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TeamSimple:
While miss unilag gets a brand new car and ticket to dubai for showing us stretch marks..we never ready for this country.

This cracked me up seriously!

Most people tend to misuse the above words and use them interchangeably and i find it amusing because most of them don't know wat exactly they are saying. Some of them will still form phoneh ontop

I still don't understand why there has been no evidence against Gulen on the accusations from Erdogan. Good that the US did not fall for mere allegations.

I see nothing wrong with a handshake. The only thing i do not support is her not being briefed about the traditions or 'do's and don'ts' of other tribes before meeting their rulers. Apart from that, a handshake is just a handshake. I don't expect the First Lady to kneel before and Alaafin.

Here's what i am seeing. It's not true.

Femi Adesina talked like someone out of his depth. I was totally disgusted.

I'm really fed up with this government and that is a big understatement.

This comparison is exactly what I have been looking for. Nice one OP

InZA:
Since you stay and work within Ajah/Lekki, I suggest you switch to airtel... Their data tariffs on the Speedo plan is really on point.

Dial *141# to see the list of options

Since you stay within my axis and you root for airtel, then airtel it is for me. I'm so done with glo. I have over 2GB remaining within a 6 day validity period and i can't do much with it.

feldido:
MTN for now is good, but I bet when guys like u starts porting back, the network will slow.

I've always known glo to be the worse network for data in Nigeria,followed by airtel.

I was using MTN before i moved to glo. The data plan then was nothing to write home about thats why i ported to glo

Tocheagle:
Etisalat is good but expensive

I think i will try that out.

I've been using glo since last year or thereabouts and one major advantage they have over other network providers is their data plan which is affordable but their network has been nothing to write home about.

Last week, they had a downtime of about 18 hours if not more and there was no sms or notification on what was going on. I couldn't even open google, it was that bad. Now dont go saying 'it depends on your area'. I stay in Ajah and work in Lekki which is 'supposed' to have good network but nah, its still as crappy as hell.

I tweeted at Glo's verified handle (with wifi...not glo's network) all i got from them was to switch to 2G. I said NO NETWORK n they were busy saying 2G, 3G crap like i haven't done all that before tweeting at them (see screenshot).Trust me i am a very techy person and i did all i could to get network on my phone but all to no avail. I could finally use the internet the next morning.

Fast forward today and i have network issues again. This time it's even showing me the H+ connectivity and later dropped down to E (2g) but i can't even open any webpage. I have data and supposedly have strong connection but mba, glo just won't allow me be great.

I think its high time i changed network because it affects my work, most times i use my phone for internet hotspot to work at home and most of the work i do is critical. I can't afford to be without internet just because of glo's ineptitude. I have a friend that works in NTEL and what she tells me about the network is giving me hope. I just hope its not another GLO or MTN in the making. I'm just tired.

PS: I'm not even posting this with glo network. It's that terrible.

Number 3 pix tho

Your writeup is hilarious

DrayZee:
I'm not an author. Whoever you think started it is not the author. They all come from one site. And I'm bringing this here so Nairalanders can see it,instead of just seeing bad news about the government and bombings and celebrities every time. Let them see something to make them happy.
Not everything is about frontpage. Those who come to the Education sector of Nairaland can read it.
And who is the OurSchoolNews anyway. I will only answer to him if he owns Zikoko.com

Yep...everything is on Zikoko.com. i guess that is where the ourschoolnews guy gets his stuff from. Anybody that puts this kind of list can only get it from zikiko, they even have their paid writers.

Hi everyone, I am a forty-two years old self-taught developer, and this is my story.
A couple of weeks ago I came by the tweet below, and it made me think about my career, and those thoughts brought me back to where it all began for me:

I started my career as a software developer at precisely 10am, on Monday October 6th, 1997, somewhere in the city of Olivos, just north of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The moment was Unix Epoch 876142800. I had recently celebrated my 24th birthday.

The World In 1997

The world was a slightly different place back then.
Websites did not have cookie warnings. The future of the web were portals like Excite.com. AltaVista was my preferred search engine. My e-mail was kosmacze@sc2a.unige.ch, which meant that my first personal website was located in http://sc2a.unige.ch/~kosmacze.

We were still mourning Princess Lady Diana. Steve Jobs had taken the role of CEO and convinced Microsoft to inject 150 million dollars into Apple Computer. Digital Equipment Corporation was suing Dell. The remains of Che Guevara had just been brought back to Cuba. The fourth season of “Friends” had just started.

Gianni Versace had just been murdered in front of his house. Mother Teresa, Roy Lichtenstein and Jeanne Calment (the world’s oldest person ever) had just passed away. People were playing Final Fantasy 7 on their PlayStation like crazy. BBC 2 started broadcasting the Teletubbies. James Cameron was about to release Titanic. The Verve had just released their hit “Bitter Sweet Symphony” and then had to pay most royalties to the Rolling Stones.

Excite in 1997, courtesy of the Internet Archive
Smartphones looked like the Nokia 9000 Communicator; they had 8 MB of memory, a 24 MHz i386 CPU and run the GEOS operating system.
Smartwatches looked like the CASIO G-SHOCK DW-9100BJ. Not as many apps but the battery life was much longer.

IBM Deep Blue had defeated for the first time Garry Kasparov in a game of chess.
A hacker known as “_eci” published the C code for a Windows 3.1, 95 and NT exploit called “WinNuke,” a denial-of-service attack that on TCP port 139 (NetBIOS) causing a Blue Screen of Death.

Incidentally, 1997 is also the year Malala Yousafzai, Chloë Grace Moretz and Kylie Jenner were born.
Many film storylines take place in 1997, to name a few: Escape from New York, Predator 2, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Godfather III and according to Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Skynet became self-aware at 2:14 am on August 29, 1997. That did not happen; however, in an interesting turn of events, the domain google.com had been registered on September 15th that year.

We were two years away from Y2K and the media were starting to get people nervous about it.


My First Developer Job
My first job consisted of writing ASP pages in various editors, ranging from Microsoft FrontPage, to HotMeTaL Pro to EditPlus, managing cross-browser compatibility between Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer 4, and writing stored procedures in SQL Server 6.5 powering a commercial website published in Japanese, Russian, English and Spanish — without any consistent UTF-8 support across the software stack.

The product of these efforts ran in a Pentium II server hosted somewhere in the USA, with a stunning 2 GB hard disk drive and a whooping 256 MB of RAM. It was a single server running Windows NT 4, SQL Server 6.5 and IIS 2.0, serving around ten thousand visitors per day.
My first professional programming language was this mutant called VBScript, and of course a little bit of JavaScript on the client side, sprinkled with lots of “if this is Netscape do this, else do that” because back then I had no idea how to use JavaScript properly.
Interestingly, it’s 2016 and we are barely starting to understand how to do anything in JavaScript.
Unit tests were unheard of.

The Agile Manifesto had not been written yet. Continuous integration was a dream. XML was not even a buzzword. Our QA strategy consisted of restarting the server once a week, because otherwise it would crash randomly. We developed our own COM+ component in Visual J++ to parse JPEG files uploaded to the server. As soon as JPEG 2000-encoded files started popping up, our component broke miserably.

We did not use source control, not even CVS, RCS or, God forbid, SourceSafe. Subversion did not exist yet. Our Joel Test score was minus 25.
6776 Days
For the past 6776 days I have had a cup of coffee in the morning and wrote code with things named VBScript, JavaScript, Linux, SQL, HTML, Makefiles, Node.js, CSS, XML, .NET, YAML, Podfiles, JSON, Markdown, PHP, Windows, Doxygen, C#, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Java, Socket.io, Ruby, unit tests, Python, shell scripts, C++, Objective-C, batch files, and lately Swift.

In those 6776 days lots of things happened; most importantly, my wife and I got married. I quit 6 jobs and I was fired twice. I started and closed my own business. I finished my Master Degree. I published a few open source projects, and one of them landed me an article on Ars Technica by Erica Sadun herself. I was featured in Swiss and Bolivian TV shows. I watched live keynotes by Bill Gates and by Steve Jobs in Seattle and San Francisco. I spoke at and co-organised conferences in four continents.

I wrote and published two books. I burned out twice (not the books, myself,) and lots of other things happened, both wonderful and horrible.
I have often pondered about leaving the profession altogether. But somehow, code always calls me back after a while. I like to write apps, systems, software. To avoid burning out, I have had to develop strategies.
In this talk I will give you my secrets, so that you too can reach the glorious age of 40 as an experienced developer, willing to continue in this profession.

Advice For The Young At Heart

Some simple tips to reach the glorious age of 40 as a happy software developer.

1. Forget The Hype
The first advice I can give you all is, do not pay attention to hype. Every year there is a new programming language, framework, library, pattern, component architecture or paradigm that takes the blogosphere by storm. People get crazy about it. Conferences are given. Books are written. Gartner hype cycles rise and fall.

Consultants charge insane amounts of money to teach, deploy or otherwise fuckup the lives of people in this industry. The press will support these horrors and will make you feel guilty if you do not pay attention to them.
In 1997 it was CORBA & RUP.
In 2000 it was SOAP & XML.
In 2003 it was Model Driven Architecture and Software Factories.
In 2006 it was Semantic Web and OLPC.
In 2009 it was Augmented Reality.
In 2012 it was Big Data.
In 2015… Virtual Reality? Bots?

Do not worry about hype. Keep doing your thing, keep learning what you were learning, and move on. Pay attention to it only if you have a genuine interest, or if you feel that it could bring you some benefit in the medium or long run.

The reason for this lies in the fact that, as the Romans said in the past, Nil nove sul sole. Most of what you see and learn in computer science has been around for decades, and this fact is purposedly hidden beneath piles of marketing, books, blog posts and questions on Stack Overflow. Every new architecture is just a reimagination and a readaptation of an idea that was floating around for decades.

2. Choose Your Galaxy Wisely
In our industry, every technology generates what I call a “galaxy.” These galaxies feature stars but also black holes; meteoric changes that fade in the night, many planets, only a tiny fraction of which harbour some kind of life, and lots of cosmic dust and dark matter.
Examples of galaxies are, for example, .NET, Cocoa, Node.js, PHP, Emacs, SAP, etc. Each of these features evangelists, developers, bloggers, podcasts, conferences, books, training courses, consulting services, and inclusion problems. Galaxies are built on the assumption that their underlying technology is the answer to all problems. Each galaxy, thus, is based in a wrong assumption.

The developers from those different galaxies embody the prototypical attitudes that have brought that technology to life. They adhere to the ideas, and will enthusiatically wear the t-shirts and evangelize others about the merits of their choice.
Actually, I use the term “galaxy” to avoid the slightly more appropriate if not less controversial term “religion,” which might describe this phenomenon better.
In my personal case, I spent the first ten years of my career in the Microsoft galaxy, and the following nine in the Apple galaxy.

I dare say, one of the biggest reasons why I changed galaxies was Steve Ballmer. I got tired of the general attitude of the Microsoft galaxy people against open source software.
On the other hand, I also have to say that the Apple galaxy is a delightful place, full of artists and musicians and writers who, by chance or ill luck, happen to write software as well.

I attended conferences in the Microsoft galaxy, like the Barcelona TechEd 2003, or various Tech Talks in Buenos Aires, Geneva or London. I even spoke at the Microsoft DevDays 2006 in Geneva. The general attitude of developers in the Microsoft galaxy is unfriendly, “corporate” and bound in secrecy, NDAs and cumbersome IT processes.
The Apple galaxy was to me, back in 2006, exactly the opposite; it was full of people who were musicians, artists, painters; they would write software to support their passion, and they would write software with passion. It made all the difference, and to this day, I still enjoy tremendously this galaxy, the one we are in, right now, and that has brought us all together.

And then the iPhone came out, and the rest is history.
So my recommendation to you is: choose your galaxy wisely, enjoy it as much or as little as you want, but keep your telescope pointed towards the other galaxies, and prepare to make a hyperjump to other places if needed.

3. Learn About Software History
This takes me to the next point: learn how your favorite technology came to be. Do you like C#? Do you know who created it? How did the .NET project came to be? Who was the lead architect? Which were the constraints of the project and why did the language turned out to be what it is now?
Apply the same recipe to any language or CPU architecture that you enjoy or love: Python, Ruby, Java, whatever the programming language; learn their origins, how they came up to be. The same for operating systems, networking technologies, hardware, anything. Go and learn how people came up with those ideas, and how long they took to grow and mature. Because good software takes ten years, you know.

The stories surrounding the genesis of our industry are fascinating, and will show you two things: first, that everything is a remix. Second, that you could be the one remixing the next big thing. No, scratch that: you are going to be the creators of the next big thing.
And to help you get there, here is my (highly biased) selection of history books that I like and recommend:
Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik
Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber
The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen
The Mythical Man Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
You will also learn to value those things that stood the test of time: Lisp, TeX, Unix, bash, C, Cocoa, Emacs, Vim, Python, ARM, GNU make, man pages. These are some examples of long-lasting useful things that are something to celebrate, cherish and learn from.

4. Keep on Learning
Learn. Anything will do. Wanna learn Fortran? Go for it. Find Erlang interesting? Excellent. Think COBOL might be the next big thing in your career? Fantastic. Need to know more about Functional Reactive Programming? Be my guest. Design? Of course. UX? You must. Poetry? You should.
Many common concepts in Computer Science have been around for decades, which makes it worthwhile to learn old programming languages and frameworks; even “arcane” ones. First, it will make you appreciate the current state of the industry (or hate it, it depends,) and second, you will learn how to use the current tools more effectively — if anything, because you will understand its legacy and origins.

Tip 1: learn at least one new programming language every year. I did not come up with this idea; The Pragmatic Programmer book did. And it works.
One new programming language every year. Simple, huh? Go beyond the typical “Hello, World” stage, and build something useful with it. I usually build a simple calculator with whatever new technology I learn. It helps me figure out the syntax, it makes me familiar with the APIs or the IDE, etc.

Tip 2: read at least 6 books per year. I have shown above a list of six must-read books; that should keep you busy for a year. Here goes the list for the second year:
Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
The Psychology of Software Programming by Gerald M. Weinberg
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly by Bertrand Meyer
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Geekonomics by David Rice
(OK, those are seven books.)

Six books per year looks like a lot, but it only means one every 2 months. And most of the books I have mentioned in this presentation are not that long, and even better, they are outstandingly well written, they are fun and are full of insight.

Look at it this way: if you are now 20 years old, by the age of 30 you will have read over 60 books, and over 120 when you reach my age. And you will have played with at least 20 different programming languages. Think about it for a second.
Some of the twelve books I’ve selected for you have been written in the seventies, others in the eighties, some in the nineties and finally most of them are from the past decade. They represent the best writing I have come across in our industry.

But do not just read them; take notes. Bookmark. Write on the pages of the books. Then re-read them every so often. Borges used to say that a bigger pleasure than reading a book is re-reading it. And also, please, buy those books you really like in paper format. Believe me. eBooks are overrated. Nothing beats the real thing.
Of course, please know that as you will grow old, the number of things that qualify as new and/or important will drop dramatically. Prepare for this. It is OK to weep silently when you realise this.

5. Teach
Once you have learnt, teach. This is very important.
This does not mean that you should setup a classroom and invite people to hear your ramblings (although it would be awesome if you did!) It might mean that you give meaningful answers to questions in Stack Overflow; that you write a book; that you publish a podcast about your favorite technology; that you keep a blog; that you write on Medium; that you go to another continent and set up programming schools using Raspberry Pis; or that you help a younger developer by becoming their mentor (do not do this before the age of 30, though.)

Teaching will make you more humble, because it will painfully show you how limited your knowledge is. Teaching is the best way to learn. Only by testing your knowledge against others are you going to learn properly. This will also make you more respectful regarding other developers and other technologies; every language, no matter how humble or arcane, has its place within the Tao of Programming, and only through teaching will you be able to feel it.

And through teaching you can really, really make a difference in this world. Back in 2012 I received a mail from a person who had attended one of my trainings. She used to work as an Adobe Flash developer. Remember ActionScript and all that? Well, unsurprisingly after 12 years of working as a freelance Flash developer she suddenly found herself unemployed. Alone. With a baby to feed. She told me in her message that she had attended my training, that she had enjoyed it and also learnt something useful, and that after that she had found a job as a mobile web developer. She wrote to me to say thank you.

I cannot claim that I changed the world, but I might have nudged it a little bit, into something (hopefully) better. This thought has made every lesson I gave since then much more worthwhile and meaningful.

Please see link below for more. I couldn't post everything here.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/being-a-developer-after-40-3c5dd112210c#.phmpcjte3

san316:
And you will be stagnated for long.
But here is the real deal and it is from experience,

1. Always do eye service but also know what you're doing. It seriously matters what people in ur office Sa abt u not what u think about yourself.

2. Be an AGIP, show loyalty to your bosses, if possible care their bag. I know someone that grew in banking because she was good at carrying her boss' bags.

3. Be a point of reference. Let it be that any technical task that comes up, the first name that will pop into your boss' mind is yours.

4. Be a jovial and loving person in the office. This will prevent bad belle when ur colleagues see u shining.

Trust me, I have been there.

This is even more important than the list OP put out. We are in Nigeria...the norm in other countries do not apply here so i agree with you on this.

Spot on

A web designer is a front end 'programmer' they deal more with UI (user interface) . They are less skilled in the functionality of the website. They use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to make the UI more user friendly. On the other hand, Web developers are the backend programmers that deal more with the UX (user experience) in other words...they are more abt the funtionality of the website. The seamlessness and logic between navigating through pages, server side scripting, prevent hack and compromise of the website and a little bit of database management. They mostly use Java, php, ruby, MySql, etc.

weezii:
Thanks bro.

You're welcome

weezii:
How'd you do that please

Go to settings (if you use gmail) under the GENERAL tab, you will see an option 'undo send'. Enable it and set your cancellation period in seconds.

bongolistik:
When did you preordered?

Two weeks ago. I got a successful order notification o the website. They said an email confirmation will be sent to me but i still haven't seen any email. I even tweeted at them, no reply.

I still haven't gotten an email notification from them upon successful preordering of my sim online which on its own was a helluva job.

I found a way of retracting(undoing sent mails) my mails before they fully get sent. It has saved my ass a couple of times.

Lemme go and check the authenticity of these acronyms. Informative though.

The ntel site is super crappy. Preordering a sim is just work. It takes time to load even though i have good internet connection. Could this be a sign of things to come under this hyped network??

Its only guilty people here that will type 'THANK YOU JESUS'. Op it is very wrong to deceive people all in the name of preaching the gospel. Preach it anyway...anyone who has ears will hear. I don't subscribe to what you did though. My two cents. btw this is the first time i am commenting on this Romance section. Hypocrisy on the part of the OP just had to make me do this.

Suntemi:
I'm waiting to get my pre-ordered Sim cards

How did you preorder? I want to order mine asap.

That fact about the cat and rat is very true.

olsheye:
Pre soak your beans and throw away the water . either withcold water overnight or warm water for 1hour. Dont miss out on beans.It taste better than way.thats how we enjoy it here in Greece

I will definitely try that out. I have stopped eating beans at the moment.

ToseroRock:
Stop consuming immediately or consume less, serious sign of ulcer.

I don't even eat it anymore

Michellla:
thanks tons

You're welcome