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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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Download this to your Windows PC: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

@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.

@bendazum: what do you disagree with?

I meant exactly what I said. Pay for a fixed percentage (e.g. 1%, 6%, 30%) of Nairaland's traffic in a period of time (week)

I used to love Netbeans because it supported multiple languages and it didn't impose any structure on projects, but since netbeans 7 dropped support for Python, I've been stuck with Netbeans 6.9.2.

I'm trying to pick up Eclipse because it supports most Open Source languages and tools (e.g. git) very well, but I find it to be far less responsive than Netbeans and much less flexible (for example, you can't include source directories outside your project directory)

I'm planning to sell adverts on "slices" of Nairaland, where a slice of Nairaland represents a fixed percentage of Nairaland's traffic. What do you think about this?

When pressed, I always tell people that content is the key thing, but unfortunately, nobody ever believes me.