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THE MILAN OPTION:
2 men on messi the whole time.
Close down the center of the pitch. No movement through the center.
Play counter-attacking football but have 7-8 men behind the ball at all time.
Hit Barca with long balls to tall players with effective ball control skills.

THE ATLETICO BILBAO OPTION:
Press Barca Everywhere.
Play for 90 mins.
Practice set pieces.
Keep the ball in the barca half.

Seun is an avowed fan of database indexing. Nairalist, his first public Python app used database indexing extensively and am sure the lessons from that were transferred back to Nairaland. Besides, there might be some kind of primitive (as in first draft. not a competence assessment) cacheing behind the scenes.

If he's curious enough.

[quote author=~Bluetooth]They were in each other. . . . . as in ?[/quote]op needs to explain this.

Like everything else in life and business, its better to work from the answer back to the question. What do we need? someone who can develop a web application or a ninja with adhd+ ability to solve the most difficult algorithmic issues you have ever conceived. If you want algorithm ninjas, use puzzles. If you want developers either read their code or request sample code.

JoelOnSoftware has some good tips on writing functional specs ----> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html . Enjoy

Nigerians HATE CHANGE.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with this suggestion. In fact, it makes perfect sense.

JAMB and admission schedules are two very different entities. They are mutually exclusive.


The results of the last UTME were released less than a month after the exam. If they can achieve that, I see no reason why it cant be done 4 times a year.

SAT-2 exam ( On which UTME/JAMB is loosely modelled) occurs at more than 2 times a year. If you can improve your competence under one year, I see no reason why the system should keep you at home for another year.

Its left to schools to decide who to accept.

If I had my way, UTME would move to computerised testing and testing would be done at few but highly equipped regional centers many times a year. You can fail and come back again if you want and besides, you get your results on the spot. No time wasting.

timbs001: @A-Zed and Hello1212, noted. We will kick off this week. Keep checking the thread for updates. Happy PHPing

Good stuff timbs001 and welcome. If this gets good enough, we might sticky it. All the best.

Seun: Memory is a more likely bottleneck than the CPU, so storing the data in a more bulky format (as an image) will probably slow things down because 1.5 million images would require more RAM than the data used to construct the images. Simple applications like JAMB result checking (and Nairalist) don't require advanced optimizations. Just design your DB and queries carefully such that each page requires very few queries, all of which are perfectly indexed, and your performance would be fantastic.

I see. If am getting you right, there's more to gain from MySQL indexing than incurring extra memory burdens due to externally requesting the images.

My earlier assumption though was that all you had to store was the URL which could be given to the user as a static AWS url effectively incurring no cost from your own server with that borne by the client's machine.


thanks though. Good stuff.

I might come back to Flesh this out.

Admin:
------>expenses
------>payroll.
------>employee biodata
------>student data
---------->biodata
---------->academic
---------->financial
---------->disciplinary

Parents:
---->contact student's class teacher.
---->check student financial history.
---->get student's attendance records
-------->get attendance print out
-------->register for SMS notification of absence
---->get students academic records
-------->sign up for email notification of academic records.
---->read student's disciplinary records
---->lay complaint.

Teachers:
---->update student attendance records
---->update students academic records
---->update students disciplinary records
---->check inbox
Students:
----> check/print out timetables.
----> get school news.
----> print out transcripts
----> register for school activities
----> send/recieve messages.


You also have a few other questions to answer.

Are students going to have access to those functions above or its strictly for admin?
what platform are you going to use to deploy it? Apache or IIS?
what language? PHP or ASP.Net or .....?

Ideas above are mostly about functionality. Other things might be included like a school blog, newsletter etc. Will be back if any other ideas pop up. Be safe man.

Hypothetical question: What if you only do the retrieving of data once and convert the result into a picture that you cache (at data entry) on your server or an Amazon Web Service bucket?

When the JAMB applicant comes, we simply use the USER ID or unique user hash to retrieve the appropriate file from Amazon. No hits on our db besides the login sequence and all the stress goes to the image server (wherever it might be).

Besides, most people only check their result 1-3 times( a score of 60 in JAMB does not breed return visits).

As for login, if you supply JAMB with a particular OpenID compliant email address, we can simply handover login authentication to Yahoo or Google and only use the verified user email to generate a hash for retrieving your image from AWS. If you are not registered with us, then NO hash and NO hash means NO result. (Side effect being that a hacked yahoo account means NO JAMB result :grin: )

You have just started your views clearly. I agree with certain things.

Righteousness will exalt a nation.

No nation is chosen but there are chosen people in every nation.

As you said, africans must solve their own problems

Finally, my perception of development is one where people live to the utmost potential aided by a favorable environment. Everyone needs transport but not everyone needs cars. Same for every other thing you can think of.

Let's end the conversation there.

It is well with you.

@LOJ seriously what the heck are you saying? THEY ARE IN THEIR SALVATION? Seriously whats the meaning of that sentence?

If you mean they are in their season, then that might make a little sense.

But I refuse to believe that Biblically we are doomed. Botswana and SA and Ghana are as black as we are and they are also bonafide Sons of Cush AND THEY ARE PROGRESSING.

Keep your prophecy crap where it belongs --->In the closet.

No country progresses if it doesnt take responsibility for its actions/history.

Blaming it on prophecy is a cop-out. An excuse. A poor and intellectually weak excuse.

LoJ: Hello Kodewrita!



It is easier to ask question and critize. “Criticism is easy, art is difficult.” said the french comedian Philippe Destouches. I'll nevertheless take time to provide a debut of answer in parable to your first question. I'll not go deeply into that now.

Karl Marx has understood the fundemental Law of human evolution. Man evoluates on the basis of Struggle, opposition. In the world there's a war between justice and iniquity, righteousness and sin, love and hatred, Abel and Cain. It is that battle that determines the evolution of the world.

Each time there's a clash, it shapes the world in a new way. We're at the end of the second phase and the beginning of the third phase: The werstern world and the Eastern World are going to have a new clash. From that clash, there will be a new modelling of the world.

That's why GOD is now prophetically speaking to Africa, so that African will wake up. Understand their destiny, the will of GOD for them and... heal the world.

Lion-EL of JESUS

you did not answer the question. How come those ungodly countries are now increasingly the centre of world power while the world's most religious region( africa-my assumption) is the POOREST.

You prattle on and on about being the chosen people and close your eyes to the evils right before you. Its not about some destiny. Its about past and present actions. Believing in a manifest destiny while ignoring the real problems to be solved/necessary actions (from personal experience) is the surest way to fail.

Dont live by prophecy.

Live by faith.


God has promised success for the wise and diligent(wherever they may be - china, Índia or even russia) and penury as the lot of the fool( wherever they may be and however temporarily rich they may seem e.g Nigeria).

LoJ: Hello Everyone!

@ Buzugee and all

I registered in this forum because I was interested in your posts. I'm not a Nigerian, but I'm always willing to learn and understands the ways of GOD.

Nevertheless, as long as we are going to oppose and divide humanity into races, we're going to fail in accomplishing GOD's purposes for humanity. It is true that in a sense GOD is racist. GOD deals with lineage. However, humanity is one and GOD's master piece. GOD uses each ethnic group for a different purpose, but all of them (or at least, those that are faithful to GOD in each of them) are called to contribute in the establishment of the Kingdom of GOD.

"For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him"


GOD did not meant to place one race above the other. This is what the jews thought in their religious way of thinking, but GOD via Peter showed them the folly and the insanity of such a thinking:

"Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. " Acts 10:34-35

Therefore, we must ask the right questions, search from the bible to get the right answers and obey them. The first question is WHY did GOD created races

In the purposes of GOD, each of the major ethnic group has a role to play for the Kingdom of GOD to be established ON EARTH.

Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” - Marc 9:5

Each of the tent represents a destiny of one of the child of Noah: Sem, Japhet and Cham. Noah prophetically announced the role of Sem and Japhet. He kept silent about Cham. Why? We'll discuss that later.

My point here is this: GOD has not excluded any race. They are all the work of his hands. all things were created BY him and FOR him (Colossians 1:16). However, GOD has divided time into three periods: Each period is connected to one of the Sons of Noah for the vision of GOD revealed by GOD to Noah to be accomplished, the Kingdom being established on earth.

I'll continue later on.

Lion-EL of JESUS

Crap

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Governments simply need to mandate the use of barbed wire fencing in farms.

America's 'Fulani Problem' (Cowboys) and Argentina's 'Fulani Problem' (Gauchos) were both solved by fencing off large swathes of land to cut off migration paths and force them to settle. Yes they can use main roads for migration but cattle can be prevented from eating your tubers. They'll be forced to comply.


the other solution is for Nigerian states in the south to actually create special compensation laws to protect farmers from herders. Herders should lose proportionate portion of their herds when they eat people's crops. 1 yam = 1 head of cattle. Simple.

laykhorn: Vision what! Did I hear you say Vision 2010. mehn! You gotta be kidding. Go have a look at the that list. Moreso, have a look at the question, it doesn't goes with your answer bruh!

No be your government lie give us.

Vision 2010 na say Nigeria go turn jand and americans/british go dey theif visa come here. No be so.

Fee Dee Fee don ashieve be that naa

{enough of the warri pidgin jare. fingers scratching}

@Poster

How do you explain the growth of China and India according to this theory?


How do you explain the sheer wealth of largely atheistic Norway & Sweden?

How do you explain the wealth and technological advancement of Japan which is largely non-Christian?

How do you explain booming Angola with its sit-tight ruler (Dos Santos) who cant even pass for a slightly benevolent dictator?

How do you explain Libya under cruel tyrant Ghadaffi?

How do you explain Soviet Russia's massive technological advancements under atheistic governments?

How do you explain 1980s Iraq under Saddam?

or early 1930s Germany under Hitler?

haha Vision 2010 don dey happen be that naaa.

Please tell them to go back and wait for Nigerian DV Visa Lottery. Maybe favour will shine on them.

Taraba to Cross River. That na long journey na. **or my naija geography is wack, covers face**

Stackoverflow.com is a good place to visit but don't expect to be spoon fed.

If you can code java search for the sphinx project and also FreeTTS.

Long and short of it is that Google is your friend

Probably the solution is to give each user the ability to selectively ignore a particular member across the entire forum. They have such power because they have an audience. Simple.

Though my gut says this is definitely an assignment, I'll give it a try.

<?php
$totsum=0;

for($i=0;$i<1000;$i++){
if( ( ( $i%3 ) ==0 ) || ( ( $i%5 )==0 ) ) $totsum+=$i;
}

echo $totsum;

?>

updated with a poll to get your opinions.

are you returning any time soon?

Where will I put the other visionaries? ------------> In their rightful places. He created the first truly crossplatform environment and broke the IBM monopoly by ensuring programs written for his OS on IBM machines could run on DEC and other machines. You could simply learn to code for windows and not worry about all the hundred devices out there. That Created the industry.

On the issue of training people to ensure survival of COBOL and FORTRAN, Do you think it is the duty of Nigerian universities to ensure obsolete languages survive or to train their students to master cutting edge technology? Am surprised at that particular argument. Training and teaching must reflect current societal needs and the society needs Java, PHP,Python, PERL and C coders more than it needs FORTRAN. Hence the need for us to move ALONG.

If you also read my post slower, you would have noticed the List Processing languages (1. LiSP<-----the First and Number 1 List processing language. In fact the LiSP name was formed from the words LISt and Processing. 2. Scheme is a simpler Lisp Derivative and also a list processing language.)

Python possesses functional programming features and can just as well be used to teach functional programming.



On the subject of aptitude, you cant expect the average social science student to make the investment of time necessary to learn such a cumbersome language as FORTRAN. Its a waste of their time. Besides the arrogance of the lecturers who dont expect them to master the languages ensures they dont learn it.

Give them a chance to write free-flowing Python code. Show them how it can be relevant to their profession or better still tailor your teaching to their own needs and see them blossom.

Programming is not restricted to certain people with a certain braintype or brainpower. Anybody capable of concentrating and thinking logically (and thats anyone) can program.

Totally agree.

https://www.nairaland.com/889001/way-forward-field-computer-science

As for the topic subject, i have a few ideas.

Lets use the ESSA tool to come up with suggestions. I'll start but you can also add more.

Eliminate: all old content from our curriculum. we have moved beyond the age of FORTRAN and COBOL. If needed specialists can go and learn such old languages.

Simplify: I know the general assumption is that knowing many languages makes you a guru but I would advise that schools limit programming languages to just three: A scripting/educational language( Python/Scheme/Lisp), a systems programming language(C) and a RAD language(Java/VB). The RAD can be introduced late in the training period to enable them use it for final year projects but all computation and mathematical work should make use of either the prescribed educational one or the systems one. In essence Python or C.

Standardize: {I'll come back with things we should standardize}

Automate: {And I'll Also be back with things we might automate}

Its always good to make comments with some knowledge backing it.

That linus torvalds even has a computer to play with is a result of years of work by people like Bill Gates and in spite of all the open source propaganda, Microsoft Windows is still the worlds most used operating system.

Bill gates if you do not know:
was and still is a super coder.
Apple may not like to admit it but he actually contributed some of the code in the first Mac OS.
He single-handedly ported applications to many different hardware platforms e.g the Altair which had no compilers but Bill ported BASIC to it to enable people write code.



hate him or love him. His claim to fame is that HE CREATED THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY ITSELF.

If Lamido Sanusi succeeds in pushing the cashless solution through, it might actually kill off more corruption than you can imagine. Cash is mostly untraceable and can be requested and passed around very easily but a cashless economy will place pressure on the many different low-level crooks in this country.

Sanitizing low-level crookery is a necessary first step along that line.