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by abdulhaq 4y ago
I'm wondering if the bedouin Arabs escaped the expulsion in the 1948 exodus?
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
And what would the motor do?
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
Hugh Howey's Wool is one of the best novels I've read for a long time. His advice here, primarily to work really hard and to concentrate on a good plot with a catchy start, sounds eminently sensible to me.
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
Yes it comes down to 'good' meaning having achieved a certain level, or 'good' implying the existence of a significant spread in ability across e.g a central 95% of people. I've chosen the second meaning, and do be
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
Some people will learn maths much faster than others. A person of IQ 140 will learn calculus in much less time than someone with an IQ of 70. Even if everyone had infinite time I think we would all hit a limit, and that limit would span a v
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sell online courses on how to do it.
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
It's a cunning plan to get the thief to call the police and turn themselves in
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
Evolution doesn't have a goal or purpose, and it just doesn't make sense to say that 'Humans evolved to...' for anything. You could on the other hand say something like 'human story telling is a consequence of evolu
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
A) second order thinking sounds clever so we all agree it's good,though we're unsure what it is B) my way of thinking is advanced and clever Ergo C) second order thinking is the way I think
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
For twenty years no Qt developer has complained about the speed of Qt signals. Even in PyQt the speed of Qt signals is not issue - it's the code responding to the signal that can be a problem. This is a non-issue and anyone who is worr
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
Across the history of man the greatest mass killings of people were instigated by atheists e.g Stalin who murdered millions simply because they were Christian. Most wars are tribal fights where the religion correlates to the tribe and it ha
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
That's like saying a plumber just sells parts that other people made
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Or is it actually fortunate? The delay in properly incorporating Arabic into the IT environment gave the rendering infrastructure time to enrich and develop more elaborate textual representation such as advanced ligatures. This means Arabic
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
Sounds a bit like sour grapes to me.
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Perhaps I don't have that spark, but deep within and after much thought and contemplation, I believe I have. I am very sure, regardless, that computer programs do not have it.
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
It's not 'like' anything, computer programs don't have true feelings, though they can certainly be programmed to act as if they do. It can be programmed to say 'hey, life is great' but it means nothing. They h
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
I'm using Pyodide to run my python library in the browser (and calling it from TypeScript), I'm using enthought's traits library too and it works amazingly well (and quickly)
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
Apple aren't just selling a tool, they're selling a lifestyle. Apple customers like to feel part of that artist/architect/film producer vibe, with the expensive weird glasses and green trousers. That's the marketing
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
Sardonic comments like these kind of break HN. You are being sardonic, right? Right???
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60241145
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The "nobody got fired for buying IBM" thing expired decades ago, that mantle passed on to Microsoft. Last 5 - 10 years, nobody gets fired for architecting dozens of microservices in the cloud.
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that would change the probability distribution of the remaining numbers, which is to be avoided
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
It looks like you've put 5 years of love into the software, and 5 days into promoting it. Find someone who is into sales and marketing and get them to help. As an amateur I'd say, make the website styling look more en vogue, it ha
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
Off topic, but I see that everyone involved in the photo used in the article gets a mention, even the model whose hand is pictured. Yet when a film like Dune is reviewed, or a new spacecraft lands on another planet, not a single engineer or
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
Yes, 2:156 https://quran.com/2/156 it's said by muslims when something bad happens, especially when hearing news that someone has passed away
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The author has totally overlooked the influence of Islamic architecture, which is widely held to have been a major inspiration on Gothic architecture. There's more to constructing elaborate buildings than being able to draw pointy bits
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The masses are just loops. The mindful are gets and loops. The ruling class are gets, sets, and loops. The elite are ifs, gets, sets, and loops.
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The hard part isn't designing and building an object heap, the hard part is building, guiding and managing a team that builds, manages and operates an object heap, at a world wide scale.
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
I've used Enthought's Traits very extensively for a form of static type checking in Python, and I can strongly recommend it.
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He disassembled the video and turned it into a blog post

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