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by abdulhaq 13y ago
Knowing what's needed and knowing what customers will actually buy is two different things...
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by abdulhaq 13y ago
I wish Bruce was right, but the interception of so much internet traffic is hugely valuable to the US (not just security but commercial spying too). Therefore it will use all the leverage it can with its trade treaties etc to lean on suffic
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by abdulhaq 13y ago
"The Guardian understands that a total of 850,000 NSA employees and US private contractors with top secret clearance had access to GCHQ databases." 850,000 employees/contractors?? - That can't be correct can it?
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by abdulhaq 13y ago
Thanks for writing this, I'd be interested to read how you decided who to publish it with (and why you made it freely available too), and how sales went :-)
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by abdulhaq 14y ago
I've often thought the same thing myself, there's no need for everyone to have some super-accurate private list of articles (that then dies with a minute or two) - one shared list per minute for everyone is plenty good enough.
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by abdulhaq 14y ago
I suggest you start to prefer learning from people instead of insulting them - you'll do much better in life. At least learn to either be polite or keep quiet.
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by abdulhaq 14y ago
No, python is strongly typed.
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by abdulhaq 14y ago
I think that's not strictly true, what about الخ meaning الى اّخره (i.e. to the end of it, meaning "etc".). In some books ح can mean حديث. But generally it is very rare.
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Making things simple is the hard part (worthamention.wordpress.com)
1 points by abdulhaq 14y ago|0 comments
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
Here's a vote for cherrypy - it handles all the http / protocol shenanigans for you, but leaves the meaty business side entirely to you - which, as an experienced developer, is what I want.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
The world of software and its ecosystem/environment, like the rest of the world, is immensely complex and not susceptible to simple analysis that can be summarised in an essay. Therefore when we decide how much attention to pay to someones
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
I'm not in a startup and I know nothing about LLL but I do know this: if you're firefighting and say that you don't have time to draw breath, and that you don't have time to learn the right way to get things back onto track, then that means
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
Yes it means that too but deriving from the sense I mentioned, i.e. asking if the person making the assertion would swear to it 'by God'.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
wallah does indeed mean 'By God!' in arabic but it's used as an assertion of veracity. In this context the poster obviously meant to say voila and like you I've also seen this wallah variation of it creeping in recently.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
Around 1981, in the early days of Personal Computer World, one of the very early UK personal computer magazines, there was an article which it seems I will never forget. The journalist excitedly expounded on a new application that was being
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
I find that a stimulating comment because for me, not one tiny iota of what is good and bad about us comes from our genes. Our genes are the cards we are dealt with when we are born. How good and bad we are is seen in how we respond to that
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Learning Ruby, and Ruby-vs-Lisp(netzhansa.blogspot.com)
54 points by abdulhaq 15y ago|16 comments
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
OK well I'll give you my personal perspective. For learning python, python.org actually has a very good tutorial. Then there is also http://www.diveintopython.net/ which is excellent. For web frameworks I use cherrypy which is very minima
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
I could spend a lot of time explaining why python, eclipse and pydev make a good development platform etc., - but I think you need to explore your own thoughts a bit more. It seems you're unstatisfied with something and think that Linux is
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
I know I'm not a language, now try telling that to the recruitment agent.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
Halfway down there is a picture of a bookcase with a map of Russia next to it. The map is oriented at 90 degrees to 'normal' and has Western Russia at the top and Eastern Russia at the bottom.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
15 FWIW
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
Yes he's not up there with the top guys in understanding, but I'm sure that not only does he know that it should be spelled kaon, but that he also knows what a koan is.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
Absolutely, for this reason it's much better to use the keyboard.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
The problem could made less painful by including a link back to http://news.ycombinator.com on the "Unknown or expired link" page. That would save me fishing around with the mouse and the back button to get a new start.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
distilling your point eh ;-). I agree about alcohol probably not 'causing' rape, but perhaps it can loosen those final inhibitions for those sick enough to consider it.
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
The issue is not whether you or any number of people can 'handle' X (whatever X is), the issue is, Is X, when it and its consequences are considered in their entirety, a net positive or not? Also, stating that alcohol has a pernicious effec
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
Working on drivers should be put to one side (if indeed they are spending time on that) and they should work on the emulated hardware only until they reach XP-level. This would be a massive achievement that millions of Linux users etc. coul
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
The primary problem with web development is not that javascript, css, DOM and dynamic HTML make for painful application development, even though that is the case. The main problem is having divergent implementations of HTML/DOM etc.. that r
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by abdulhaq 15y ago
I swear (not having heard of Tim Ferris) I thought this article was a brilliant send-up of the self-help industry and the public's appetite for it. Towards the end of the article I was in awe of the journalist, who made it sound almost-bel

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