willace:
I am currently Trying to create my own operating system and its not easy. Am trying to build it based on the linux kernel since its already an established kernel
The process involves knowledge of c++, ARM assembly. Am currently in the multi tasking phase .
Please any suggestion would help

This might help -> http://ccis2k.org/iajit/PDF/vol.9,no.1/1614-7.pdf

Vicorolex1:
hello guys,
I'm an upcoming programmer. I presently wish to delve into d Linux world and explore it. I have both the Ubuntu and Kali version. can u Pls give a detailed explanation of the similarities and difference btw these two? thanks.

This might help you out fam ~> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions

pcguru1:

I will like to be straightforward as keep it simple and short, the summary is I have no ideas or clues when it comes to Startups, I have made plans to setup a company since I've handle alot of Projects Backend and Frontend and mobile, sadly because of the nature of the contract I'm never able to mention them even when the softwares are so popular that I want to say I actually created that.

I've tried to get ideas and read on Startups but the issue is am too technical. All I can think of is Servers, Threads, writing this code unit test, I have spent an unhealthy amount of time always reading and playing with codes, right now I can honestly say I almost have no business sense in a way. am not asking you to tell me ideas but asking how I can easily find problems and create solutions for them. Sometimes maybe am cut out to be a CTO and not a CEO. Business is not my thing ...........to think i studied business administrator. Thanks guys

These links might help you get creative:

1. https://www.nairaland.com/2151159/lets-post-ideas-here-4
2. https://www.nairaland.com/2211859/what-best-web-based-businesses-start
3. https://www.nairaland.com/2133373/building-app-lets-users-locate

I wish you good luck.

kaboninc:


By working local I meant the focus should be on harnessing opportunities within our local communities. The SMEs around, the schools around, the small offices, banks, telecom firms, manufacturing, health, law firms around. We should be able to identify the needs in this space and go on to meet it. By doing so we continuously improve our capability and also draw knowledge from the global pool. To succeed, you need to identify your market and carve your niche.

When we talk of IT, most people think its all about web and nairaland and naij and Ikeji. Its more than that. A computer scientist is a problem solver, a solution provider. Nairaland is more about meeting a need than creating a website. Heck, naij and Linda's blog are not the only news site.

Do we talk about crypts, security systems, expert systems, robotics, communications systems, artificial intelligence systems, parallel computing, compiler and OS development?

That's why a Computer Scientist or a similar post is useful in every field of human endeavour.

I feel you and I agree with you on everything you wrote.

mikeczay:
tanx. how hard is it to learn and how long will it take to start doin tinz

Not that hard and it wont take long. Like u can write a 'Hello World' program in about 2-3 minutes. However, if u want something more detailed and functional, that will take a while.

kaboninc:


I do not understand

I agree with you that we need to focus on the local market, but what part? For Nigeria's Social Forum Market, Nairaland has dominated. For Nigeria's Video Market, IrokoTv has dominated and for Nigeria's News Market, Naij has dominated. For Nigeria's Job Market, Jobberman has dominate it. So what part of Nigeria's Local Market should we focus on and then from there move global?

mikeczay:
pls i will like to know what it takes to be a programmer. how long to learn? can i use a mini laptop? how lucrative are apps? etc

It takes hardwork, patience and time to be a programmer.
Learning programming is a forever thing, because as days go by more programming languages are introduced in the game, just how phones keep evolving yearly.
As long your mini laptop can access website or can download & install software, you should be able too.
Please remember that there are Web Apps, Desktop Apps & Mobile Apps, so lets do our best not 2 join them 2getha. Apps are lucrative but there is so much competition that many app developers/programmers don't make enough money to live off of.

kaboninc:
I'll rather we work local and think global.

I strongly believe the local market it yet to be fully exploited and harnessed. This is were innovation comes in.

With the experience and knowledge gained, we become better placed to take on global challenges, competing globally with our peers.

Government and private institutions have a very important roles to play most especially in the areas of knowledge acquisition and patronage.

Yeah I believe you. What local content websites do we need? So far, we have:

1. Nairaland For Nigerian's Social Forums
2. Naij For Nigerian News
3. IrokoTv For Nigerian Videos.

Anymore

Link ~> http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-fake-facebook-likes-are-created-2015-3

A research team from McGill University's computer science school has published a paper that demonstrates a way of creating as many fake "Likes" on Facebook as you want without using a botnet or an army of spammers. The team says, in the paper published on March 19 this year, that Facebook was alerted to the flaws two years ago but loopholes on the site still remain.

The McGill team is hoping that by making the bugs public, advertisers — who rely on Likes and pay for them — and users will realise that some articles aren't actually as popular as the number of Likes would indicate.

The McGill paper will be of interest to Facebook spammers who, until now, have employed armies of low-paid workers in developing countries to create fake Facebook profiles. Questionable advertisers use these click farms to make themselves appear more popular than they actually are. Those click farms also pollute the fanbases of legitimate advertisers because the fake profiles add Likes to real brands in order to resemble real users. Advertisers who have paid to reach more people who might like their pages hate it, too.

Facebook has also been repeatedly sued by advertisers that claim their pages have seen too much click fraud. (There's a proposed class action case pending in a California federal appeals court, for instance). While click fraud is NOT the same thing as fake Likes, plaintiffs' lawyers are clearly interested in any information that might indicate that Facebook generates the appearance of something being clicked on when, in fact, it has not.

Facebook — which did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment — has battled fake likes for years. It has implemented a range of methods for detecting fake Likes. The company periodically weeds out fake Likes in mass purges. Obviously, the company has no interest in tolerating low-quality clicks. "We maniacally optimise around return on investment for advertisers," a source once told us about Facebook's attitude to click quality. Facebook has previously said:

We write rules and use machine learning to catch suspicious behavior that sticks out. When we catch fraudulent activity, we work to counter and prevent it, including blocking accounts and removing fake likes all at once. As our tools have become more sophisticated, we've contributed some of our spam-fighting technology to the academic community as well, in hopes of helping other companies combat similar problems. We want to help block spam no matter where it spreads.

The McGill method lets users create 100 fake Likes every 5 minutes by adding three essentially duplicate likes on every single post or shared article.

The McGill method simply takes advantage of Facebook's existing mechanisms, which if used the right way, produces multiple duplicate Likes on the same post:

Create a Facebook post with the target URL.
Share the post just created.
Add a comment to the post with arbitrary commenting content.
Delete the post.
Crucially, deleting a post does not reduce the number of likes displayed by the original web page on which that Like button sits

"This procedure can generate three fake likes a time. By repeating it, we manage to generate 20 fake likes per minute (without violating Facebook’s rate limit)," say the McGill authors, Xinye Lin, Mingyuan Xia, and Xue Liu. The team also says Facebook has been lax in fixing the flaws:

We reported these flaws to Facebook on Feb. 15th, 2013, and expressed our intention to collaborate on helping fix these flaws. The Site Integrity Team of Facebook replied on March 4th, 2013 acknowledging these flaws, quoting “... it’s an inherently insecure design. But right at the moment, they need to spend more engineering time than research collaboration (to fix them) ...”.

... However, we found that several of the original flaws we discovered more than two years ago are still out in the wild...

The procedure can be automated via Facebook's Like API with just 20 lines of Python code, the McGill teams says, referring to the way programmers are able to plug directly into Facebook's systems.

14. Web App Idea Number 14: A web app that pays people for commenting on marketers' brands.

14. Web App Idea Number 14: A web app that pays people for commenting on marketers' brands.

13. Web App Idea Number 13: A web app that lists all the bribes and corruption for each political candidate/party.

13. Web App Idea Number 13: A web app that lists all the bribes and corruption for each political candidate/party.

12. Web App Idea Number 12: A web app that gives people a place to stay in exchange for their time at a certain task, when they don't have money.

12. Web App Idea Number 12: A web app that gives people a place to stay in exchange for their time at a certain task, when they don't have money.

11. Web App Idea Number 11: A web app that provides a cybersecurity fence around anyone's blog/website from hacking.

11. Web App Idea Number 11: A web app that provides a cybersecurity fence around anyone's blog/website from hacking.

10. Web App Idea Number 10: A web app that can rescue kidnapped children by taking a picture of their faces and using face recognition algorithms to match their faces with the ones in a database.

10. Web App Idea Number 10: A web app that can rescue kidnapped children by taking a picture of their faces and using face recognition algorithms to match their faces with the ones in a database.

9. Web App Idea Number 9: A web app that allows anyone to enter the symptoms/signs of their sickness and the web app recommends solutions, as well as prevention of the sickness for the next time.

9. Web App Idea Number 9: A web app that allows anyone to enter the symptoms/signs of their sickness and the web app recommends solutions, as well as prevention of the sickness for the next time.

Twaci:
I have a very troublesome younger brother. He is our last born, about 3-4yrs, and always manages to get on everyone's nerves, one way or the other.

Whenever he gets on my mum's bad side, she would beat him and he would come running to me. I would ask him what he did wrong, admonish him and place his head on my laps. Then, I would sing his fav. song (My bonnie) to him while I tap him to sleep. Then he would wake up happy and ready to 'find' another person's trouble.

Well yesterday, I got into a row with my mum. We exchanged words and got slapped. In tears, I ran to my room and my little bro followed me.

He sat beside me for sometime and then asked softly, "An-twaci....." (Mind u, he is the one responsible for my moniker), "....what did you do?".

I stared back dumbly. I couldn't tell him. So I settled with, "I spoke back to mummy. Its a very bad thing to do".

He nodded, then tapped his small laps, "Lie down".

I stifled a surprised smile and obeyed gently knowing that my full weight would hurt him, "Okay".

Then he said, "Don't talk back at mummy, u hear?". I nodded, "Okay".

To my further surprise, he tapped my head gently and sang "My bonnie".

I smiled and feigned sleep cause I knew he wouldn't stop till I had slept. When he was sure I had 'slept-off', he dozed off in the same position.

This experience taught me a lot about a child's love and I thought I should share it. Children learn from the way u treat them, either good or bad. How do u treat them? (Food for thought).

NB: I apologized to mumsi and we are good now.

Do recount your experiences with kids (yours children or not), let's learn from the 'ants'.

Nice one. I love this story.

8. Web App Idea Number 8: A web app platform that allows web pages and files to be ran on local and intercity mesh networks instead of the internet in order to minimize or save internet data cost.

8. Web App Idea Number 8: A web app platform that allows web pages and files to be ran on local and intercity mesh networks instead of the internet in order to minimize or save internet data cost.

7. Web App Idea Number 7: A web app that allows people to hire anyone for any job for only 5000 Naira. So like lets say that I want to wash my car, I can hire someone for 5000 Naira. Or lets say that I need to wash my clothes, I can hire for 5000 Naira. Or lets say that I need someone to drive me somewhere, I can hire them for 5000 Naira. Like Fiverr for jobs.

7. Web App Idea Number 7: A web app that allows people to hire anyone for any job for only 5000 Naira. So like lets say that I want to wash my car, I can hire someone for 5000 Naira. Or lets say that I need to wash my clothes, I can hire for 5000 Naira. Or lets say that I need someone to drive me somewhere, I can hire them for 5000 Naira. Like Fiverr for jobs.

6. Web App Idea Number 6: A web app that allows you, restaurants and/or stores to sell leftover foods or trade them for something better.

6. Web App Idea Number 6: A web app that allows you, restaurants and/or stores to sell leftover foods or trade them for something better.

5. Web App Idea Number 5: A web app that allows you to take college/school/university exams and tests online, whenever you are sick or out of the city.

5. Web App Idea Number 5: A web app that allows you to take college/school/university exams and tests online, whenever you are sick or out of the city.

Link ~> http://simpleprogrammer.com/2015/03/23/the-ultimate-list-of-programming-books/

Quite often I am asked about the top programming books that I’d recommend all software developers should read.

I’ve finally decided to put together a list of the programming books that I find most beneficial and that I think every programmer should read.

Now, just like my Ultimate List of Developer Podcasts, this is my list, so I get to make the rules. (Which means I get to advertise my book at the top of this list.)

4. Web App Idea Number 4: A web app or converter that allows electronics to run on internet data, when there is no electricity.