Javanian:

Learn to keep your mouth shut on things you know nothing of.

Nice one... Was just about to take the guy on!

sarutobi: What i suggest we do is FAKE IT

I do this most times at work. When we are given tasks i usually will complete mine quickly, but will still be staring at my system and scratching my head. Pretending to be confused is rewarding . Then i will have scrabble or chess in a mini window somewhere.

Seriously though, it is difficult for pple to measure these things.

Hahaha!!!
Yes Boss!
I'm guilty of this too, I even go as far as watching a movie in a very small VLC window at a corner!

When people are doing a physical task, it’s easy to assess how hard they are working. You can see the physical movement, the sweat. You also see the result of their work: the brick wall rising, the hole in the ground getting bigger. Recognizing and rewarding hard work is a pretty fundamental human instinct, it is one of the reasons we find endurance sports so fascinating. This instinctive appreciation of physical hard work is a problem when it comes to managing creative-technical employees. Effective knowledge workers often don’t look like they are working very hard.

Back in 2004, I was a junior developer working in a large team on a cable TV company’s billing and provisioning system. Like all large systems it was made up of a number of relatively independent components, with different individuals or small teams looking after them. The analogue TV and digital TV provisioning systems were almost entirely separate, with a different team looking after each.

The analogue TV team had decided to base their system around an early version of Microsoft Biztalk. There were four of our guys and a team from Microsoft developing it and running it in production. They all appeared to work really hard. They would often be seen working into the night and at weekends. Everyone would drop what they were doing to help with production issues, often crowding around a single guy at a desk, offering suggestions about what could be wrong, or how to fix something. There was constant activity, and anyone could see, just by looking that, not only did everyone pull together as a team, but they were all working really really hard.

The digital TV provisioning team was very different. The code had been mostly written by a single guy, let’s call him Dave. I was a junior maintenance developer on the team. Initially I had a great deal of trouble understanding the code. There wasn’t one long procedure somewhere where all the stuff happened, instead there were lots of small classes and methods with just a few lines of code. Several of my colleagues complained that Dave made things overcomplicated. But Dave took me under his wing and suggested that I read a few books on object oriented programming. He taught me about design patterns, the SOLID principles, and unit testing. Soon the code started to make sense, and the more I worked on it the more I came to appreciated its elegant design. It didn’t go wrong in production, just hummed away doing its job. It was relatively easy to make changes to the code too, so implementing new features was often quite painless. The unit tests meant that few bugs made it into production.

The result of all this was that it didn’t look like we were working very hard at all. I went home at 5.30pm, I never worked weekends, we didn’t spend hours crowded around each other’s desks throwing out guesses about what could be wrong with some failing production system. From the outside it must have looked like we’d been given a far easier task than the analogue TV guys. In truth, the requirements were very similar, we just had better designed and implemented software, and better supporting infrastructure, especially the unit tests.

Management announced that they were going to give out pay rises based on performance. When it was my turn to talk to the boss, he explained that it was only fair that the pay increases went to the people who worked really hard, and that our team just didn’t seem to care so much about the company, not compared to the heroes who gave up their evenings and weekends.

The cable company was a rare laboratory, you could observe a direct comparison between the effects of good and bad software design and team behaviour. Most organisations don’t provide such a comparison. It’s very hard to tell if that guy sweating away, working late nights and weekends, constantly fire-fighting, is showing great commitment to making a really really complex system work, or is just failing. Unless you can afford to have two or more competing teams solving the same problem, and c’mon, who would do that, you will never know. Conversely, what about the guy sitting in the corner who works 9 to 5, and seems to spend a lot of time reading the internet? Is he just very proficient at writing stable reliable code, or is his job just easier than everyone else’s? To the casual observer, the first chap is working really hard, the second one isn’t. Hard work is good, laziness is bad, surely?

I would submit that the appearance of hard work is often an indication of failure. Software development often isn’t done well in a pressurised, interrupt driven, environment. It’s often not a good idea to work long hours. Sometimes the best way of solving a difficult problem is to stop thinking about it, go for a walk, or even better, get a good night’s sleep and let your subconscious solve it. One of my favourite books is A Mathematician’s Apology by G. H. Hardy, one of the leading British mathematicians of the 20th century. In it he describes his daily routine: four hours work in the morning followed by an afternoon of watching cricket. He says that it’s pointless and unproductive to do hard mental work for more than four hours a day.

To managers I would say, judge people by results, by working software, not by how hard they appear to be working. Counter intuitively, it may be better not to sit with your developers, you may get a better idea of their output unaffected by conventional/intuitive indicators. Remote working is especially beneficial; you will have to measure your employees by their output, rather than the lazier option of watching them sitting at their desks 8 hours a day thumping away at an IDE, or ‘helpfully’ crowding around each other’s desks offering ‘useful’ suggestions.

Source: http://java.dzone.com/articles/are-your-programmers-working

hammedkola:

Yes there is a law, and to that of FL & FO, rumour had it that the conversation was recorded by Femi

What are the laws and where are they articulated?

Soooo, I've had this question in my head for a while now and watching a TED talk on "The dark side of data" just pushed me to ask this question.
In Europe for instance, a bill was signed that allowed Telecom providers store everything about the end users (phone calls, your location... everything) for 6 - 24 months. Attempts have failed in America to pass data retention laws.

What about Nigeria? Are there any laws? or can ISPs and Telecom companies do as they like?
For example the case of Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola, where did the recorded conversation come from?

jboy01: Pls am using eclipse in coding a small application that involve connection to database, pls how will I instal jdbc mysql driver on my eclipse?

Hiya!
The way you use MySQL with Java is slightly different from VB.NET. You don't perform installation of drivers like you do in VB.NET (e.g. MySQL-Connector-NET).
In Java you use the MySQL-Connector-Java.jar file as an API in your project (so you physically have to copy this file to your "lib" folder in your project folder).
Attached is an image of a Java class showing how you use the library to connect to your DB and run queries after you've successfully added the MySQL jar file to your classpath.

I think the first question to ask is are you coding for Java Web or Desktop?

Are you using VB6 or any of the recent versions?

gozmos: Computer Science is the Best joor

GBAM!!!
Case closed!!!

Dude!
You're good to go!
I started doing interstate about 4 months after I got my car. One time I drove for 6 hours straight alone in the car.
My advice is to get someone who can drive, to sit in front with you for assistance in case you get too tired.
But general advice, you have to handle it with confidence, use your horn a lot around trucks and take it slowly. Make sure your friends have their eyes on the road with you so they don't disturb you.
Safe trip!

dsypha:



wat hapened to java.util.random; pls talk somtin else, if dats wat ur own csc means, den u are nt serious! and if u wnt me to write d full program. I surely will.

Note: I dnt study Csc.

Haha!
No be person write the algorithm wey dey the back
For example in VB.NET you can predict the random figures that you'll get after a while. So that leads to the question, 'How random is random'
There was a crew in Nigeria that got paid in a mega way becos the wrote and algorithm that would generate millions of 13 digit PINs without repeating a number! Now thats a feat! If it was by using java.util.random to concatenate different different digits then there would be no big deal in doing that.

ikp4succes:

Can You tell what programming is more about i want to hear your thoughts. Why will i give u a product that hangs after three moves won't i test it first before i give to use or sell. Why do i need to write a master scholarship exam to proof myself. What of if i have the money to pay for it. I didn't say am an expert but for now am following the right track in a years time i be a graduate in Computer science in the States.

BTW download my android app and give me back your review,

http://wl.filegenie.com/~ikp4success/Scrabble%20Cheat.apk

I think I stated very well my thoughts on programming when I talked about effective and efficient codes.
As a Comp. Sci. student, I will be extremely disappoined if you tell me any tom, dick and harry coder will write me a chess algorithm that would always win or end in a stale mate as worse case senario. The guy would not know the slightest thing about sample space. If I tell him about alpha-beta pruning he would be looking like dodoyo!
And thats still on algorithm level, coding has not been talked about yet.
Can you write me a method that gives random integers without using the Math.Rand() method in Java?
These are the lines of thought that Comp. Sci. exposes you to.

ikp4succes:

this guy men do you know how many programmers Google alone have. In some companies there will be a big screen where like one or two person will be watching the screen as someone programs, just to check for flaws and errors in the code. I can do chess game and Google search its just a matter of time and resources if u want those two i will demand like 20,000 dollars every three months. as for Robotic Arm, that's the work between a mechanical engineer, robotic engineer and a computer programmer, he will be on the software side, like write a program to control the robot. i.e after getting the algorithms from the engineers.
You not a computer science student or an i.t career person please respect field.

SimonAndal:
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Oh, good for you! Now create a chess game for me, or program a robotic arm to pick up objects.

Or wait, tell me about the SHA-1 encryption protocol, its flaws and how you can fix them.

Or create Google Search.

Or tell me this: how are cookies passed in the HTTP protocol?

@SimonAndal: I feel you jare...!
All these guys coming here to spew trash!
@ikp4succes: I bet if you manage to create a picture board that re-positions pieces and call it chess it'll hang after I make 3 moves!
All these ignorant guys need to understand that Computer Science is much more than coding!, Software Development is much more than Programming (Implementation) and Programming is much more than Syntaxes.
@ikp4succes and all the other ignorant people here, you guys should go and write a master's scholarship exam for Comp. Sci. grads and then come back and tell me they spent 4-5 years doing nothing relevant. Even I that studied a course closely related to Comp. Sci. have my limits in exams like that!

@OP: Frankly am tired of people asking these sort of questions here!
I studied a course in the same department with Computer Sci. and even with us doing some joint courses like (Operating Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and the likes..) I can tell you for a fact that there's a HUGE difference.
Do you think proper global companies like Google and the likes employ code writers, I worked in a Nigerian company that employs some people just to TEST applications written by developers. From a one on one convo with a Google developer in UK, I can tell you that coding is the least of their concerns during interviews, any person can write effective but inefficient lines of code that would work for a while and then crash your server!
Programming is just one of the 8 - 12 courses you do per semester, so do you think they are playing in all those other courses
Computer Sci. has a serious theoritical foundation that's essential if you really want to tour that line.
Guy!!! your uncle is not qualified to give your that advice. Even I was given the same advice when I wanted to get into uni, but I'm done now and have no regrets at all!!!

O boi!

adebayosun02: Good day please great programmer

Am a beginner on Vb 2010, please can some one help me with a code to use in counting the number of numeric value between

between two numeric variables using vb.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying!

Hey'all
I'd like referrals for reliable Magento payment extension for Interswitch.

Thanks!

Guy's how far names from Ogun State?
Can't find guardian anywhere!

Hi Y'all!
A friend of mine needs a developer for a blackberry app, anyone interested send me a personal message and I'll reply with necessary details!
Adios!

Try using this instead "Using reader As MySqlDataReader = command.ExecuteReader"

Hexzy: I don't know what this fuss is all about, is the woman suppose to dress to please herself? Is she not her husband property and her husband hers?

I can tell your level of intelligence from your articulations, so I'll not waste my precious bandwidth on you!

Cool!
How do we get started?

Kunlexic: Although,pple are different 4rm each other but if its me,i will have right on my wife choice,2ndly the wife supposed not to wear trouser again since she had become married.

You're just a narrow minded traditional human being!!!
Do you think you own your wife
And under which law is the wife not supposed to wear trousers cause she's married

Billionaires: A man who reasons like that is a loser. Tell the wife to divorce the loser.

The guy is actually a big looser, cause if he saw her like that during courtship and still married her then it means he doesnt really have personal convictions on the matter. All he's doing is succumbing to family pressure instead of reasoning with his wife and standing by her.
He should be very careful O! Cause there's a limit to what the woman can swallow in bitteness. If he pushes her and she breaks peren!!! Then he'll have more to chew than trousers!!!

la_unique: And so what? Prof let me bring primary school algebra for you and see how well you will do with it. Intelligence is not all about speaking big grammar, it's an all-round thing

Guy what are you saying
Baba park well jooor...

All those dimwits saying trash without objectivity should keep shut.
PEJ has no constitutional right in the country, and has absolutely NO RIGHT performing in the capacity which she did. How can a person without constitutional authority oppose a Governor
And Sir Wole spoke based on the premise of her actions, her trashy talk is just a response to his well constructed argument!!!

yahooz:

I fnk it wnt exceed a mnth 4rm nw!
Dose who had deir test yesterday, were u pple also abt 1,500 in all?

Close to that!

bad_ass_nigga:
dude r u trying to type 71?
anyhow we all will soon know our fate vry soon

Have any idea as to how soon offers would be made?

Congrats to y'all that wrote today.
Could y'all shed more light on the whole IT section, cause not everybody did core CS.
Just want to know if it's IT generally or CS...
Fenks!

yahooz:
No verbal in mine, der may be 4 u. 100questions, 60minits. Upon submission, u get 2 see ur score straight up so u kno ur fate! Abt 500people per batch, 3batches, dt makes it abt 1500 2dae, may also b 1500 2mao! It was batched based on ur state of origin in alphabetical order. U need speed, if nt, O.Y.O. All d best!

Thanks a lot for your contribution.
Pls do they allow calculators and like a sheet of paper for scribbling??

Could you guys please send the relevant materials to me.
Thanks a lot!

Just got shortlisted, dnt know what to expect!