abdulhaq

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Steve Jobs' early Reality Distortion Field(folklore.org)
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
No, poor mistranslation there. "We have certainly created man in the best of stature; Then We return him to the lowest of the low, Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds, for they will have a reward uninterrupted." "The Fig" 95
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
I really like the look of this. I developed http://kayali.sf.net (Maxima/Qt based) and achieving such a clean look is very difficult. Having a web based app makes a lot of sense these days especially for students.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
Funnily enough, according to wikipedia, Geronimo was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades. I don't think
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
A big win for 64bit java over 32bit is that the kernel can provide more memory to the 64 bit process. This is because the java heap has to be 'contiguous' memory, and this is difficult to offer when in 32 bit mode due to memory fragmentatio
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
Anyone who wants to read a fascinating insight into the early days of personal computer development should read this entire site - it evokes wonderful memories for me of how exciting it all was in those days, and how a few guys can develop
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
Never remind Americans that they deliberately slaughtered over 100,000 civilians with nuclear weapons - they don't like it.
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
Ludicrously complicated syntax being required to refer to something simple, like a pointer to a member function. Python: sort(my_list, key=my_instance.sort) C++/Boost: sorry, I had only had 2 hours and couldn't work it out (it's 10 years si
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
When we draw a circle it has no beginning and no end, but there is most certainly a creator of it.
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
I'm not sure whether to give the quick explanation to that or the proper one - an in-between one is that the income idea won't work because there is no guarantee that e.g. my health will continue OK for twenty years or that my job will rema
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
You and me both are ignorant about so much of world, but when we see how what we do know about it is so mistakenly represented in the media, it's a big concern. After the world trade center bombings the BBC news on the TV ran a piece in a c
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
Your mistake here is thinking that if something is not against the shariah then it must be 'promoting' shariah. That's incorrect. In Islam, everything is allowed (halal) unless it is clearly disallowed (haram), so someone administering a sh
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
This comment is important because it is so offbase and yet is sourced in what a lot of westerners think/know about 'islam'. Frankly, it kind of depresses and scares me a bit how little people understand about the thing that supposedly is ca
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
If you meditate on the correct things for an hour you might realise that actually it's your 50 hour-a-week job that is wasted time and taking a time-out to contemplate the bigger subjects is a far more useful pursuit.
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
Naming things 'new-' something is not IT developer specific. New College, Oxford was founded in 1379.
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
I find it surprising that javascript gets so much traction as a hidden jewel when really it's a pretty poor language compared to python, for instance. It started off being pooh-poohed (including by myself) by those who thought that it was s
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
You are Chinese and I claim my £5.
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
This is a great idea, to have a full powered language running in a VM in the browser. All we need now is to have a more developer-friendly language with a richer VM and framework, like Java. Err....
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
The sooner you start typing the longer it takes to finish.
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by abdulhaq 16y ago
>My company launches in about two months. Be careful not to line yourself up for another fall. It sounds like you take your trials too much to heart and need to learn to make a bit of distance between what is genuinely important and 'wo
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
They took your iPad but they did provide in exchange a small rectangle of beach^H^H^H^H^H sand with a metal band around it.
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
I guess Apple are now working on a switch that will prevent the running of Cappuccino, GWT and pyjamas web apps - they don't use 'raw' javascript.
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
She might have failed to untick some option when registering I guess - but that wouldn't give FB the right to impersonate her would it? The email said : The following person invited you to be their friend on Facebook: <wife's facebook a
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
A bit off topic but Facebook sends fake emails to me, claiming to be from my wife's Facebook account, inviting me to join Facebook. She actually doesn't use her account and only set it up as a test, months ago. I guess they can use paid-for
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
I don't believe that COBOL was designed for the masses - after all, this was 1959, when there were so few computers and it was believed by some that ultimately we would only need one! Also, SQL came out of academia and I don't believe that
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
Blue bream is the same fish as Zope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramis_ballerus
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
If it was at terminal velocity it should be considered, but it's yet to get off the ground. Until then, psyco is a great JIT compiler that really works.
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
What I do is have a separate *_debug.html page, which loads the js files individually. I.e., I have a python build script that auto builds the main.html and main_debug.html from much smaller html, css and js files. This is particularly usef
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
Once I had some (considerable, 3 months) spare time and decided to fulfill my ambition of writing a chess program. This one would be special - it would work to a strategy, rather than brute force. 3 months later, and having written it first
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
'Near-instinctive' knowledge of this, before being exposed to the basic idea, would make a good marker for high intelligence, and one which I failed at (and I'm no slouch). Ask a few colleagues about it, and prepare to be disappointed!

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