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by alinajaf 14y ago
There is literally nothing in the article that suggests that the author is trying to approximate the lifestyle of 'how poor people live'.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I'm of South Asian descent and can relate to a lot of the points you make here. In particular, I'm classed as 'British Pakistani', so I get searched everywhere . This includes on the underground, customs at any airport and once getting amb
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by alinajaf 14y ago
When there isn't a typhoon on, they pretty much arrive on time to the second. Anything later than a few minutes results in the platform staff handing out notes to that effect so that employees can prove to their companies that the train was
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Hi, I'm Ali! My story is similar, only I used to be quite a strong fundamentalist muslim. I believed in the Ummah (i.e. the manifest destiny of the united Islamic empire to eventually take over the world) and all the fun stuff in the append
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Remember this? http://vimeo.com/9260794 Somehow found myself watching it a few weeks ago. In it the biggest realisation I had was that I would have been just as likely as the developers at flickr, vimeo etc at punching in `sha1(secret_k
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Interesting, but why bimodal? I find a lot of my friends who claim to be Christian on further questioning are in fact "Deists in disguise".
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by alinajaf 14y ago
My personal, ad-hoc strategy for keeping up with news (aside from HN): * Glance Newspaper headlines on the metro or at newsstands. * Every quarter or so, pick up a copies of The Economist and New Scientist. * Hit wikipedia for an intro to i
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> Sharia has an appeal that's difficult to understand in the West. Pakistan's official court system is deeply, deeply compromised. The police are hopelessly corrupt. Cases take many years to resolve, and victory goes to the person who p
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> For someone who appears to have some insight , I am surprised you are mixing up your "terrorists" Can you let me know which specific part of my comment makes you think I'm "mixing up my terrorists"? > There is a fundamental difere
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I don't think what you said makes what I said any less true i.e. there's probably a large mix of backgrounds in Islamist movements. I would however be willing to bet that the majority of the TTP are recruited in a way similar to what I desc
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by alinajaf 14y ago
This article sounds nice, but I'm not exactly convinced. Here comes some anecdata... TL/DR I think economic considerations like education, healthcare and income have more to do with uptake of militant Islamism than movies. You live in a vil
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Without ActiveSupport I'd probably type something like this: %w(top left width height).reduce({}) { |memo, pos| memo[position] = @element.style[position] and memo }
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Just another datapoint, but contrary to the other comments here I find your reduce example a lot more readable than the original. This could be because it's fairly idiomatic ruby.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Comments like the ones you link to are the reason I blow so much time on HN. I have read everything patio11 has written about consulting , twice. As I've said on HN before his writing has changed my life in a few dramatic and interesting
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> The ones we don't grow up with sometimes even sound romantic. They're thugs, pimps, and murderers. Don't ever forget that. I found this out the hard way. If you ever find yourself in a bar in Japan, accosted by a nice Japanese man who
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In ruby, everything is an object, including modules. Boom.
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Back to work!
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Agree 100%. Moreover, any scientific theory is an open challenge. If you can create a reproducible experiment that disproves a theory, then we must throw it away.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Kim Stanley Robisons Mars Trilogy is mostly about this (i.e. 'Mankind is a pestilance' vs. 'We are the consciousness of the universe')
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Japanese people traditionally ate (and many still do eat) rice at every single mean, lunch, breakfast and dinner? Agree with the majority of your comment but I think the above could be attributed to their smaller portions.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Can't speak for the OP but here are a few differences between learning electronics vs. programming: 1. With programming you can download open source code that does whatever it is you want near enough instantaneously. Electronics projects co
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> There's not much information about "electronics for software guys". Interesting you mention this, I've been getting into microcontroller programming for the past year or so and I've also found this to be the case. I'm thinking of putt
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by alinajaf 14y ago
The only thing your plan doesn't account for is how we get the updates from the web developers on Mars :-)
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I tend to agree, on my own personal scale of liberal/conservative (which has little to do with type systems), I'd rank Haskell as fantastically liberal. You could probably enumerate the companies that use it in production on one hand.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Haskell is more liberal than ruby (functional programming) Not according to the article, which is what my comment was in response to. > I think any correlation says more about age than it does about politics. Quite possible, I'm 2
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Let's try this with me... The original: "PHP is easy to learn. Golang is as easy as PHP!" Some str_replaces: "Ruby is easy to learn. Golang is as easy as Ruby!" "Clojure is easy to learn. Golang is as easy as Clojure!" "Python is easy to le
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I think as a Ruby (and occasionally C) programmer I stand firmly in the liberal camp, but is it weird that I sort of like Haskell too? I find the idea of expressing the semantics of my program through types to be useful sometimes. Then agai
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by alinajaf 14y ago
IIRC Accelerando (linked below) by HNs very own cstross postulated something similar in 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_(novel)
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by alinajaf 14y ago
May be true of the valley, but the numbers here are about right for full-time work in London. If you want cheap tech talent, come to the UK!
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Did you contact some recruiters at some point? Yes, and I've had mixed experiences with them. Some of them are great, others not so much. > Where are they farming your email address from? I make my email address publicly available

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