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Investment / Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by mkwayisi: 7:04pm On Sep 01, 2014 |
mkwayisi:Is there anyone who took action in connection with the above quoted post, which was posted exactly a week ago? If someone had, the person would be laughing 32.12% louder today. Still, any takers this week? (Don't forget, however, that the day of calamity is fast approaching.) |
Investment / Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by mkwayisi: 2:08pm On Aug 25, 2014 |
SKYQUEST: Deal all, I want to make short to medium term entries into any 10 of the following picks at the entry price indicated, make una please advise me biko!:IMO, the hottest stock for short-term investment is PREMBREW. Since August 8, it has consistently risen from #0.77 to 1.65 (105.19% increase), within just 17 days!! Of course, you should know when the chips are set to come down |
Investment / Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by mkwayisi: 3:44am On Aug 22, 2014 |
soloniger: what is this NSEMPA meaning? my BnSITLInterestingly, "nsempa" literally means "good news" in the Akan language 4 Likes |
Programming / Re: 5,000 Naira For Someone Who Can Reverse This Code by mkwayisi: 4:16pm On Jan 10, 2014 |
mutago: I just develop an encryption software on my own to secure my company source code on the server. 5,000 naira to anyone who can reverse this code below. Google and take it anywhere in the world for soultion. The first 8 bytes of the cypher, that is "U2FsdGVkX1+", is "Salted__" encoded in base64. Now where is my 5,000 naira? 2 Likes |
Programming / Re: Where Does Programming Belong? by mkwayisi: 5:10pm On Dec 16, 2013 |
Programming is a combination of science and art. Generally, science is defined as the study of the physical and natural world using theoretical models and data from experiments or observation. How does that relate to programming? See, as you're learning programming, you will, by all means, write lots of buggy code before you can fully understand what a "bug" really is. In addition, you will try out several data structures, algorithms, design patterns, etc.; many of which won't work. All these things shape you intellectually to become a better programmer. There . . . experiments. According to Bill Gates (admittedly, not the best of programmers), "the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written." He admits that he was hugely influenced by the writers of the the PDP operating system because he thoroughly studied their code that he sometimes fished from garbage cans. One interesting thing he believes is that "one of the finest tests of programming ability is to hand the programmer about 30 pages of code and see how quickly he can read through and understand it." There . . . observation. However, programming hasn't been able to be broken down into components so that programs written by programmers can by themselves write other programs yet. Because of this, conventional wisdom has it that programming needs creativity and design; a kind of craft that has a master. Programs need to be designed and worked on without a conclusive end, like painting. If there is no way for a procedure to be perfected or made flawless, it therefore cannot be called science. It's probably an art. Yes, there . . . art. So programming is a combination of skill (science) and talent (art). That is my opinion; I'm entitled to it, the same way you are also to yours. 3 Likes |
Programming / Re: C/C++ Doctor: Get Help In Writing C/C++ Programs by mkwayisi: 10:13pm On Nov 17, 2013 |
veektorh:This attitude is neither fair nor fine. Please don't post puzzles just so you could test others. A simple Google search of your question yields solutions in almost every programming language. Stop judging that you may not be judged. |
Programming / Re: Hlp With Link To Download A Good C/C++ Compiler With A Size Of 30-40mb by mkwayisi: 9:51pm On Nov 17, 2013 |
olu_kenzo: GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), Cygwin, Mingw, g++ are compilers.They're not. GCC is a compiler system - Africa is not a country, is it? Cygwin is a runtime environment for POSIX apps. MinGW is a development environment of programming tools. olu_kenzo: Its easy to mix it up.Yes, just like you did olu_kenzo: Reminds me of the arguments on what roles gcc and g++ play.Reminds me of those of the differences between cc, cpp and gcc too. olu_kenzo: A lot things going on under the hood.Actually, a few. Unless you're coming from a .NET playground. olu_kenzo: GCC invokes g++ for c++ compiles and gcc for C compiles.gcc (the binary), not GCC (the system), does invocations for compilations. olu_kenzo: Face palms.Sure. olu_kenzo: Let's keep it simple guys!Certainly saves us all time. 2 Likes |
Programming / Re: Robocode by mkwayisi: 3:33pm On Jul 18, 2013 |
Interesting! I was actually looking for something like this awhile ago. But from reading the docs, it seems the game engine is not fair to "smart" robots since the winner of a battle is determined by one's score. I believe the last survivor *should* be the winner instead. Anyway, I'll try putting something together with the sole purpose of competing with yours. Just hang on |
Programming / Re: Code Challenge [1]: Pseudo-code, C#, JAVA (apply Object Oriented Principles) by mkwayisi: 6:09pm On Jun 23, 2013 |
Hey kids. What's with you and "OOP"? OK, being an old fart, I'd like to present a solution in C just in case anyone wishes to learn something from it. Here is a complete program to do the stuff:
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Programming / Re: C Code Help: How Do I Go About This? (pointer To Pointer) by mkwayisi: 2:12pm On May 21, 2013 |
I surely know this is going to be an overkill but I just want to suggest to you a cleaner and better way to implement such thing. Note that, within the "main" function, I ignored all error checks so as not to *obnubilate* the intent of the program.
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Programming / Re: What Can I Do With Command Prompt? by mkwayisi: 12:27pm On May 19, 2013 |
Powershell: I allow users to pipe objects. Bash: Huh? Powershell: I mean instead of piping literal strings to other commands, the user can pipe objects too. Bash: Are you saying the program on the receiving end can receive an actual instance of a class containing members and all... Like OOP stuff? Powershell: Yes. Bash: That's so cool!! How do I make something like that too? 2 Likes |
Programming / Re: What Can I Do With Command Prompt? by mkwayisi: 10:04pm On May 18, 2013 |
babihouse: thanks but it is not workingThere is no reason why it won't work. It SHOULD work. |
Programming / Re: What Can I Do With Command Prompt? by mkwayisi: 6:18am On May 15, 2013 |
lordZOUGA: I don't like windows Command prompt. Bash on Linux is way cooler.Hey, sup? Can you expatiate on what makes bash cooler than cmd? If you give too many reasons, I'll step in Powershell |
Programming / Re: What Can I Do With Command Prompt? by mkwayisi: 11:51pm On May 14, 2013 |
babihouse: what can i do with command prompt? how powerful is it? pls drop any material that will aid my learning.Windows command prompt is pretty powerful, and I hope this aids your "learning". Open your command prompt and execute the following command: echo start dance > dance.bat & danceThank me later. 1 Like |
Programming / Re: Which Programming Language Is Best For Building An Hospital Management Software by mkwayisi: 9:51pm On Mar 29, 2013 |
nairawall: WinDev: from my research, I discovered the WinDev development suite uses the w-lang which is a fifth generation programming language. Erhm, please let me point out that WinDev's WLanguage is actually a fourth-generation language as the programmer needs to come up with algorithms rather than constraints to accomplish a task. The WinDev team may be tickling themselves with their tool being a 5GL but my academic notes tell me otherwise. 2 Likes |
Programming / Re: Which Programming Language Is Best For Building An Hospital Management Software by mkwayisi: 6:23pm On Mar 28, 2013 |
ciphoenix: @OP if you're the coder, then work with the language you're comfortable with Guys, please stop saying that. It's like someone asking "Which mode of transportation is best when traveling from Abuja to London" and you replying "Whichever mode you are comfortable with." The guy might think: "Yay! Then I'm going to go by road on my bicycle since I feel so comfortable riding it." See? Your reply could have saved a humble life! 2 Likes |
Programming / Re: Code Breakers Challenge by mkwayisi: 10:27pm On Mar 18, 2013 |
fx0ne: The competition is now closed. Sure, but we look forward to reading the encoding algorithms used. 1 Like |
Programming / Re: Code Breakers Challenge by mkwayisi: 3:41pm On Mar 14, 2013 |
fx0ne: You didn't attempt the second challenge? Yea, I skipped it. I may attempt it later on. |
Programming / Re: Code Breakers Challenge by mkwayisi: 9:48pm On Mar 13, 2013 |
Nigeria is the greatest country in the world. Yeah. |
Programming / Re: Code Breakers Challenge by mkwayisi: 4:02pm On Mar 11, 2013 |
This is actually quite simple. You have successfully decoded the first message. Beware though, the next one would not be so simple. All the same, well done. |
Programming / Re: Python Is So Slow by mkwayisi: 2:28am On Mar 06, 2013 |
Man, you should seriously consider writing your web apps in assembler. With that, you'll never worry about speed again. 1 Like |
Programming / Re: Ethical Hackers by mkwayisi: 12:24pm On Feb 24, 2013 |
You know one thing about hacking (in the positive sense)? You make it public, so someone else can improve it. It may amaze you to discover that something that you see as a lifetime achievement is actually something that a 9-year-old has done for fun. |
Programming / Re: Php Gurus, Showcase Your Best Applications Here by mkwayisi: 10:54pm On Feb 23, 2013 |
I'm not a PHP guru (far from it; may take me a lifetime to reach that status) but here's a simple simultaneous equations solver I just wrote. The complete source code is available as well. 2 Likes |
Programming / Re: Can I Call Myself A Good Programmer If I Only Know Visual Basic by mkwayisi: 3:39pm On Nov 04, 2012 |
Joe50: of course...5 days gone and still no link to source. I give up... it ain't coming |
Programming / Re: Can I Call Myself A Good Programmer If I Only Know Visual Basic by mkwayisi: 12:49pm On Oct 29, 2012 |
@Joe50: Can you make the code publicly available? I'm particularly interested in the browser and calculator applications. |
Programming / Re: Java SE, EE & Scala Developers - Lets Connect And Share Knowledge by mkwayisi: 4:53pm On Oct 25, 2012 |
What are those tools you combine to streamline your coding process? Programmer's Notepad and Windows command scripts. How do you handle requirements/deadline? Honestly, I mostly miss them. If not, the code written getting to the deadline are all crap! Agile or Scrum? None. Probably, Waterfall. Do you write tests before coding? No. TDD? Subversion? Subversion. I think it's the most useful software ever developed. [Yes, I know there's something called git.] How do you continue to improve on your skills? Hanging around with people who are *always* better than me in everything except sucking. What book will you recommend and why? The Pragmatic Programmer - From Journeyman to Master. Because whenever I try to read it, I realize how bad my software really are. 2 Likes |
Programming / Re: [Help Request] Teach Me How To Design Databases. by mkwayisi: 4:24pm On Oct 25, 2012 |
@olyjosh: structure of tables of data grouped together called relational database No way, man. A relational database is a database organized based on the relational model. STANDARD QUERY LANGUAGE? Did you mean to say Structured Query Language? learn MYSQL or ORACLE, since Access among other are going out of use. Are you serious? Access is by far the number one *desktop* database system. For low level database go for Microsoft Access or Excel I always thought Excel is a spreadsheet application. Never knew it was a DBMS too. Call me if you need more tips-08061662025 Expect mine too 5 Likes |
Programming / Re: [Help Request] Teach Me How To Design Databases. by mkwayisi: 12:47pm On Oct 23, 2012 |
GideonG: There is nothing like database designing.No, there's something like database design. Database design is a process of building a data model that accurately represents your database. It is in your design that you specify the various entities, attributes and relationships that comprise the whole database system, i.e. if you're working with the relational data model. Read more on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_design 3 Likes |
Programming / Re: Abeg O,help Me With Dis VB.NET Code by mkwayisi: 8:16am On Oct 14, 2012 |
I'm a bit rusty with VB but from what I can see, everything works just that you're not showing the answer in textBox3. So perhaps you might want to do something like this: textBox3.Text = ans |
Programming / Re: Funny Source Code Comments by mkwayisi: 6:15pm On Oct 13, 2012 |
import com.nairaland.*; 1 Like |
Programming / Re: Funny Source Code Comments by mkwayisi: 4:10pm On Oct 13, 2012 |
webdezzi:No, I'm afraid it won't. Take a look again.₱®ÌИСΞ:it will compile as long as the capital case of "Import" is correctedImport world.smart.charming.females |
Programming / Re: Funny Source Code Comments by mkwayisi: 7:22am On Oct 13, 2012 |
₱®ÌИСΞ:I don't think that would compileImport world.smart.charming.females |
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