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gloryman91:
Don't misquote him and don't misguide Muslims. Bro.

Did you read or you are just quick to defend?

How did I misquote him?

How am i misguiding muslims?

Whats your point?

Following your logic, it is also not permissible to treat snake bikes since the anti-venom is derived from snakes.

This implies that anyone who is bitten by a snake must be left to die a slow and painful death, according to your logic.

Thanks for such a great insight.

namikaze:
valid argument, but what about something like documentdb provided by both aws and azure, they do the same thing as mongodb but are generally faster, cheaper and easier to setup?

Same as firestore.

Non relational databases have their own peculiarities and should only be deployed to projects that benefit immensely from such structures. I don’t quite get why i would deploy a mongo db instance only to now hack at it with mongoose.

I think firestore is the cheapest of their bunch but I might be wrong. I am more skewed towards psql.

I want to be able to ‘see’ the data in my head as i write the codes.

Unbiased1:
The kind of game you are asking him to build (Biafran war game) is not the kind he can build at his level now. A war game is like a Battle Royale game and requires 3d artists, programmers, knowledge of gaming engines, high end PC with high-end graphics cards etc. I'm not sure the op is financially buoyant enough for such project. If you know how much time he will spend creating the models alone if he decides to go solo in the game making process, you will pity him. Do you know much 3d artists sell their works or how much they will charge you to join your team of designers? What of the amount of money required to purchase the necessary hardware and the monthly cost of electricity to create the game. Game development is not easy especially when you want a high class game like a war game.

You are very right.

It is expensive, not only in terms of cash but in skills, time and commitments. But no one says it should be his resources.

He needs to build a prototype. A small part of the gameplay that represents the concepts and ideas. This needs to be of very high quality.

He then can seek for funding to expand on this idea. He would need a business strategy to ensure that investors get returns.

There are angel investors everywhere who are ready to fund viable projects.

I have seen guys with just a laptop and nothing else get funding for their projects.

The most painful part of all this would be the day someone launches this project with less resources than what he has and he regrets not even trying.

namikaze:
What do you think?
The mongodb hype seems to have died down overall. These days there seems to be more better (arguably), cheaper, easier alternatives coming up, usually offered by cloud providers.
would you rather use mongodb for a new project or any of the newer dynamodb, cockroach db, cosmos e.t.c databases ?

Relational databases are time tested and are actually the more practical option in many instances. Imagine the headache involved in deploying a banking app with mongodb.

I choose distributed relational databases for most of my deploys now due to their resilience. They are set up and forget systems with automated back ups and guaranteed resilience.

Mongodb is still a great choice for projects with many sub data types like articles and comments. Mongodb would work well with a site like Nairaland for example if Seun plans on upgrading the comments to allow upvotes and downvotes, like in Reddit.

ReactJs:
Ahh you're confusing me for someone else obviously .

LOL

ReactJs:
Thank you. You cannot get to the top based off of technical competence alone. I don't know what kind of organisations people on this forum work for or how large and diverse their team is. I told the other guy in the thread that, after you've established a certain level of competence, you soft skills will matter more. It's just the way the world worlds.. unless you want to keep jumping from one company to another all your professional life.

You are using your alt.

LOL

ReactJs:
"The OP surmised that people should please their managers to get favors, which could be positive recommendations. "

Lol that's what you understood from what i wrote? You're a funny person and one of the reasons why i chose not to indulge you the other day is that i saw you definitely missed the point and you're still missing the point.

Reactjs?

How many monikers do you have?

LOL

GloriousGbola:
The way to impress your manager is to make him/her look good in front of management. That way when your manager advances he/she will vouch for you.

This assumes your manager is a human being and not an arsheole tho. I have seen some really fked up human beings in mgt.

Are you working for the manager or working for the organization?

You have your KPI, your manager has his own KPI. Deliver on your KPI and let him deliver his.

When everyone delivers on their KPIs, the organization has delivered.

Your model is a clusterfuck of different cults where gossips and backbiting reign and everyone sees the other as competition for the overfed manager’s patronage.

GloriousGbola:
This is the worst advice you can give anyone

Technical competence gets you the job, emotional intelligence gets you ahead. This applies EVERYWHERE. Because you will always reach a point where it becomes about managing people to get results. If you cannot manage your boss, you will not be able to manage a team of subordinates.

Otherwise you will wind up bitter as you see people who are not particularly smart or intelligent get ahead.

Always follow the context.

The OP surmised that people should please their managers to get favors, which could be positive recommendations.

My response is to counter that.

This is not about people management and your points are way off from the context.

Many companies have failed because they had a culture of cult worship.

If you are good at your job, you would be valued. If you are not valued where you are, simply go to where your skills would be valued.

As a manager, I appreciate subordinates who can deliver on their JDs and KPIs more than those that are always telling me my new sneakers are the best Nike ever made.

There is a limit to where foot licking can take you.

YoungCabal:
First, you called me a php thing thinking I was a wordpress modder, hoping to bash me and start the usual php is dead argument but it seems you later noticed that I wasn't the average PHP guy when you saw my comment on building a linux distro and using gentoo linux as my default OS.

Now, you wasted time you would have used to do something better with your life to go through my old posts to say you will never step foot on a forum I didn't even mention in this thread

It only shows how frustrated you are by my refusal to engage you directly, I only interact with well minded persons, abeg shift !

First, you are just a php thing. Nothing bad with php or your choice but thats just you. You cannot see beyond your templates and scripts. This is why you see other projects as unreachable.

Secondly, i dont give a hoot if you use php or angel blood to write your codes. If you can deliver, thats all that matters. Just dont start feeling like other people cannot achieve what you have decided you cannot achieve.

Third, you know almost nothing about linux. If you can open your mouth waaaa to say linux should be profitable, then you really dont get it…no matter what you claim to use.

Except you are Linus Torvalds, your dick-wagging claims of using gentoo sounds so absurd and out of place that one begins to understand your inferiority complex .

There are over 600 active linux distros which were built by humans…not aliens. Anyone with time and skill can fork his own Linux and start tweaking. This does not give you Voltron or SuperTed powers.

You have a Nairaland clone with bad colors. Neon and black everywhere like a cheap brothel’s romp night. If i was commenting on that clone, you would have yanked me off for disagreeing with your myopic views. But here, only seun or the mods can yank me off.

Now, cry me a river mister CloneLand

QuoteJustOnce:
How can you be so sure, mate? What if he bought "backyard Nairaland stocks" from S3un ?

LOL.

Then he can kick my sorry ass out…

But he would need to first sell his Nairaland clone for ten ‘taosan’ naira.

YoungCabal:
One of the reasons I have refused to engage you in this thread is because you are too insultive and childish, shift abeg let people who are worth responding to see space, stop derailing my thread

You dont own this thread.

You see that your Nairaland clone that you built with bad colors, you can yank me off if i ever step my foot on it.

But you see this one created by Seun, you dont own one single pixel of it and i will comment anytime and on any thread.

I only dish it to people who think they have a monopoly of bluntness. You come at me, i slice you. It is how it is.

LittleBigDick:
I can build but I don't have the required graphics card that can build such for the moment

I think you need more CPU than GPU for development.

To build with Unreal Engine 5, you need a CPU with around 6 to 8 cores, clocked at 3ghz or better and less than 3 years old.

For GPU, any GPU that can play the game you are building should suffice.

You also need a lot of RAM, 16gb minimum but 32/64 ideal.

Cheap fast storage too.

You can read this article as it breaks it down better.

https://www.cgdirector.com/unreal-engine-system-requirements

YoungCabal:
That is why I said you are being unrealistic in the first place, you forget we are Nigerians and we don't have much privileges like the Americans and Chinese do when it comes to building, from electricity to man power, over here, you can never get it free, people have families to feed and bills to pay, they can't waste their time building free things left and right just for fun sake.

Ask yourself, why hasn't there been a Nigerian linux distro for many years now ? Not like there aren't people that can pull if off, I for one have walked that path before and use gentoo linux as my main OS till date, it's not just profitable ! How will you feel seeing people building tiny stuff and making money while you remain poor building harder stuff for people to use for free ?

You want linux to be profitable?

Who is this one?

The fact that all of us meet on Nairaland does not imply we all come from the same street. Yes there is poor electricity but has that ever stopped anyone from doing anything?

Manpower, yes. As long as we have people like you who second-guess their abilities and continually play second fiddle, manpower would be a challenge not only in Nigeria but anywhere you go.

If you cannot meet your bills, sorry. Building ‘free things’ is the best way to expand but how can you know when you want to make your own linux profitable.

You have been pessimistic from the start, claiming it is not possible, yet Nigerians are getting funding almost everyday for creative ideas.

Nonsense and ingredients

LittleBigDick:
Not necessarily

An average team can build a AAA game and make it foss thereby allowing anyone to contribute to the game

If I were to do something like this , it'll be foolish of me to launch it as a start-up when I don't have funds, I'll launch it as a indie games dev team first or a non profit sort like Linux

I would launch it as an open source project first and build a stable version first then leave it for peeps all over the world to contribute

Many companies are looking for open source projects to fund but sadly there aren't enough

Once I get a story teller and writer, I'll definitely build this

If you can build a high definition prototype with realistic scenery, (Arma standard or more), i can get you your story writer.

YoungCabal:
I'm just starting html, dey go abeg let people who are fit for the discussion participate

Remember to start common sense as well.

LittleBigDick:
Hoping to achieve that with my team on a naija rpg game

Check RogueRavens on github


We're still new and only three people on board

Great

I will check it out.

Thumbs up

Edit:
Seen. Some of the games were built using C.

As i said earlier, i know next to nothing about games.

Considered using Unreal Engine 5?

PUBG and a host of many games were built with Unreal.

YoungCabal:
Abeg shift, you are obviously no fit for this discussion, allow others to contribute

Says the runt who thinks coding games require angelic dust and is unattainable in Nigeria.

Just because you are a generic php ‘thing’ doesn’t mean the world must revolve around the vacuum in your head.

If you cannot, dont say others can’t.

YoungCabal:
they are not being realistic, such projects require very large teams and money to execute, we are talking about what an average startup can build and make revenue not elephant project that can take years to pull off

You are simply a micro minded person then.

I know almost nothing about game programming but i have seen prototypes built by guys here in Abu Dhabi which is amazing. No team.

People are thinking outside the box daily, pushing boundaries and you are calling our ideas elephant projects.

What do you want? A project you can spool up on wordpress and start making your toro-kobo google ads money?

If you dont have the capacity to push, dont try to slpw another person down.

You can go ahead building your fintech with its massive glut and pray for success.

mayemaye:
Good afternoon Sir

Just want to ask do you develop the app UI yourself or there are pips who do that while you just import and write the codes or how does it work in both small and big firms. Hope you understand me Sir

In a team, there are guys who design and send the designs for approval. Heads of units will meet on thr designs and approve.

Lots of considerations are put into the designs including UX, os version target (Android 5.0 or 10.0), market demographics, feedback on previous iterations etc

When final design is casted, the mobile app design team is informed and they build accordingly, interacting with the backend as they progress.

Tests are conducted and codes approved bit by bit till final iteration. This is then committed for release.

For small one man teams, you do everything yourself or you can outsource some parts.

satandeterrible:
Won't fly.
Nigerian government will clamp down on it if they don't like the narrative.

Will generate sentiments amongst Easterners, South South and South West.

Just can't fly. Nigerian civil war is a very sensitive topic and any game built about it will face severe backlash.

Why build in Nigeria?

The clampdown assumption is also unfounded. There have been many films about the war. No clampdown.

Clampdown is only possible if the developers are dumb enough to portray a biased mindset.

Tell a story, allow combatants from either side to win or lose depending purely on their military scores. In a 50v50 game for example, when the first 50 has killed all in the second 50, they have won, irrespective of whether they are FGN or BFN.

tensazangetsu20:
Such game will be very expensive to make sha.

Very.

And i am hoping the future dev would not skimp on quality or bombard it with rubbish google ads.

I am ready to be on the advisory board for any dev thinking in that direction

LittleBigDick:
Nigerian games not Western games
Imagine you did a game on the Biafra civil war
Shit will sell like mad I swear


Another one is AI

AI is limited to the west mostly
Imagine if we had Siri alternative for Nigerians
It can speak every major languages of Africans

Every single word in this post makes sense.

I for one would pay to play a highly detailed game on the biafran war. For years, the dev would still be milking the concept.

Raylight2:
I am developing a website and I think I made a mistake using mongoDB instead of MySQL. I said that because of the pricing when it comes to hosting. I am confused on what to do now. The site would have thousands of users when launched so I'd need a large storage. I have checked Atlas, AWS, DigitalOcean. their pricing drives cold down my spine. What do you suggest I do please?

If you can adapt to psql, consider using cockroach db.

It is a cloud based distributed SQL database. Free tier is generous.

I am currently building a project with an expected 250,000 MAU and we are using cockroach.

Ilearning:
Please i need more enlightenment if relocating to Turkey is a good idea from Nigeria? Is there enough work for software developer in Turkey? Is Turkey friendly for non-muslims and Africans? I will really appreciate good responses. Thanks

Turkey has an inflation crisis currently.

Language is also a limitation.

The most important part is are you going there to look for a job or you have your clients already and you simply need a sweet climate.

If you are looking for a job, i would advise you try to get a job first before you travel. Just google ‘get jobs in xxxxx’ where xxxx is your location of choice.

If you have your means of making money and just need a refreshing place, you can look into nomad visa or freelance visa offerings. You can expand your search to other countries. Pack a small bag and explore. It is fun.

Dont go to Turkey with just the hope of getting a good job and with little funds to take care of yourself.

visaclick:
That phone is dead already, just get another one asap. That's how all iPhone 7 dies including mine 3years ago.. It usually starts with you replacing the battery up to like 3times before that boot issue finally kills it. I lost important work data that cost me millions. Since then I never used an iPhone again and I'm not sure I will, maybe as a 3rd phone but not will I trust any useful data on an iPhone again coz till date I still suffer the loss.
iPhone is for the new generation, u can't find someone who value his data using only an iPhone, I haven't. It's for show off, nothing gets done with it

All iPhone 7? Really?

You dont lose data on an iPhone if you know what you are doing. Heard of iCloud?

If your data is iso important, you back it up.

Your last paragraph surmises your circle

okpaire2005:
He didn't say it was html and css job he said he paid a tutor to help him learn programming which may be a python or JavaScript project but he didn't express it that he got paid $400 to build something with just HTML and CSS he even said that that's not programming

The OP is a storyteller (i am being polite).

He was careful enough not to even mention what the job scope was. He only came here to tell us he got a programming job and was able to deliver whilst not being a programmer.

He thinks he is smart and concludes by inferring that anyone who cannot do what he did is not smart.

When he was asked probing questions, he dodged and refused to answer.

Go through his other posts on Nairaland. He was in the barracks one time, he was in a boarding school another time. Another time, he was also learning computer studies with secondary school female students. He is many things.

Today, he is a programmer.

ReactJs:
So there's something i've been meaning to share with you guys pertaining to getting a raise and or promotion at work.

Most times in a workplace you see raises and promotions get handed to people that other employees might feel they're underserving of it. Sadly it almost doesn't matter how much of a hardworker you are or if you always work longer hours than everybody if you're not strategically positioning yourself.

A lot of times, it boil downs to if you have someone(mostly your manager) speaking on your behalf to the people that makes the decision concerning who gets either a raise or promotion and who doesn't. If your manager doesn't feel compelled enough to fight for you in your absence where it matters, you have a problem.

You need to focus only on impressing, in this context, your manager. Your manager HAS TO LIKE YOU. I cannot emphasize enough the advantages of this. conversely, i also cannot imagine the disadvantages that comes with your manager not liking you.

You just need to how find to become a likeable person and get the important people in your organization on your side.

Become better at the job.

Dont give a hoot about mid management liking you if you deliver on your KPIs.

If you are really good and they try to hogwash you with this rubbish bootlicking, take your skills to another place.

I have seen people who follow this your mantra and they stink professionally.

Sleekcode:
Truthcoder food don ready.

Try hard to secure 10 of this type of project before the end of the year and you may finally be able to upgrade your GenZ Laptop.


Hurry before that other guy takes your spot.

Thanks for the recommendation.

This is really a good year for us. I wont forget you.

Do you still collect the normal 1% agency fee?

airsaylongcome:
Does the ₦50k include hosting, integration with payment processor, uploading of items, training and post go-live support?

Pages are dynamic. There are users too so there must be a database plus a form of backend and user authentication.

The 50k budget should cover everything. Another 50k would get mobile app on android and ios

QuoteJustOnce:
Stop wasting your time, he's capping!

I suspected that right from the moment he said he knew HTML.

He even made a blog post about it.

He was given 3 months to deliver a phantom HTML project for $400. Was he re-writing Wikipedia?