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As a practicing Muslim, yup I have no love for the Saudi regime (same with the Iranian regime, Taliban, etc.). That being said you'll find a variety of opinions with the Muslim com…

I sometimes do this but idk if I would consider it 'elegant' The other 'gotcha' is that in switch statements the compiler can't tell whether you enumerated on all your cases as the…

When I was first starting out, a then senior engineer told me: "friends don't let other friends use kwargs". That always stuck with me.

For me it was that coinbase ad.

There's no central authority in Islam like the clergy in Catholism. However there are legal schools and councils that people trust. Legal schools (or fiqh) were established by famo…

I meant breaking your fast with dates is kinda arbitrary not the fasting itself. Fasting is very much not arbitrary and has a very special meaning since it's one of the few things …

People play professional sports while fasting during Ramadan. I have no idea how they do it but having access to nutritionists probably helps.

As long as you are properly hydrated before it's really not that bad. Even this Ramadan, when I went to pee later in the day, the color wasn't dark implying I wasn't that dehydrate…

Islamic tradition values reason and rationality. It doesn’t say to blindly follow stuff. You still have to reason through new situations. The Quran is more for spiritual guidance e…

Yea and as a Muslim - I view it more as practicing discipline rather than suppressing desires. Like one the other posts said, you can't be blamed or sinned for having desires or wh…

Yea I like to describe fasting like going super saiyan but in spirituality and religiosity.

While I agree that English or any other spoken language is sufficient to describe technical requirements, many people have trouble communicating what they actually want because the…

I honestly believe everyone working at a tech company should know or learn how to code even if it's just SQL or basic Python. I'm more than happy creating some views in a SQL datab…

Wall Street Oasis is probably the closest thing https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum

yea I do interactive rebase all the time on my local git to clean up my commits before I push them up. I also started doing `git commit --fixup` when doing cr fixes so I can just a…