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Testing Programmers: Puzzles Or Mini Web-Apps? 5 Apr 2012 | 06:29 am
As you know, I like to sponsor web application programming contests, for example, this, this, and this In a recent conversation with an Android programmer, he asked why I don't follow Google's practi...
Mini Web Application Coding Challenge For Programmers 24 Mar 2012 | 08:50 am
You've been hired to teach Computer Appreciation at a local Secondary school for one term. During that term, you're expected to give the students 2 tests (15 marks each), one practical project(10 mark...
Web Developer Wanted 22 Mar 2012 | 04:22 am
A small but influential web publishing concern needs a full-time software developer with sysadmin skills to manage and develop a couple of heavily trafficked dynamic websites written in Python and run...
The Social Network Chicken And Egg Problem 4 Mar 2012 | 08:01 am
I got this interesting question in my inbox recently: Hey Seun, You don't know me. I'm just a fan of yours. I'd like to know how you solved the "chicken and egg" problem and succeed with nairaland. N...
Personal Assistant Wanted In Sango Ota 4 Mar 2012 | 05:35 am
A webmaster based in Sango-Ota requires the services of a male or female personal assistant. He/she should be: A creative problem-solver who can make things happen as promised and on time and doesn'...
Solutions To India's Girl Baby Murder Problem 24 Feb 2012 | 06:53 am
In response to Umari Ayim's post about the practice of female-infanticide in India (poor people killing their baby girls because they can't afford to raise them and pay their dowries when they are of ...
Don't Use Quota Systems To Enforce Equality 11 Feb 2012 | 04:43 pm
In response to this bit of news: The Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday said it was currently working with banks to ensure that a certain percentage of the position of senior management and board mem...
Privatize Public Schools And Distribute Their Shares To The Masses 10 Feb 2012 | 12:03 am
The Best Way To Privatize Public Schools In Nigeria In the spirit of democracy, capitalism, and reducing the cost of government I believe a fully privatized educational system will be best, especiall...
Smallest And Largest Floating Point Values In Python 19 Jun 2009 | 04:45 am
In my production code, I have a function that calculates a/(a+b). That function threw a ZeroDivisionError at me this afternoon, so I decided to change the equation to a/(a+b+sys.minfloat), because I f...
Trivial Solution To CPU-Bound Thread Slowdown On Multicore Systems 16 Jun 2009 | 07:02 am
According to David Beasley, the CPython GIL doesn't just prevent CPU-bound applications from taking advantage of multiple cores. He says it also slows them down on multicore systems. As an example, h...
