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Good things, na money spoil am.

Her name is "Member Feese"

If you ask them to sign an NDA they will just tell you to get lost. The best you can do is have something to offer so they will have a reason to hire you along with your idea. Nobody is going to buy a mere idea, because anybody can come up with an idea or get ideas for free from the Internet, forums like Nairaland, etc. There are about 6 billion heads in the world and they are all full of ideas. People will not pay for what they can get for free. Forget about that. The real value is in the development, validation, and execution of ideas.

The man is an asshole. Your friend should ignore his idiotic feedback and thank God for saving her from him.
The world will be a better place if we can have more nice women, so anyone calling a woman "too nice" is evil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7s0rhVaeqk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Tk9m0BXGU

Team Member was born hours after the news stations reported a bomb blast in the United Nation’s headquarters in the capital territory of Nigeria, Abuja. On August 26 2011, Member Hembadoon Feese a 23-year-old post-graduate student was confirmed as being in the UN building at the time of the bomb. Her car was in the parking lot, her mobile phone was off, and her body was missing. The panic escalated as the race to find Member began. Trawling through hospital, sorting through victims, Member was finally discovered in the Intensive Care Unit of the National Hospital. Able doctors, despite valiant fighting were too powerless to combat the obvious; a protracted lack of facilities.

36 Hours Later…
2 parents, 2 siblings, 100s of friends & supporters and several surgeries later; it was clear that Member’s chances of surviving were extremely slim if she remained within Nigeria. The facilities, or lack of same, would be her death it appeared. With a severely damaged and heavily infected left leg, injured lungs and substantial injuries to various body parts, the 5’3, 60 kg lithe frame of Miss Feese had taken a battering. A battering her country, Nigeria, was clearly unable to fix. Member had to be evacuated as soon as possible or her condition would deteriorate quickly. On the Sunday following the bomb blast which killed over 20 people, Member was airlifted to the United Kingdom where she underwent extensive, life-saving medical treatment.

What Went Wrong?
Member’s story evinces the dilapidated state of the Nigerian health care system. A few of the obvious problems with the system as reflected in Member’s tale include;

A disturbing lack of equipment in the National Hospital, the premier public hospital of the Federation housed in the capital territory, Abuja; the CT scanner though present…did not have a connecting cable. As such, the said equipment was useless.

Oxygen had to be manually pumped as there were no ventilators. This single act almost lead to Member’s demise as the constant motion of the machine compressed a lung further. The platelete machine was away from the hospital and with an individual in a different state insinuating a system of borrowing and exchanging is in existence. To the detriment of some patients.

No equipped ambulance are in existence despite the profusion of buses decorated with the ambulance sigma. Many nurses and support staff are poorly trained for the career and are responsible for substantial post-traumatic stress disorder damage due to the cavalier attitude exhibited to both patients and traumatised families.

The clear absence of a chain of command made communication, particularly, difficult.
Team Member was born on the day of the bomb blast, Friday 26th August 2011. It originally began on Blackberry Messenger with five of Member’s friends as the only members. A small group whose purpose was to share updates about Member, encourage each other, and spread positivity to mobilize support for Member. Soon, the positivity of the group, through message and the encouragement for Member and for each other, attracted many others. As Member grew in strength, so did the Group. As she regained her identity and focus, she returned whole in mind to speak out against the injustices in Nigeria. And so did Team Member. The Group has continued to grow in strength, advancing from being merely a support group to an advocacy group but our message remains the same at the core; Positivity and Support, in a fight for a better tomorrow.

Join us, tomorrow is just beginning.
Watch Member’s remarkable story below and sign up here to join the movement!

Facebook: [url]facebook.com/iamteammember[/url]
Twitter: @iamteammember
Blackberry Messenger: 299795F6
Email: change@iamteammember.org
Site: www.iamteammember.org

PS: She's Nigerian, from Benue State.

You don't want to go into the business of suing. You're not in America. I recommend a more productive outlook.

You can still benefit from the idea by claiming credit for it. You can ask them to credit you as the originator of the idea for a little amount of money (don't be greedy) in exchange for an agreement promising not to sue them. Even if they refuse this, you can still use your story to convince IT developers that your other ideas are worth it, but you need to bring some skills to the table too. Marketing, etc. Nobody will invest in you if all you have is an idea. What's the company's name and the name of the product?

Price pls.

Pants are bad for male fertility. ;-)

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@stalwartnaija: It's not the same thing. Investing in treasury bills is risk-free. There's no guarantee that the rates won't crash, but you're guaranteed to get the current rates when your bills mature, unlike stocks which may be completely worthless by the time you want to sell. The main risk is that inflation may be higher than your expectations at the time of the auction, eroding your gains.

megaplaza: @seun thanks for your comment but stating those things that PHP struggles to do that Python does elegantly and effortlessly will be great.

- GUI programming.
- Sysadmin scripting.
- Programming for embedded systems.
- Building a shared components like caches for use in multi-threaded web programs.
- Processing background tasks.
- Building a standalone web server.
- Exploratory programming using a REPL.
- Programming with co-routines and lightweight threads.
- Software projects that make use of exotic architectures.

I'm not an expert in PHP, but the basic idea is that Python, as a general-purpose programming language like Java, C#, or C++, is designed to handle any type of programming task - provided your performance requirements are not extreme - while PHP evolved as a web templating language and struggles with anything outside that narrow area. It can be made to work for other things, though.

@megaplaza: Python is a general purpose programming language. It can do web, desktop, CLI, whatever, though it's rather slow. The problem with starting with a specialized web programming languages is that, when you need to do something outside the web, you'll have to learn an entirely new language. That's a steep learning curve. You end up limiting yourself to the web in order to avoid that. The problem with PHP specifically is that, even in web programming, it struggles to do things Python does elegantly & effortlessly.

The main difference between Python and PHP is that the Python BDFL, Guido Van Rossum, really cares about making Python a language that is a joy to use. When new features are suggested, there's a debate about the various ways to implement them, and Guido will always choose the most simple, elegant approach that's easy to understand. If there's no elegant & simple way to implement the feature, Guido will simply reject it or delay the decision until a better approach is discovered.

Python is a language controlled by a programmer with great taste, who values simplicity and logical consistency because he sees himself as a regular programmer, not an uber-geek. Twice - during the transition to Python 2, and during the transition to Python 3 - the Python community has broken backward compatibility in order to make Python even better. Every time a new feature is added to Python, I find myself wondering how I ever lived without it. The developers of Python care about making programmers happy!

Personally, I'm a big fan of Guido's philosophy. I love writing programs that are straightforward and elegant. I don't like writing convoluted "codes" that only wizards can understand. Python makes it easy for me to write simple and elegant programs that work very well, because the language is simple and elegant too. Its dynamic typing is great for web programming and exploratory coding.

@Dual Core: Yea, I'll just call my good friend, Larry Page.

It's just a google search bug. They seem to think all pages on New Nairaland are new. Check the Topic numbers instead.

Here's an idea: stop posting the link. Find something else to post. Tell your story, start a gist!!

^^ I've been unable to reproduce the problem at all. Your description wasn't detailed enough and it works for me.

maclatunji: ^The same thing applies to direct quoting of posts. A new feature that many Nairalanders have praised.

Quoted directly

Ghenghis: Can't you use the import feature and point to any path you want ?
From experience eclipse rarely forces you to do anything.

The import feature just copies the files in the import directory to the Eclipse project directory, but: what I've discovered about Eclipse is that the project directory is very lightweight - it just includes 1-2 special files, e.g. .project and .pydevproject, so there's no real reason to keep your sources elsewhere.

C#/.NET, Java & PHP/HTML/CSS/Javacript/MySQL are the most lucrative. Python is the sweetest.

I've discovered how to maintain sources outside the Eclipse project directory on Window 7. Using the mklink command in a shell window with admin privileges, you can create a virtual source directory within the Eclipse project directory that points to the real source directory outside the Eclipse project directory. Eclipse treats the directory symlink exactly as if it's a real directory. Yay.

UPDATE: Doesn't work well with Mercurial Plugin. Now using Eclipse project directory as the source directory.

If you come accross a troll, you can report his posts using the "report to moderator" link.
That's preferable to the selfish ignore list suggestion because it will benefit everyone. Geez.

If spam increases traffic, why do we have an anti-spam bot? People should try to use their cranial organs.

Version 2.0.2 is out for smf forum u can go to their site seun posted above for more info

We don't use SMF anymore. We use our own script now.

mkmyers45: Why not go online and search?#Googleisyourfriend

That's not helpful.

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U guys forgot to add quality contents

I think this is obvious to everyone.

I see some bloggers and site owners copy pasting articles word for word and not knowing the demage they giving to themselves and their page rank.

Good point, and it just re-emphasizes the fact that content is the most important thing.

I believe the answer is not only content moi.. First check out for the total reg members. Getting closer to a million. That one no be joke. That clearly indicates that time has been a key factor.

The total number of registered members isn't important; only active members matter. But you have to ask yourself what attracted all those people to sign up on Nairaland in the first place. There's no doubt that time is a factor, but Naijaryders and some other Nigerian forums preceded Nairaland. What was different about Nairaland? I believe we were the first Nigerian forum to take content seriously.

candylips: Seun why will you want to include source directories outside the project directory.

You can easily create a seperate project for this right ??

I like to separate my source directories from my IDE project directories because I often have to access my sources from the command line, outside the IDE. It's a convenient feature, which is why Netbeans supports it. I like the feeling of freedom it gives me, and I've grown used to it. I suppose I will eventually have to get used to doing things the Eclipse Way, which is not so bad because of Eclipse's support for most open source stuff, but I don't like tools that force me to do things in a particular way.

Nonso Anozie was awesome in Game of Thrones 2-4

I wish Real Madrid would play better. Though I support them, they are so uninspiring. Wish Ronaldo was no 9.