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I agree with peterwins 200%

By the way what kind of people send 100K pounds/dollar to others to start a business without knowing anythin about their ability to run such a business or ppl they haven't met in ten years ?

Did it occur to you that the relative you are sending money to might not be actual dupes but poor businessmen ?

@bigheart - sorry to hear your tale but you need to quit complaining . . .you most likely had 'shitty' business plans that would have failed even if you were in Nigeria. What do you know about commercial digital photography ? what do you know about transport business ?
Did you expect to just 'throw' money to Nigeria and hope it suddenly starts yielding fruits ?
Why should you give a recommendation for a lady you didn't know too well ? On what basis did you recommend her ? as in what were the references ?

Is selling cars in Nigeria beans ?

I mean we falter at the basic principles of life and dealing with people and then come here spewing Nigeria this , Nigeria that . . . .




and to those of you that loan others money and they have refused to/are unable to pay back. That is a good example of life schooling for you . . . . .

THERE IS JUST ONE SIMPLE PRINCIPLE, NEVER LOAN ANY AMOUNT YOU ARE NOT READY TO GIVE AWAY - 'SIMPLES' and stop coming to tell funny stories on Nland . . .

Has it not occurred to you that 'most' people who find themselves in a situation where they need to borrow money are also likely to be in the situation where they can't pay back ?



I believe the greatest way to live a relevant life is by reaching out to help others, 'even when you eat alone, you'll still die one day'. It doesn't matter whether the person is in Nigeria, Malawi or the US.
We just need to apply basic wisdom in relating with peopl who need our help.



My little mind tells me that most/some people have joined the bandwagon simply because they never really wanted to reach out to others in the first place

You guys are deviating from the OP's question.

I most say I agree with logica. . .

1. The way PHP handles sessions (or better still the way most programmers use session in PHP) introduce a major security hole in applications. Many don't realise that Sessions are 'super,super global variables'. Run as much as you can away from them. Use your DB, lang files, functions, classes to move data around. let sessions only store state data and not any other. My two cents


To the OP, as spike said get the SERVER['php_self'] but I'll say preferably append it to the login page as a url var. if you feel paranoid about that, then encrypt before you append, avoid sessions as much as possible. . . . .

Vikin: My dear, it's 65% chance that you smell....even if you live in the coldest region of the world....get a deodorant and use it.

Maybe 35% you don't smell, but are you willing to take that chance. People may not tell you because they don't want to offend you.

But,....

I hate to deceive myself but I might be one of the 35%.
Because of my peculiar habit, I actually carry a deodorant in my glove compartment all the time but I just use it sparingly.
Have not used it today and am still in the office !!!!!

And as I said earlier, I once had a roomie who had a strong odour way back in school. Many of our pals complained about him openly but none ever mentioned any to me. Maybe I just don't have a strong odour !

nwando: Please use the deodorant I beg of you
Every body from adolescence has a body odor,some are just worse than others
You may not smell it but people around you can
It is not a matter of hygiene
You can shower 3 times a day and still have an odor
And cologne is not enough
Especially in a hot region like Nigeria,it is a must

The odor that hits you as soon as you arrive Murtala Mohammed airport is unbelievable
I have had guests in my home from Nigeria ,manly acquaintances and struggled but didn't have the courage to tell them to use a deodorant.
I will definitely have no qualms saying that to my family member if they are from my side of the family
Nigerians are very guilty of this .

You are right about that. and that's why I made the earlier post in the first place. Even if you have an odour, you probably won't know it (apart from observing the smell of your used clothing items).
And besides am mostly in parts of the country with low humidity. The last time I was in Lagos, I had my bath like 4/5 times a day.
Anyway, I'll just try to pay more attention to it. Thanks

baby_123: You probably smell like MAD! I hardly sweat and I know body odour will come if I don't use a deodorant. Except I stay in bed all day under the AC. As long as you are older than 13, then you have a body odour. They were probably trying to hint you, but you refused to take a hint.loool. . I would be so self concious all day without a deodorant. If someone complains about a smell, that will be the end of me that day. Cause I don't like perfumes too much.

Na you go smell like mad Didn't you see my niece (Nwando is the name of my only niece) telling me I'm one of the blessed 35% and am just 12 plus.
Anyway truth is I have a Mum and sisters with particularly strong sense of smell and I've seen them complain severely and severally about ppl's body odour, infact one of my sisters won't even come near you if you have an odour ! but never have they once complained to me.

Are ther people without body odour ?

Reason why I am asking is cos I hardly use deodorants - mine (deodorants) last for months sometimes.

And nobody (I mean nobody) as ever complained about my oduor and I have been in places and groups where people were advising others about their odour but never me.

You guys are scaring me, are you saying everybody who doesn't use a deodorant smells ?

leocolin: How does fasting related to the issue? Na wa 4 some people..LWKMD

What I meant was - she needs help and she needs it fast. Are you from Mountain of fire, wetin carry your mind go fasting ?

~vicky~:
once the love is dead in a marriage, there is “no-way” or there is nothing that can be done to rekindle that special love once existing between a husband and wife. when love is gone, it’s gone, and nothing, not nothing, will bring it back to life in the core of a heart and soul. Once it’s dead, it’s over and done with, and there’s not a thing the couple can do to keep the union alive.

You need help and fast (most importantly before you get married)

lordZOUGA: he is now corrected.
So, Can you guys go on with enumerating java's disabilities? That part was fun.

http://steve-yegge..com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html

This particular article gained www notoriety for giving java the KO punch.

@mods - you can close this thread after everyone might have read the article

Sisi_Kill: Eeeya, even when they are celebrating/happy they still look....harsh (for lack of a better word).

Honestly, that hunhunhun look some Nigerian guys have is just not a plus which is kinda sad because some of them are probably nice, good guys but deep down in your heart. . .you pray not to be caught dead in a dark alley with them..

That is the cummulative effect of several years of suffering. 'sufayo' is written in every vein of the body.

in defensive mode . . .are you not married to a Nigerian Man ? (exits thread in search of the latest Nigerian babe joke)

Shollypopz: Duh! It's quite apparent. In fact, the average "Ekitian" is brighter than the average "whatever state u come from"!

if itsmodella, slimyem or abil where from Ekiti. Maybe I might buy into the OP's assertion . . .

Shollypopz: hahahahaha...I died laughing @ some states ....

Yep, we took all the bright ones from Ondo. #Repping Ekiti

Are you one of the bright ones from Ekiti ? . . .. just asking

Redmosquito: Filters 99.99% of germs! D remaining 0.01% that make it through go bad gan!

@red mosquito, I can now confirm that you are a mad man !

by the way, I was the first person to like the post

I have it on good authority that JAVA was invented by the illuminati . . . ..

@poster,
My opinion is this , there is no such thing has a difficult (or intractable) programmatic problem or difficult software.

What we have are usually problems that are large and complex, hence might not be easily solved by a one man team.

Once you know the requirement of a given task, and can break the problem down into simpler sub task and importantly, you are well versed in the language of choice (and also sure the language or platform in question is optimized for tackling such a problem).
You are good to go.

For instance, I might not be able to write an accounting/audit software right now, not because it is difficult but because I do not have the requisite knowledge of accounting processes. What I am saying is that as long as you can break a problem down into algorithms, then you're good to go.

We do not have some kind of software being developed in Nigeria today not because of intelligence but rather because some projects require a long time, large number of people and willing investors. Not just smash and grab. I can't attribute that to being difficult really.


and no 2 on your list is definitely not true.
We forget that, the biggest innovation in IT today are so not because of complexity but rather due to concept. There are some concepts that are not necessarily difficult to implement but are game changers.
PHP took one year to develop and deploy in its first stage and it was done by one (or two) individuals. The latest craze now - node. apparently didn't take that much time from initialization to release.
The selling point for these product was more of the fact that the concept was ground breaking.

I have a dream to work on PHP++ compiler and based on the concept, it shouldn't take more than a year. Its just that right now I do not have enough savings (or sponsorship) to undertake a project that might not fetch me a dime within a year or two.

Javanian: I don't want to see any ''i want to learn programming'' comment on this thread, there is a thread for that. Be warned!

@moderator , please let them be. Even the mighty Jesus said 'let the little children come unto me . . . . '

The reality is that few programming topics make the front page and for those who have a fascination for programming but don't know how to, that's always the first question on their lips.
I know you must have heard this a million times but you should always expect it when a prog topic makes the first page.

There are kindlier ways to gently steer them to the right place rather than hiding posts and threats.

You only end up chasing people away from a field that has a dreadful reputation already and continue to perpetuate the impression that programmers are broody antisocials

lordZOUGA: writing drivers for both Operating Systems requires C/C++... But for linux, its pure C/C++. On Windows, you will get some mutilated version of C/C++. I will always take the pure version..

You're kidding me right ? Just think of the windows API C++ has the 'regular C++ on steriods'. I wrote a hardware driver about ten years ago for my final year thesis. and it was one of the most 1daful programming experiences I ever had.
The USB interface wasn't quite commonplace in the market as at then (most systems just had one or two ports on the front panels), so I used the printer port interface.
Based on my experience, every code in pure C/C++ ran in window api programming. You just had to lay your hands on the documentation to know how some stuff are accomplished.

To be a successful windows programmer, it is of neccessity to 'worship at the feet' of one man - PETZOLDI.

Charles Petzoldi single handedly birthed a generation of windows programmers and without his works, I doubtlessly would not have been able to complete my project. God bless him !

On leaving school, my fascination was in hardware programming/interfacing and embedded systems but I realised that there were few opportunities in that line in Nigeria and didn't have the means to leave the country so I had no option but to join them - Delve into the shitty world of web programming !

seedord247: I think i had my first crush in 1988 when i turned 2

You beat me to this, you sucker


@poster, i had my first crush around four yrs old but I soon realised that I preferred seven-up

The requirements are so esoteric that you need not have advertised this on the FP of NL.

surveyProf: U can never tell, I will find out!

That was actually the process in place back then.

I remember Amokachi scoring 3 points (someguy voted him as second) while Finidi scored 1 point (third).

However, there was caveat then that you couldn't vote for a player from you country. and yes, only coaches were involved then

Jarus: Everybody that got nomination(by coaches, captains and journalists, even if one nomination) was among the initial long list released by FIFA way back November.

And getting the first 11 is also easy. Top ranked in each position. Messi (1st), Ronaldo (2nd), and Falcao (5th) were the top ranked forwards, so will automatically mean they are the forwards for FIFA 11. Drogba came 8th, and 4th ranked forward(after the trio). Except you want a strange formation of 4 strikers, Drogba couldn't have made First 11, despite coming 8th overall. Ditto for Pirlo. Yes, he did well, but other midfielders (Iniesta, Xavi, Xabi and who's the 4th again) ranked ahead of him, not because FIFA didn't his face but because the four guys appeared more in coaches and captains' nominations than Pirlo's.

It's that simple. I have never for once believed FIFA or CAF sit down and give someone award.

You're wrong there sir. The selection process for the team of the year is quite different from that of the WFOTY.
Case in point. Pirlo was actually 7th on the footballer of the year list, higher than Alonso's position, however Alonso ended up making the team.


Point 2 - Agreed FIFA's process is transparent (but then transparent does not always mean fair and Unbiased - refer to the poll for player of the century in 2000 to get what I mean) but in the case of CAF, meeeen, don't vouch for those douch bags. How else do you explain Hadji beating Okocha in '98 or EL-haddj beating champions league winning Ossei kuffour in 2001 (francophone connection anyone ?). or how in the world will you rationalize the year Drogba was denied the award simply because he refused to attend the show since he was preparing for a semi final match with the elephants team ! Those CAF guys are mostly out of their senses really.
When an organisation implements the head to head rule in a round robin competition that is not in the home and away format (2010 nations cup) Then nothing else should surprise you.

REALLY,

Are there still people who cry when watching movies !!! (smh non stop )

the last time I felt sad while watching TV was Aguero's last minute strike against QPR in the final game of last season. and my saddest TV moment was rigobert songs last penalty against Nigeria that made the eagles lose the 2000 nations cup at the national stadium (Now that's a valid reason to cry - patriotism).

If James Bond and Di Caprio like, let them die one million time for film, na dem saka

@OP,

Its not an issue of 2:1 or 2:2, its an issue of demand and supply.

The labour market is saturated , hence employers can be as choosy as they want (Dangote anyone ?).


I have applied for a job at some point where I was dropped because of the school I attended, not my degree or grade, and the organisation in question was an europe based multinational. So quit whinning and make the best of what you have

I went on an overdrive and came up with a solution that will definitely take something special to beat.

6 lines !!!.

The only thing I can say is, PYTHON IS SWEET


You can check it out !

li = raw_input("enter ".split(' ')
intarr,wordarr,finalarr = [],[],[]
[intarr.append(elem) if elem.isdigit() else wordarr.append(elem) for elem in li ]
wordarr.sort()
intarr.sort()
print [intarr.pop(0)	 if elem.isdigit() else wordarr.pop(0) for elem in li ]

omo_to_dun: @PRINCE

I am not denying it. I was only making a point. I wanted to show that if we all removed the empty lines and made some clever adjustments, our code would be small.

Bro, the reason why I didn't mention yours was cos as much as your logic might have been right. The code still didn't meet up with what ekt_bear specified, ability to receive input from stdin and output to stdout, for obvious reasons

l =  "car truck 8 4 bus 6 1"
lint, lalph, lnew  = [],[],[]
for i in l.split():
    if i.isdigit():
        lint.append(i) 
    else:
        lalph.append(i)
lalph.sort(reverse=True)
lint.sort(reverse=True)        
for i in l.split():
    if i.isdigit():
        lnew.append(lint.pop()) 
    else:
        lnew.append(lalph.pop())
print " ".join(map(str, (lnew)))

@Prince - cool bro - 15 lines,
now let me see how far I can refactor mine

lordZOUGA: and then the contest turns to a test of code length..

Not a big deal bro,

Many of the guys on the thread have already gotten the logic of the solution and prince did it in less than 30 mins to boot.

It was just a way of introducing more fun to the whole process. No biggie !


I don't know if you are a pythonista, so maybe just maybe you might not understand the intense pleasure of writing elegant minimalist code.


I got hooked on the whole concept bout four years back when I saw a contest on the web to write the shortest code to extract youtube videos as flv.

Definitely, Perl came first (with about just 2 lines or so), awk followed and Python was third.

InvertedHammer: This is a programming question for beginners!

Nice try though

Omo elefo , who ask you ?

ekt_bear didn't ask whether it was for novices or superman, all he said was solve it !!!

ekt_bear, I feel like punching you for depriving me of my sleep really. Saw this as I was about to hit the sack and couldn't blink until I cracked it.

My fav pastime is Python but since I dont us python in my day job, I've been terribly rusty.
Infact the stuff took me well over an hour considering I was even just installing the python executable on my new sis.

However, having lost out in the competition to be the fastest, I strove for the next glorious crown - to be the most elegant

Guess I achieved it. 19 lines of code

Prince actually did the stuff in 18 lines (with the white spaces stripped of) but the script didn't run when I tried it out. I guess he has to check out one or two stuffs in the code.

. . .and the Java solutions ? puleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaase. is that the code to calculate the GDP of Nigeria ?
Really, I appreciate you guys (the programmers) but its the lang that I detest.

To The C++ guy, I believe C++ can do better than that, That was actually my first love. but kudos though.



Check out my solution

http://pastebin.com/W3swZVfd

free13: To quarrel with the FG on this point is like quarreling with the Catholic church when they insist pupils in their schools must be Catholics and they refuse admission to a "high scoring" Muslim.

@Poster.
Are you a muslim?
Why are you trying to be cheeky, with the above statement.
I do know of a certain Alhaja Mai Deribe in maiduguri in the 1990s, whose hospital will only treat Muslims and they refuse treatment to "very ill" christians.

Please let's leave the religious sentiments out of these. I am a Christian but I believe Aribisala's view points about the main topic are clear and not ambiguous and very valid

careytommy: abeg explain this in your quoted op

Ubuntu is not built on the Android Kernel but rather the Linux kernel. it originates from the Debian Family of linux distros.



android and Ubuntu (the mobile version) are both (and separate) Linux based mobile operating systems.

aribisala0: I am not sure I am brilliant but thanks. I am grateful for your munificence (offer for recharge card) but i really do not need it. However if you have sisters taking common entrance you can send them to me for coaching

Seriously these schools account for a tiny number of our secondary school population and so must be used as a platform for integration. Many people who went to these schools may have shared a room or sat next to an "aboki" or someone from another part of Nigeria they would otherwise never have met.Initially in those days many southerners travelled to places like Wukari,Sokoto etc and I believe that was a good thing.People need to understand that these schools are NOT FOR THE BRILLIANT as this is a misconception that creates bitterness. There are many more schools where the brilliant can do their thing.

We are supposed to be building a country. If a mother normally feeds her children by serving them jointly and she observes one is not thriving/growing does she say "Let the fittest survive" or make a special provision for that child.
I regret that some Nigerians with this "we are better than the rest" supremacist attitude have not learnt fron the past.They are clever but NOT WISE

You brilliant no be small bros.

As per my sisters, they actually took their common entrance in the early eighties . are you still interested ?

aribisala0: This argument about quota breeding mediocrity is a selfish one made by southern ethnic groups who believe in their superiority without looking at the bigger picture.
The FG is NOT responsible for secondary school education under our laws. That is the starting point; if we understand that we would understand the purpose of these schools.

Look at the World Cup in Football e.g if it was based on "MERIT" it is probable only European and South American teams would participate .The idea is a celebration of the "WORLD" with inclusion of ALL.

The purpose of UNITY schools is to provide an environment for Nigerians of different backgrounds to integrate in this respect I feel the schools should also provide a quota for disabled people and "poor" people as well as for others with other non-academic excellence e.g sport, music etc too. They are funded with FG money and the FG is right to insist on quotas. There are other places where parents can and should insist on merit as the MAIN BUT NOT ONLY criteria but this should be in state schools.States are responsible for secondary education

Disaffected parents who want "quality " education for their children have a choice they can go privae or to state schools.Once again it is NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FG to provide secondary education and so when they set up secondary schools they have the right to insist on criteria other than merit just like a religious school etc

chai! bros you are to brilliant. Infact I don't need to type again. You just said my mind.

As much as I feel 0 as a cut off mark sounds ridiculous but as long as the entity called Nigeria still exists, then the concept of quota system is actually necessary for balance and fairness. It is cheaper for the Government to bear the cost of educating the whole North for free than to bear the brunt of boko haram with all its attendant economic implications.

Aribisala, you are so brilliant, please send your phone number let me send you recharge card as token of appreciation for you intelligence.