed/enslaved = win to me

The default version of Ruby on my computer is actually JRuby (Ruby for the JVM.)

You can write Ruby scripts than can be compiled to jar files. This can come in really, really damn handy. . . write everything in an easy language like Ruby, then find the bottlenecks in your code and re-implement those in Java.

If you just want to do web development stuff and at the same time use a good language/toolchain, I'd suggest Ruby on Rails.

This in particular is really useful: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

Doesn't teach your Ruby though. Just teaches you Rails (they are different things.)

If you want to learn Ruby syntax, use this: http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

Fayimora, I don't think a 20% or 30% speed difference in Ruby vs. say other languages is a huge deal. The bottleneck these days is man-hours, not really computation. You can always just throw more computers at the problem, then worry about optimizing later.

I doubt Twitter would have gone anywhere if they'd implemented in an annoying language like Java from scratch.

No, they built their systems first in Ruby, then later started moving critical, performance-sensitive components over to Scala (a JVM language.)

African Americans have a good chunk of white, native american and other stuff in 'em too.

Culturally have a very tenuous at best connection to the continent of Africa too, imo.

I don't think this is unreasonable

This is a great thread.

Sauron, I think you are overrated Ekiti's military prowess.

If it had been one vs one or even just Ijesha+Ekiti versus Ibadan, we would have lost.

Let us not confuse good luck and fortunate circumstances for awesomeness or extra-ordinary fighting ability.

Man I'm surprised you are getting so passionate about something from ~120 years ago

Rest in peace.

Wow. Powerful words.

jmaine:
Haaaaaaa !https://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff390/ShaneDawg021/th_andremiller.png

lol. Didn't know you were a hoops fan

What is it about?

fellis:
Why do people cry while watching movies?
It's just actors acting out a script.

Na wa o

You should go visit the Wizard of Oz and ask him to give you a heart

To quote another NLer, "aboki no get brain."

PapaBrowne:
Hehe!! You guys are just funny!! I just tested a principle in cultural anthropology and you are already giving in.
Its good to be proud of your heritage. I have ignored mine for far too long, I should start and take it to another level.

My belief about ethnicity: It is largely a figment of our imagination as the only concrete factor proving our ethnicity is the word from our parents telling us we are this tribe or that tribe. If a Yoruba man tells his kids that they are Ibo, they would live their lives defending the IBO! Ethnicity is just that- Word from our parents defining our identity. Words that in themselves could be totally wrong.

hehe

This is a dodge that would make even an Olympic gymnast proud

And why don't you think it would have happened? Why were the fears of the Eastern minorities, which they voiced to the authors of the Willinks report, unreasonable?

With that said, we can close this particular chapter.

Continue discussing amongst yourself these very important issues of economic colonization of the COR region of the East that PhysicsQED raised.

Oh, and of course the words of the Oba of Benin.

Carry on.