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It was removed because of spammers, but many people seem to like the change, hmm.

It is amazingly fast. I really want to use it as my primary browser, but I'm stuck with Firefox.

Do you want spam with that? (the button was removed temporarily to combat spam)

The post editing feature will be restored very soon. Don't lose heart!

It was removed because spammers were using it for nefarious purposes. it will be returned soon.

Compare any section on [nairalist+s] with any section on Nairalist. It's just copy and paste.

Hmm, Iraq and Afghanistan are different countries. You couldn't have been appointed to both countries.

Google it. The last episode (this week's episode) was awesome. When it finished I was like "wow".

Sounds like fun. How much are you paying?

(1) You cannot quote someone's post if the person's post is not in the last page, so i feel every post made should have a quote button.

I removed it.

(2) I think every post should come with the  picture of the poster.

I removed it too.

(3) I think we should be able to code little it with HTML

The above features are not compelling reasons to upgrade, since I was the one who removed them

I made a lot of changes to the version of SMF I started with, and I would need to reapply the changes. That's very labor-intensive, and the benefits are not clear. The database schema is still horribly denormalized, and the new anti-spam tools are not sufficient to prevent the kind of spam we experience on Nairaland. I don't want to upgrade to a newer version of SMF; I want to upgrade to something completely fresh and improved.

Heroes has been fixed. The last episode was great:
- Peter can only absorb one power at a time now.
- Hiro has lost his omnipotence: you need to watch the last episode.
- The women are stronger and more independent and useful.

@Omnipotens: What do you mean who copied who? You seriously mean you don't know?

Portable FTP? There must be dozens out there! But you can make one with a better GUI - that matters.

He's right. The moderators and I don't communicate as we should.

They are not vacancies.

The following links might be useful:

http://www.firs.gov.ng/careers/online_vacancies.aspx
http://www.firs.gov.ng/careers/applicationform.aspx
http://www.firs.gov.ng/careers/fir_employment.aspx

What makes you feel this is fake?

webdezzi:
@seun, so with cherrypy, can u use session?

It supports sessions and cookie manipulation. If you can dig through the wiki documentation, heh.

Great idea.  In other words, something like Wikipedia or Stackoverflow.  It could really work.

But you can't rely on instructors; you have to let people help each other with info on the site.

Welcome to Nairaland. Your advert has been approved! Don't forget to post on Nairalist, too.

Your advert has been approved. Thanks for posting. You can also post on our sister site Nairalist.

That means they have responded to the outcry. They have listened to their customers. That's good!

You're right about PHP-GTK, I guess.

The time to start buying is probably close.

Corporate identity theft, basically. Passing off. And stealing content without your permission.

Here are some articles that convinced me about Python:
- http://www.python.org/about/success/esr/
- http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
- http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

I maintain a successful forum written in PHP and I've written a website based on Python.

PHP is the clear choice if you're building websites for clients, primarily because
(1) hosting PHP is effortless because every host supports PHP
(2) you can never be blamed for using popular languages like PHP and Java
(3) PHP is designed for building websites.  And so very good at that.
(4) There are lots of free PHP scripts on the web.  e.g. SMF.  Enough said.

But PHP is also an extremely ugly and primitive language. (Python is beautiful)

Python is beautiful, but the Python community has failed to come up with an acceptable replacement for PHP.  On one hand the WSGI standard doesn't have any support for cookies or sessions, which is stupid - have you ever designed a website that doesn't require cookies?  No.  Yet Python's only standard for web development has no support for cookies. All these little things. Fortunately, there's CherryPy.

If you are in control of your deployment environment, i.e. you have a VPS or dedicated server that can run CherryPy, and you are tired of the ugliness of PHP, then Python may be for you. With Python you can build web apps, windows GUI apps, command line programs, and even commercial games. With PHP, you can only build web applications, so you have to learn a second language, which sucks.

Go for PHP if you're building websites for clients.  Go for Python if you're building websites for yourself.

See "No Google In Igbo Language?"

Dammit. It's going down. I could have profited from this but I'm not the type to gamble. Ouch, ouch, ouch.