hqudsi

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by hqudsi 2y ago
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 community both from Saudi and non-Saudi Muslims. I imagine
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by hqudsi 3y ago
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 there is no true enum type so it'
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by hqudsi 3y ago
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.
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by hqudsi 3y ago
For me it was that coinbase ad.
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by hqudsi 3y ago
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 famous scholars that nearly everyone recognizes as an exper
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by hqudsi 3y ago
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 we do solely for God and God alone. Also you can fast o
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by hqudsi 3y ago
People play professional sports while fasting during Ramadan. I have no idea how they do it but having access to nutritionists probably helps.
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by hqudsi 3y ago
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 dehydrated.
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by hqudsi 3y ago
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 even though it has some prescriptions. But most of the "
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by hqudsi 3y ago
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 whatever thoughts you have in your head. If we were, then
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by hqudsi 3y ago
Yea I like to describe fasting like going super saiyan but in spirituality and religiosity.
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by hqudsi 3y ago
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 language itself is very forgiving and so there is room for
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by hqudsi 3y ago
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 database and give business people access to a read only
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by hqudsi 4y ago
Wall Street Oasis is probably the closest thing https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum
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by hqudsi 4y ago
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 autosquash the fixes - `git rebase --autosquash` So yea I thi