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by cefarix 13y ago
I got bitten by this yesterday when I updated. I didn't expect it at all and only realized I had installed something a fraction of a second after I clicked what looked like a Next button... Went to Control Panel and uninstalled as soon
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by cefarix 13y ago
This is one of the things that most baffles me about alcohol culture in general, but specially in the American tech industry which is supposed to have smart people. Although my primary reason for abstaining from alcohol is a religious one,
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by cefarix 13y ago
Islam forbids alcoholic drinks which is why most Muslims, including myself, do not consume them. I mentioned that I am Muslim by way of explanation as to why I don't drink, so it actually has everything to do with this.
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by cefarix 13y ago
Umm, because that's the reason for me abstaining from alcohol. I made that quite clear when I started my sentence with "As a Muslim".
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by cefarix 13y ago
Religion and alcohol are not the same. Are trying to say that religion is like a rapist? But even if I continue with your horribly broken and anti-religionist analogy, I could say: I don't bring religion into my work/meetings so w
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by cefarix 13y ago
As an aside, why is alcohol such a big part of things like tech meetups, etc? I've been to a few and there is always alcohol being served and people drinking it. As a Muslim, I've never touched alcohol and never will, and I don&#x
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by cefarix 13y ago
Let me tell you my own personal story. Take from it what you will. My first passion in computers was programming. Before any games (other than Microsoft Flight Simulator), it was programming. I started when I was 8, in QBASIC. By the time I
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by cefarix 13y ago
I'm a religious American Muslim who fasts every day of Ramadan every year. So, what you're saying is that if I am Muslim, it's Ramadan, I'm fasting, and I'm traveling for religious purposes - that's suspicious?
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by cefarix 13y ago
I'm England -> Saudi Arabia -> Pakistan -> Saudi Arabia -> US
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by cefarix 13y ago
Yes, I'm very surprised that Hindi/Urdu are not in the list.
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by cefarix 13y ago
I am aware of the variations in ancient manuscripts of parts of the Quran. These variations are due to different scripts, different recitations, and sometimes scribe error. There is no reason why I would be flogged if some ancient manuscrip
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by cefarix 13y ago
I think it's well known among Muslims that there are multiple readings of the Quran. Another point of note is that unlike the Christian or Hebrew writings, the main method of preservation of the Quran has been through mass oral memorization
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by cefarix 13y ago
Good ol' cross-product and angular momentum!
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by cefarix 13y ago
Interesting. Islamic tradition also has a "night prayer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahajjud
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by cefarix 14y ago
My company got a couple of emails from a "credit advisor" Stacy at D&B with no subject. Then in the third email, from the same person... the email was typed out in the subject and there was no body. facepalm
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"How do I raise a boy not to be a rapist?"(cnn.com)
2 points by cefarix 14y ago|2 comments
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by cefarix 14y ago
I just wanted to say thanks for writing this.
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by cefarix 14y ago
It feels like it was just a few months ago... well, it was, but a year?!
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by cefarix 14y ago
The flight map over South Asia, China, and most of South America looks to be very incomplete.
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by cefarix 14y ago
I started when I was 8 using QBASIC. When I was around 11 I discovered Java, and from there C. My first programs were text-based games written in QBASIC. I also wrote a program to help me with my math homework. Later on, one of the Java boo
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by cefarix 14y ago
So that's why I've stopped receiving spam to my GMail account.
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by cefarix 15y ago
I just wasted 3 hours on this (in a good way).
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by cefarix 15y ago
Thank you!
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by cefarix 15y ago
Although I live in Dallas, TX, USA... still good to see my fellow Pakistanis here! As I write this I am actually visiting in Pakistan for a few days.
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by cefarix 15y ago
This is the most mind-tickling thing I have seen/read/watched in a long while! I am going through all the slides and now I know how to interview other coders. Thanks for sharing this!
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by cefarix 15y ago
I made some posts in Unicode and the tags got converted to numbers and the posts are blank :(
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by cefarix 15y ago
Every worthwhile project you will do, you will learn something new. That's true for even those of us who have over 10 years of experience. Adapt or die - always true in the IT industry :)
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by cefarix 15y ago
I know they are Indian. I am from South Asia. However, the modern system was first created in Arabic. Also, I am talking about the placement of the digits, and this came to Europe from Arabic, not Brahmi.
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by cefarix 15y ago
Arabic has a large variety of sounds - but I think no more than other languages do. For example, Arabic does not have a p sound or a g sound. My native language, though, has 4 types of t and 4 types of d, 2 types of k, 2 types of g, etc.
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by cefarix 15y ago
Have you ever wondered why numbers are written backwards in English? Why do we write the highest-order digits first and proceed to the lower-order digits? Well these numbers originated in Arabic, and since Arabic is written right-to-left, w

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