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chukwuebuka65:
Abi the guy went on sabbatical? Or has he left nairaland for us being that this forum is not for the emotional weak? Fourpockets!, where goeth thee?

rvp2018:
Nigeria is major salt importer - Dangote probably repackage it - into small bags. I think it mostly from South Africa and Namibia. Look like mostly Brazil.

This is 2013.

There is almost no salt production in
the entire Central and West African region
except for Ghana and Senegal. These two
countries meet the requirements of most of
the region. Countries like Nigeria prefer to
import their requirement of table salt from
outside the region – principally Namibia and
South Africa but also from Australia, India
and Brazil. South Africa, Namibia (Photo 1)
and Botswana are the main sources of salt
in southern Africa. T

rvp2018:
Ghana is better country than Nigeria - because of it's liberal economy.
The problem is macro-economic - their gov just misbehave and have never heard of prudent economic management.
I guess it problem with democracy - where gov overpromises and has to deliver by borrowing aggressively.
I doubt you produce salt; from my reading; Ghana and Senegal; I think you import salt from all over - mostly South Africa & Namibia.
Salt producers in Africa are mainly South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Ghana and Senegal

rvp2018:
Why would that be a problem?

rvp2018:
If they relax immigration laws; they should be fine; but they are racist.

rvp2018:
There is nothing one can learn from Nigeria.
We are going the opposite way.
We are allowing duty free entry of goods from East Africa Goods, COMESA and AFCTA.
That basically means Kenya companies have to be competitive at very least regionally.
Let them close shops, find something we can be competitive in, and the consumer is the king.
The results is obvious - Kenya companies having been exposed to very thorough competition at home - have expanded.
They are regionally the kings - of industry - in about 10 countries.
The industries that are protected are very very few - for specific period - because we expect we can and should compete with China or India.
This why Kenya is making huge strides forward despite having no oil or large arable land.
In the meantime Nigeria is world poverty capital, infrastructure is completely broken, gov cannot get taxes, social investment is zero (out of school kids staggering), insecurity & kidnapping the order of the day.
This all because the economy is failing the majority
And working for a few Northern Elite like Dangote.
When it come to SMES - how are they going to be profitable - when access to credit is at 30% per annum at minimum, when cost of doing business is horrendous (they have to run a generator) & when economy is not free (they cannot go to Benin or Ghana or China to sources for cheapest stuff because they cant get dollars at same rate as Dangote or neither are they allowed).

The results of Nigeria messed up economics - despite OIL - POVERTY - and few DANGOTES

rvp2018:
Almost zero drop since 1950 it was 6.5 to now 5.5. Kenya has dropped from high of 8 to now close to 3.

Devdevdev:
I've been going through a lot of threads on this section to gain more insight on my chosen career. It's better to learn from the experiences of otherz.

Few minutes ago, I stumbled on a thread created by TheManofTheYear detailing how he worked hard to get a job as a front end developer as well as his technical writing gigs he got. This is the thread: https://www.nairaland.com/7100014/job-hunting-experiences-junior-developer

One thing that struck me was the writing style. It was too elaborate and very detailed. Almost like he sat down to carefully think about every single detail, as opposed to someone who was just writing his recent experiences. It struck me as fake. As a fiction writer in my spare time, this was very evident to me.

Well, as with most frauds, he made a mistake which to be honest I was surprised he didn't detect. He commented on his TheManofTheYear thread with his AlchemyofCodes account and posted as if he was writing on the thread he created with his AlchemyofCodes account. Obviously he forgot he was posting on his other thread and not on the new one.

Bottom line: Everything written by TheManofTheYear and AlchemyofCodes account are all made up. It's a troll behind both accounts. Probably an ASUU strike student who wanted to test his fictional writing skills and deceive everyone on Nairaland, well except me.

This adds up if you consider both usernames are written the same way and that both also write the same fuçking way; detailing cock and bull stories about their lives as if they were writing a diary. This is even the deadest give away.

Also TheManofTheYear was careful not to reveal his identity, even when people were pleading to chat with him offline. He also never posted a link to his GitHub or any of his projects that could reveal his identity

ProfAyomi:
I made an update yesterday, a long one but naira land wiped it off .

So I have been working mostly on javascript. W3s is really under rated, especially their videos, that's what I have been using as my video resource after I finished Mosh's introduction to Javascript.

Basically, I'm more of a book person. I read pdf more than I use videos. So I focused on reading 20 pages each of eloquent JavaScript and Head first Javascript.

What I do is to watch at least an hour of video daily, 20 pages each of pdfs and then write codes for minimum of 3 hours daily. Sometimes I feel like a zombie just going through the rounds but consistency and discipline and the fact that I signed a contract already is keeping me going.

What I have notice is that, programming takes time, you can't force the process, sometimes I feel very dumb especially when learning some concepts, but when I wake or maybe while doing some task unrelated to coding, I get this flash bulb moments when the pieces starts to fall in line. My mind is so consumed with programming that I try to mentally replay the tutorial I watched the previous night in my head. So far, it's been working.

Must say this, I don't know anything, I'm not special, I'm just lucky, lucky to have a lot of gurus around me, I'm always the dumbest in most groups I'm in. When the technical margins and arguments on what the shortest possible runtime should be, I just stand aside and soak it all in, sometimes, I chip in my little baby ideas and they all tend to notice and want to help out. Yesterday, I got 2 guys, one from Cameroon, the other from South Africa each doing a one hour zoom meet with me to explain some concept.

I have realised this in programming, you can the the most senior and still feel like a noob sometimes. And I have gotten very good at googling, just that I type out my answer instead of just pasting it.

Funny thing is that I hate front end with passion, and having to learn CSS isn't so romantic, just wish I can float through and still known enough to google my way out of problems. Also did something over my head this week, the company I work for review my CV and out of curiosity, I applied for 2 jobs, one as an intern, the other as a junior dev.

I got to the interview stage but the i was surprised that a company will ask DSA questions from an intern, in was able to solve the first one, something about using recursion to solve a Fibonacci concept, I can't even remember again. But I know I but I remember that during one of our numerous harkerrank exercises on the group I had seen something like that before. I did it C language, instill don't know what it means at all. I have a photographic memory and was able to type it out line by line, when asked to explain why I did that, I became dumb, the interviewer was like, "calm forn, i know you are under pressure, you can try to explain it later, but can you refactor it?"

In my head I was like refactor what? What I don't even know what it means. Anyways, I was given another DSA question about blackjack, I told them, I don't know what blackjack is nor how to play it because I'm not a gambler. They said no problem, and one of them used 10 minutes to explain what it means and how its played. The more he talked the more confused I became.

He then afterwards repeated the question, at this point I couldn't hear anything again, my head was spinning and I couldn't think anymore. I started questioning my sanity. Then they said, lets just go back to some regular coding challenge. They asked me what complex coding challenge I have done. I said I have built my own printf function in C and was working on building my own shell. Mind you, this was a project in Alx. I wont say I understand it very well but I at least could replicate it without using the standard library.

After an hour plus of sweating. He said, what I just did was supposed to be done in more than one hour. I told them I was learning in a coding school, at this point he asked " how long have you been doing this for? And be honest." I told them 2 months, give or take. Then one of them replied, whats your IQ, me that didn't even know just said 180. I could swear I heard them all gasp. In my mind I was like, have I said something wrong. They were like ok. Can we get back to you later. We will be in touch.

I couldn't even think much about it. I was having another interview the next day and also a presentation at work new project so I just started preparing for it. That night, I went check what IQ of 180 means and even me gasp, there is no way I am a genius. Simple maths can make me disorganized sometimes sef. The second interview was a disaster but they said they would get back to me.

Meanwhile, I had to go back and check that blackjack stuff again, I wrote a pseudo code and algorithm for it. Will share when I have the time again.

Now my lesson from this week, just 2 months in and I think I am moving too fast, programming is a journey,it's a process that shouldn't be rushed, it's better to understand the concept rather than rote memorization.

2. Don't go near DSA unless you have a good working knowledge of low level language or python or Javascript or Java. You won't understand much,

3. Having a high IQ is the biggest cheat in programming. I don't have it ooooo

4. Make an effort to meet those ahead of you and ask questions, make new connections and give value too. I was able to teach 2 people something I have learnt before and I love the joy I got from it. I also understood the concept more.

5. Don't learn how to code. Learn how the mind of a programmer works. And codingnwill be like a simple puzzle instead of an impossible mission of cramming syntax and keywords.

6. Build projects with the little knowledge you know, when you run into problems , use google and continue, if you don't understand ask those ahead of you.


## the first company sent a reply, they would do another video session with me. I don't know what it is about. But for now, I wont apply for jobs anymore and focus more on learning. The company training me won't even allow me leave until I have worked for them for 6 months.

GREATIGBOMAN:
U struggling to pull out $8 from payoneer?



Why should anyone take your opinion in such matters seriously?

Sleekcode:
Tackled all these with nothing to show for it.


U must have performed poorly in them and your numerous F9s was what made your school chase you away.

chukwuebuka65:
Greatigboman , food is ready.

The problem is not learning c++. I think its a question of getting c++ jobs here in nigeria. I believe the language i mainly used for building desktop apps like ms word , fl studio( for making music) , desktop browsers, games etc. these softwares require a lot of resources and time ( years ) to build and it appears that not many Nigerian company are into it. And for those of us that will learn it , we will probably end up working for foreign companies like Microsoft and then probably relocate. But I believe there are nigeria developers working with c++.

rockfortdigital:
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TookDownYourMum:
Eko Atlantic from the concept art looks like some generic city with no soul as if a Nigerian went to London to hire some shitty, third-rate western architect. Feast your eyes on real beauty, the Egyptian new capital perfectly represents their ancient culture. No other African city can even come close to matching its beauty.

Such artistic design right down to the last detail.

Alphabyte:
Android was built with Linux kernel in C and the system apps java or Kotlin was used.





Window kernel was written in C while the system apps is in C#and C++


computers that have a microcontroller/microprocessor inside that is running a program, also called firmware, on embedded devices.

tensazangetsu20:
Me insecure ke. Me with regards to software I believe I can survive anywhere. When I was freelancing on upwork I bravely took on php and razor c# projects and was able to do them. I know that stuffs like embedded is much more difficult and operating systems but the people doing it don't have two heads and the companies that do such stuff will give you 3 to 6 months to learn them to be productive so I can definitely learn them to work if it ever comes to that but the op is so degenerative as if Nigerians choose easier things. Don't people know the kind of shithole country this is.

tensazangetsu20:
I am saying if you are learning in your house learning c++ everyday you aren't better than someone who is already working as a JavaScript developer. Besides how many c++ developers write out their own operating systems as projects. Do you know how many devs it takes to build an operating system. Why do you think Microsoft and apple have over hundred thousand devs. If you are at home learning everyday without applying it. It's a waste. No company in this world will employ someone who has sat down at home just learning c++ everyday over people with work experience.

tensazangetsu20:
These things aren't as complex as you think they are. The only reason we aren't pursuing them is lack of opportunity. If you get an entry level job in an embedded system company that writes c++ and your previous background was JavaScript or php you think you won't cope. We do frontend backend and web in Nigeria cause that's what we can use to get jobs easily and not because they are easy or hard. There's some really complex frontend and backend systems out there. There's also really complex mobile applications. Opportunity to apply the knowledge and get better is the Koko. Programming Is more of application than memorisation. If you spend 10 years learning c++ and you aren't using it in a professional environment you really aren't better than someone who uses JavaScript or php daily in a professional setting