Ahmed90

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by Ahmed90 5y ago
Can confirm Arabic FB moderation is next to 0 --- my comment from an older relevant post ---- I personally reported 3 posts on different FB pages 1st was a religion extremist guy who says to Iraqi people that they should protest and fight
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by Ahmed90 5y ago
Oooh, I'm blind... didn't notice the github in their menu! Thank you :)
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by Ahmed90 5y ago
Anyone have an idea what tool they used to build the data viz? or is it completely from scratch?
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by Ahmed90 5y ago
4 years ago one of my clients wanted to "donate" a system for the local fire department to help them do a quick proximity search to find the fire hydrants and quickly choose the healthy one near the fire. And since it was charity
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by Ahmed90 6y ago
Idk, a brain fart I guess.
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by Ahmed90 6y ago
It's an obvious "following the local law" thingy, Facebook doesn't give a s*t, I personally reported 3 posts on different FB pages 1st was a religion extremist guy who says to Iraqi people that they should protest and fi
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by Ahmed90 6y ago
I'm not from the US so I have no idea what's the history of the PATRIOT Act, but I get the concept, it's just F *ed up and we cant do shit about it
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by Ahmed90 6y ago
Yeah, I guess it can be abused easily, but again... how can we as code monkeys fight these power hungry practices that keep dragging us backward ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Ahmed90 6y ago
That's why I'm curious, it's more of a movement I guess, also there are multiple types license and idk if blacklisting a specific entity is possible or if it has any legal grounds
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by Ahmed90 6y ago
Genuine question, how viable is it, if we (code monkeys) created some sort of a blacklist of the entities that are not allowed to use our open source projects? -- something like "We don't support Internet Explorer" but a bit
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by Ahmed90 6y ago
I lived in Syria before the war and stuff, even back in 2010, because of the US export laws Syrians were banned from downloading the most basic shit like Java runtime, adobe flash player, and Nvidia gpu drivers, Skype, Messengers like Yahoo
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
Yep
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
Dr. Vincent Racaniello was a guest on a Twitch.tv podcast hosted by Ethan Evans (Amazon VP) and Devin Nash (CMO @N3RDFUSION) They talked for 2 hours and pretty much covered a bunch of questions about this subject, there is so much misinform
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
The group leading the protest? wtf? there is no group leading the protest and the current government and all the political parties involved have been in power since the US gave it to them in 2003, and before that was Saddam for 30 years and
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
The impact is huge, I'm a software engineer in an app-based company the interaction dropped like 80% or something
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Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew(netblocks.org)
155 points by Ahmed90 7y ago|144 comments
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
"So far" yes
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
They got in, shot down Saddam, got a bunch of anti-Saddam parties and gave them power... most of them were hiding in Iran or worked with Iran during the Iraq/Iran war they didn't understand the powerplay by Iran, they kept struggl
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
Hahaha are you serious? the government and all the political parties involved wew installed and formed by the US as a "freedom" after Saddam.
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
I put quotation marks around the "freedom" looks better now? xD
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
Half these Pro-Americans used to hide in Iran before the war, America got outplayed when it comes to the Iraqi government lol
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
Because the government is backed by Iran (puppet) and it's fully corrupt?
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
Iraqi here (But I live in Turkey), protests were raging yesterday and today, first social media was taken down now the whole internet from mid (Baghdad) to the rest of the south of the country Here is a local service monitor for all major I
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
As a 5th grade dropout who is a fully self-taught developer, I did Interview, mentor, and supervised a multiple of developers with masters and PhDs to help them understand and get comfortable in the real world of the IT industry, sure they
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
These rules are so stupid and actually hurts no one but the poor individual developer, a few years ago I used to live in Syria before the events. I had to find 3rd party mirrors or VPNs for the stupidest shit... like Nvidia graphics driver,
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
With all respect for the hard work done on this client, but is it just me or is the TUI getting too much attention recently?? I think the GUI stacks are too bloated or too hideous (electron, cpp/qt,c# and it's limitations, etc...)
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
Ahhh my father is a capitan I used to track his ship with this site like 8 years ago, it was very accurate
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
That was around 2010 iirc, before it was cool.
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
Everyone here is debating is it crypot or not... but does it matter? it's Facebook after all, we are (the typical techy user) not the target audience. Unfortunately, it's going to sell just because it's the big old facebook,
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by Ahmed90 7y ago
Pretty? Yes! Practical? No!

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