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As a muslim, I hope he doesn't eff this up, Obama style. But the fact that he won, although not the blowout as some were expecting, restored a bit of my hope in the common man. Cuo…

These deal numbers have lost all meaning for me. There’s been some buzz around the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which I visited last month. That project took 1.1 …

> Go prioritizes not breaking the ecosystem; this allows to assume that Hyrum’s Law will protect certain observable behaviors of the runtime, from which we may infer what can or ca…

Does anyone know of an up-to-date or live visualization of the amount of scientific fraud? And perhaps also measuring the second order effects? i.e. poisoning of the well via citat…

Sorry! Just realized that when I checked the docs again. My bad.

Minor annoyance: Yesterday I was reading the docs and one of the first things I tried is the following, copy and pasted, which didn't work, using version 0.71: COPY (SELECT 42 AS a…

My manager used to do this all the time. Typical scenario: Manager: hey Me: what's up? Manager: nvm

I don't believe Arabs are under the illusion that their government is non-tyrannical. I live in Egypt and there's not a single person I've met that doesn't think their government i…

Yes, one usually does and can repair all those things. Except for the pacemaker, which I’m not sure.

I agree. Who are all these people that pull backups, that maybe GBs or TBs in size for offline storage? How does that even work in practical terms in disaster scenarios like this w…

Perhaps we need to distinguish, if at all possible these days, between the military and the military industrial complex. I don't believe the military is inherently evil but think i…

Over the years, I've had an older MacBook Air, pre-touchbar MacBook Pro 13" and 15", and the second generation MacBook. Order of preference: MacBook > MacBook Air > MacBook Pro 15"…

I believe '/courses' and 'student/1234/courses' mean two different things. The former implies a list of courses and the later implies an association between a student and a course.…

> At times Mohammed only spoke to one or two people when revealing surah. Having thousands of people memorise a number of separate orations exactly without any problem of conflicti…

Variations existed in the written form not in the recitation because diacritics (tashkeel) were not standardized. It's a common misconception that the Quran is memorized through th…

I'm curious as to why this project is using Django templates (as opposed to Jinja2)? Django is a heavy dependency if you're just planning on using Django templates. Also, from what…

How about the Linux kernel? Essentially, it began as something very basic in 1991 when communication methods were much different than we have today (e.g. video conferencing, etc.)[…

I'm reminded of a scene in Louie where Louis CK is approached by a Hollywood producer to discuss movie ideas[0]. The producer asks him for his best idea for a movie. Yeah? All righ…

The full transcript of Crichton's lecture at Caltech: http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers...