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Properties / Re: My Neighbour Is Connecting To My Generator!! by truthCoder: 9:24pm On May 05, 2023
dawnomike:
If his connection is not disturbing your power output needed in your apartment, just let it slide

Which kind of nonsense simpy attitude is this?
Programming / Re: Which Is The Best And Budget-friendly Laptop For Coding? by truthCoder: 9:22pm On May 05, 2023
GREATIGB0MAN:
Any MAC 2012 upwards will do for coding... Not gaming, strictly coding.

Avoid 2016,2017,2018 MacBook Pros

It has annoying screen issues ... I learnt the hard way.

2015 is the sweet affordable spot.

I am thinking of buying an extra one, remove the battery connector and just keep in a wardrobe in case my current one dies.
Programming / Re: A Thread To Discuss All Things Fintech In Nigeria by truthCoder: 6:23pm On May 05, 2023
y3mi:

TruthCoder, muchos gracias!

I just came up on that thread and I figured him for a legit seeker, until I came about your replies to him.

I’m just simply Wowed!

I respect your experience, knowledge base and invaluable insight into the working of this murky tech industry in Nigeria. Also, Bloomsbury and a host of others. I hail you guys!

If you haven’t made that thread to warn others about the dangers of falling into the cunning traps of hawks disguised as VC reps, please kindly do as it would help a lot of founders and coders. I’m very wary of tech vampires too; those who have no coding nor entrepreneurial skillsets but have mastered the craft of beguiling the unsuspecting into divulging ideas only to go pitch it to potential funders, comes back to hire you to build your very own thing. A lot of them exist as well in alluring variety.

I just emailed you on Proton.

Kindly response.

Thanks so much.

I didn’t get the email

truthcoder at protonmail dot com
Programming / Re: Vacancy For Developers (URGENT) by truthCoder: 4:24pm On May 05, 2023
Somamezee:
The purpose of the age requirement is for easier work collaboration; and as for the salary, when contacted for a chat/interview the team will tell you that budget which is within the obtainable market value, But there's a possibility of budget adjustment by the client to suit the talent's needs but now imagine putting a range and using it to chase the potential talent away.

In tech, age does not matter. If you are afraid of calling your employees brother buhari, you can have a company wide policy of everyone by first name or preferred nickname.

Don’t use age to push away good hires or make it a factor that limits you to employing from a small pool.

I wish you the best in your startup.

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Programming / Re: Which Is The Best And Budget-friendly Laptop For Coding? by truthCoder: 9:20am On May 05, 2023
fastanddubious:

You've used this stuff so much that you can sight it from afar grin grin

Besides the obvious structure, no Nigerian would write that $500 usd is a budget for a cheap laptop. A real human would have recommended used laptops which are in the 200 usd range

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Programming / Re: Which Is The Best And Budget-friendly Laptop For Coding? by truthCoder: 7:27am On May 05, 2023
This was written by chatGPT.
Religion / Re: . by truthCoder: 2:05am On May 05, 2023
Redoilbeta:
Hello, Does ones Personal Decision being an Atheist, Free thinker / Humanist Warrants family and Friends Withdrawing there Assistance / Help and Supports?

They said, I stopped believing in the god that Provides for them to assist me,then I should go and seek help from atheistism I Practised now.

I Practiced Christianity before, Now I'm an Atheist. Pls. The reason I Changed to be an Atheist is not the main reason for this thread.
I'm not the first and I'm not going to be the last, It happens. reasons best known to Individuals.

There are situations Atheists turned to Christians, Muslims,... Muslims Converts to Christianity. Christians Changed to Muslims, Babalawo/ Ogboni Fraters Becomes a Strong Evangelist / Pastors.. Everyone with his Personal Reasons. Not on here to Judge.

My Questions is that why must family and friends became so Annoyed, took it Personal To withdraw all there Help, Sack Me from Work,insults,Bully me.

Where are the Atheist in this Forum Pls. I need your Encouragement and Words.


My advice is this:
Your personal convictions are personal especially when you have dependencies.

Believers are known to be an irrational lot. They believe in stories and are hurt when you try to let them know their stories have no basis.

So what you should have done is keep your views to yourself or within those you can really trust until you become fully independent of them.

Now , if you really depend on their help, what you can do to salvage this is a form of deception. Act like you have realized your mistakes, go back to becoming a believer and get them all into play. The more you can act like RMD, the better. They will be more than happy to start helping again. Afterall, they are believers and they would believe anything.

If you don’t really depend on them, they can keep their help and you move on.

A life lesson is this: in real life, never rub it onto others matters of religion. They might hold a lifelong grudge against you that you might not know exists until you need them. Keep your religious views to your self and conform to your societal views. It is a survival strategy

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Family / Re: My Ex Run Away With My 2 Kids Since 2019 Please Help by truthCoder: 12:38am On May 05, 2023
sonjohn994:
Hello Everyone, Please I need your help, I have been having been depressed and Hypertensive all because of this issue. Please I will appreciate if I can get help from here before I die in silent .

My Ex wife packed out 2019 when we hard misunderstanding and she took my 2 kids with her, since then have not set my eyes on them.
We talked on phone for some time while I kept begging her to give me the opportunity to at least contribute to their upbringing of my children. But to my greatest surprise all her family disagreed and asked her to relocate and change number. All the family that I have their numbers did the same by changing their lines too. I have not been a happy man since then.

Please I will appreciate if anyone can link me up to any organization that can help me. The last family I spoke to did not change line, She only blocked me and she is the one I have been sending money to until I requested to see them. She said if I cant stop asking to see them I should stop sending the money . and i have to stop sending money into her account.

Please Nairalander Help a Brother.my Investigation trace them to IBAFO. The woman owns a school around the area and they attend her school. Please anyone that can help to link me to right Authority should pls help.

Thank you and God bless


For her family and everyone to want to avoid you, you must be a very bad person.

You didn’t say what you did to make her leave. You just said ‘a disagreement’. Did you beat her to stupor?

In her whole family, there is no single person who can vouch for you? They all had to change details all just to avoid you? You must be a very dangerous fellow.

If she felt safe around you, there is no need for relocation even if you separate. Her safety is why she has chosen to sacrifice her known life for an unknown one all because of your potential propensity to something that she is afraid of.

You have been out of their life for 4 years and now you want to come back in?

Just so you know, there is a special department in the Nigeria Police manned by women who hate men. It is called the domestic violence unit. If she reports you to that unit and there is evidence to prove that you are stalking her to cause harm, your bread don carry butter from bakery be dat.

Cheers

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Programming / Re: iOS & Android Os Developer Needed (remote Job) by truthCoder: 5:17pm On May 04, 2023
airsaylongcome:
Why do you keep spelling iOS and Android OS as i0S and Android 0s

😬

1 d0nt under5taNd.
Programming / Re: Want To Create A Chat App Almost Like Whatsapp by truthCoder: 10:42am On May 04, 2023
shegzhkn:


You work with JS, I was thinking Django for the backend.
Typescript actually. Fully typed with proper definitions. I dont write production codes in js.

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Programming / Re: Want To Create A Chat App Almost Like Whatsapp by truthCoder: 10:38am On May 04, 2023
shegzhkn:

For the frontend are you gonna build natively or go cross platform and for backend system what would you use for that ??

Cross platform.

Flutter and Node.js.
Programming / Re: Tech Don Cast! by truthCoder: 8:59pm On May 03, 2023
Sndfrank:
TOPIC: Artificial World*

*

*Be Rapturable. Shalom!*
E be like say you miss direction. This is programming section. To go to Religion, turn left and follow the narrow path.

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Programming / Re: Help Me Review My Startup Idea by truthCoder: 7:16pm On May 03, 2023
Bloomsbury:


Thanks for all your input. Am not trying to compete anyone here whether doordash or heaven dash. Like I said I wanted to maximize my best time studying at Georgia Tech. I don't have hopes of it being a billion dollars idea. Am not planning on raising VC funds for it at all. All am looking for if it can be a profitable idea I can be using to make passive income while studying, and something I can graduate and keep working on and sponsor myself as for H1B.

My goal is to build, make passive income till I graduate and sell the company on Microacquire, simple!!!

The startup I will be working on to possibly be a billion dollar Company is an AI bypasser similar to Conch ai


Denigrating established competition wont help you.

One of the key requirements of a business is the SWOT analysis. You must identify your threats to business and understand how to mitigate them. Being heady is not a solution.

If you are not looking for VCs, then you hopefully have enough funds to legally register, insure, promote and manage the proposed business in USA.
Programming / Re: Please I Need Like A Work Group/mentor In Tech by truthCoder: 3:55pm On May 03, 2023
clarkmos15:


Thanks for your input sir,
1. i stated that i needed the courses i can go for online
2. i also stated that i needed a mentor, obviously, there is no "free" programmer, just someone that can answer questions and put me through
Anyways thank you sir

Use chatGPT. That should mentor you for free.

Anything beyond that, be ready to pay for time.

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Programming / Re: Please I Need Like A Work Group/mentor In Tech by truthCoder: 3:45pm On May 03, 2023
yrhuhfy113:


GOD DOESN'T SEND PEOPLE TO WORK FOR FREE ALWAYS..... your Godsent may be a PAID CLASS community.


STOP LOOKING FOR FREE THINGS..... FREE PEOPLE TO USE.....


pls if you want FREE... go on YOUTUBE AND CONSISTENTLY FOLLOW CHANNELS THAT WILL TEACH YOU PROGRAMMING.... that's the best you will get.

For you to find a DEEP PROGRAMMER who will be FREE FOR YOU, he must be a fake guy or jobless...


This is the age of SELF TAUGHT EDUCATION.......... go to youtube... you will find TOTALLY FREE COURSES THERE. if you cant do it then you;re just looking for someone whose time you can waste

Perfect response.

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Programming / Re: Tech Don Cast! by truthCoder: 10:03am On May 03, 2023
Domainer1999:

Are you telling me an AI can't be develop to take care of that?

Let me ask you the following questions:

Have you managed or have been part of a large code repo before?

Have you used AI in code analysis, reviews and maintenance before?

Have you seen real life code issues on production codebase before (like say an attack ) and been part of the team that resolved it?

Have you written testable codes before?

Have you tested codes before?

Have you been part of a devops team before?

Finally, will you as a CTO guarantee that your codebase is in safe hands with an AI and thus sack your whole tech team?

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Programming / Re: Help Me Review My Startup Idea by truthCoder: 9:58am On May 03, 2023
Check out https://www.doordash.com

They have a similar concept already in play in the US.

Do you have a USP that is different from theirs?

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Programming / Re: Tech Don Cast! by truthCoder: 9:51am On May 03, 2023
Domainer1999:
Is this the time you'll advise someone to jump into a tech career and dedicate some years toward, and guaranteed that they can't be replace by AIs?



Maybe they should all start planting cashew nuts then.

All these badly written php and react codes on the world wide web, would would maintain them when the old hands retire?

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Programming / Re: Tech Don Cast! by truthCoder: 9:48am On May 03, 2023
OP

You are just one self-opinionated piece.

Different people have given you their opinions on this subject but to you, everyone is wrong.

So its not a tool? What is it? A god?
Programming / Re: Tech Don Cast! by truthCoder: 9:29am On May 03, 2023
Domainer1999:


cc Tensazangetsu20, truthcoder,
Do you remember the four-figure table in secondary school? That’s AI.

Tractors didn’t replace farmers.
The calculator did not replace math professors.

Tools dont replace their users. They only make their user’s life better if the user is ready to adapt to the dynamics.

AI has made me a better programmer by being an assistive tool.

I start every new project by giving it a brief and asking for its own view of the structure. We iterate over the structure together and in few minutes i have a starting plan.

If my employer decides to use AI to code by himself, i wish him luck.

The only farmers that tractors took out of employment were the ones who insisted that technology is bad and stuck to the old means.

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Programming / Re: Want To Create A Chat App Almost Like Whatsapp by truthCoder: 8:38am On May 03, 2023
airsaylongcome:
This is a formidable task o. The mobile app isn't the only part that you need to think about. There server infrastructure for something like this is going to cost a very tidy sum. I know one person who tried this using the entire Signal app codebase. It is damned expensive

Signal is decentralized and unnecessary.

There are three main considerations:
Database: Three DBs recommended. First is a redis cache for current messages. Messages that have been delivered to the recipient’s device are moved to a low latency, affordable and document based DB like MongoDB, Firestore and Amazon’s document DB. User immutable data are stored in a separate cheaper archive DB. All DBs are synced together to make retrievals seamless. For backups, we simply use the Google drive API.
Compute: message encryption and decryption is resource heavy. I would suggest using the user’s device for this instead of handling it from the server side. Its even a good selling point.
Webhooks: This is critical for instant app states (typing, delivered, read etc). The alternative of using timeout is extremely expensive, a sign of inexperience and not worthwhile. Good webhooks integration with a lean state manager.

With these 3 sorted, it can be built cheaply. If the OP has at least $1000 for my fees, he can DM. i will deliver an app close to WhatsApp with a backend on AWS or GCP for easy scalability.

If the OP is the generic ‘i have N50,000’ that abound on Nairaland, he can take my free points and look for someone who will build it for him.

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Agriculture / Re: How To Start Garri Business With Just N50,000 by truthCoder: 4:59pm On May 02, 2023
imma2real:
Hello house,

Pls I urgently need contact of good Garri producers outside Lagos or within for serious purchases of Garri in bags. ASAP.
Thank you

Contact or whatsapp me
08078685090


Potential scammer spotted.

He just registered to post this.

You have been warned guys.
Agriculture / Re: So Much Cassava Can Deliver To Nigeria As A Nation by truthCoder: 4:58pm On May 02, 2023
imma2real:
Hello house

Pls I urgently need contact of good Garri producers outside Lagos or within for serious purchases of Garri in bags. ASAP.
Thank you

Contact or whatsapp
08078685090)


Potential scammer spotted.

He just registered to post this.

You have been warned guys.
Programming / Re: How Can I Use My Tech Knowledge To Develop My Hometown(a Small Town) by truthCoder: 4:57pm On May 02, 2023
imma2real:
Hello house

Pls I urgently need contact of good Garri producers outside Lagos or within for serious purchases of Garri in bags. ASAP.
Thank you

Contact or whatsapp
08078685090)


Come off it.

Scam alert

You just registered account to post this.

Nobody should transact with this person.

You have been warned.

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Programming / Re: Is There Any Other Active Forums Like Nairaland In Nigeria by truthCoder: 10:13pm On Apr 30, 2023
airsaylongcome:


That means NO NEED na. Cos to cater for tecno and item segment and provide all of that for free for a niche with very doubtful revenue means throw good money into a bottomless pit.

How does Reddit, Quora, and the likes stay profitable?. I’m on Reddit a lot and while they have a subscription model, the free model has very covert looking ads peppered all over the Home feed

There is a YouTube video i would recommend. It is by Moon and it is titled “Discord: The most evil business in the world”.

It is a good watch and answers a lot of these questions and more.

It will also reveal why Elon Musk bought Twitter at such an over valued amount.

Thats the real game.

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Programming / Re: Is There Any Other Active Forums Like Nairaland In Nigeria by truthCoder: 10:07pm On Apr 30, 2023
YoungCabal:
Yeah, it was a temporal design, the main features were actually distinct. Seun blocked me on nairaland when I posted the link under his tweet, he later unblocked me though. Aside that, the new horizontal line added in between the featured links on nairaland frontpage was inspired by the new nairaland clone I built.

I don't think someone who just completed html and css training, can build both the frontend and backend alone like I did, you seem to be forgetting nairaland has a backend ?

I have built a theme of the same nairaland clone and a featured links mod for the simple machine forum software and sold in the past years, I later built the last one from scratch just to have total control over the underlying API.

I'm currently building something else, maybe I'll get to share it here when I'm done hahaha

What i meant was that a lot of nairalanders who just learnt HTML have tried to replicate Nairaland in the past. Many of their site ashes are still littered in different posts here and there.

My feedback on your project was on the colors. I liked the black background and not the neon green fonts.

Looking forward to the new project.

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Programming / Re: Is There Any Other Active Forums Like Nairaland In Nigeria by truthCoder: 9:09pm On Apr 30, 2023
airsaylongcome:


So I totally agree with your first point. The only way to break in these days is via a marketing blitz. Meaning big money.

The Mastodon v Twitter and Signal v WhatsApp comparison I don’t totally agree with. I’m very active on Mastodon and actually prefer it to Twitter as it’s more sane and less “commercial”. Granted most Nigerians will know next to nothing about Mastodon but it is successful, it’s not yet mainstream but is good enough to be mentioned.

Signal on the other hand are a bunch of idiots. Compare Telegram and WhatsApp for a fair comparison. Even as successful as it is, WhatsApp, has very limited penetration in the US. I can’t remember where, but somewhere in Asia, Viber is king.
But yeah, very valid points you made. I’ve toyed with the idea of a forum using lemmy or the now archived open source Reddit codebase. Even looked at Discourse and Flarum. But to go against NL, you need that marketing budget. Loads of it

To add to the marketing bulaba, a cost vs benefit analysis of devoting a kuda kind of marketing budget to a business like Nairaland would need serious review. How much can such a business return both in the long and short run before the costs turn into a permanent drain.

Nairaland can afford to be overly flat as it is because it has a very minimal cost to revenue ratio. Nairaland does zero adverts, doesn’t have a customer care center and doesn’t even run a proper office. These costs would have to be borne by the new competition.

The disruptive idea must offer what Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Nairaland combined does not currently offer. It must be free to use. It must not have annoying adverts and the average dumb nairaland user must be able use it without asking for help. It must also load fast, consume less data, be able to work seamlessly on the crappy itel and tecno phones of most users and must retain at least a little sense of user privacy.

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Programming / Re: Is There Any Other Active Forums Like Nairaland In Nigeria by truthCoder: 7:03pm On Apr 30, 2023
airsaylongcome:


Why did you shut it down? Also was it Nairaland clone (copying the “outdated” NL look) or was it a more modern forum software like Discourse aor Reddit?

@OP,
I’m also intrigued why there aren’t many more successful Nigerian forums. NL and LIB were the vanguard respectively for forum and blog. And while many other successful blogs have sprung up after LIB, the same cannot be said for forums

I remember the project.

It was a clone with black background and green colored fonts.

There have been hundreds of new Nairalands springing up every time someone completes his HTML and CSS trainings. Many have even bought domain names and launched but they all fail.

The failure reasons are many but i have identified some few:

First, you need promotions to push the new site to the potential users. This cost money and many dont have. “Organic growth “ is a long gone possibility for new projects except something viral happens to it. You have to pay to play. Ask PayDay and Kuda wassap.

Second, the founder should not be greedy. Look at seun, despite the traffic, advertising is minimal. This makes using nairaland enjoyable. If the founder cannot survive without ads, he can’t overthrow nairaland.

Third is the unique offering deficit. If you are not bringing something new to the table, why would new users sign in. Mastodon, BlueSky vs Twitter. Signal vs WhatsApp. If you don’t come with gifts, users will leave.

There are many others but..

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Programming / Re: Pls Help: How Do I Stop A Music When Another Starts (html, Css, Javascript) by truthCoder: 6:00pm On Apr 30, 2023
GREATIGB0MAN:
This is why ChatGpt was built.

Your No1 trusted companion/helper besides a dog

Fee months ago, you were against chatGPT.

Now you recommend it.
Romance / Re: Cleric Shows How His Niqabi Wife Eats In Public Without Removing Her Face Cover by truthCoder: 3:52pm On Apr 30, 2023
Reminderz:

lol talking about terrorism, non Muslims were the propagators and instigators of most wars in history... go and check your facts... and besides the religion doesn't condone violence!! anyone carrying out an acts of terrorism with the name of Islam is not Muslim period! Islam is the only religion which says whoever kills a soul (anybody at all) unjustly, it's as though he has killed all mankind, and whoever saves a soul, it's as though he has saved all mankind... Qur'an 5v32

if they are bad as they claim and as the media deceived you to believe, why is the religion growing in terms of new members and converts? isn't it supposed to be the opposite? if it was bad, why are people leaving their religion for it?

You either know too little about islam, or you are completely brainwashed to believe the stories you have been told or you are a pathetic liar.

The foundation of islam is terror. Islam was spread even by Mohammed through wars. They invaded other settlements and threatened to kill them all if they don’t accept islam. The ones that accepted were added to their armies, the ones that refused were enslaved.

There was massive pillaging, rape, beheadings etc committed by these jihadists.

Apart from the current crises in Ukraine, almost all the other crises in the world currently has islamic roots. ALL.

Look at Nigeria. The whole of the north (a region dominated by islam) has the highest insecurity, poverty and backwardness indicators of the whole country. Out of school children there is alarming. Many citizens are refugees in our country all because some people believe in Islam.

The whole world would be more peaceful and development would have gone way past current levels if islam did not exist.

Every human has a right to believe whatever or whomever they choose to. All muslims have a right to believe in Allah. However, dont come here trying to gaslight other people as if we cannot see the rot islam has brought upon the world.

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Programming / Re: Expert Programmers Needed by truthCoder: 4:14pm On Apr 29, 2023
Freelane33:
I’m a Front end and back end developer
Congratulations

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Programming / Re: Spammers Are Back by truthCoder: 9:58am On Apr 29, 2023
airsaylongcome:


Why is he foaming at the mouth and convulsing?

cheesy

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