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by ralmidani 4mo ago
I'm working on an Arabic-language Electronic Health Records system (moving to Syria in about 2 months and planning to market to clinics there). No current plans to release as Free/Open-Source, but the stack is Elixir/Ash&#x2F
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Show HN: Deterministic, Replayable Demos for Phoenix LiveView(hexdocs.pm)
3 points by ralmidani 4mo ago|0 comments
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RePebble Announcement Tomorrow at 9am PDT(store.repebble.com)
8 points by ralmidani 2y ago|0 comments
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by ralmidani 2y ago
The first time I looked at Elixir, I thought it was hideous (I was really into Python and Ruby, and still admire them while liking Elixir much more). But I kept hearing about the virtues of Elixir (and of the BEAM) and coming back. Finally,
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Edit PDFs in Firefox(assets.mozilla.net)
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by ralmidani 2y ago
This is not by any means a “complete” picture. There was no consensus that Jesus is divine, or about the nature of the divinity ascribed to him, even after the declaration in 325 of the Nicene Creed - from which 5 bishops abstained and were
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by ralmidani 2y ago
“Islam” as a named religion with its own prescribed rituals and laws is specific to the message preached in Arabia in the 7th century. “Muslim” is a more transcendent term that encompasses all the prophets mentioned in the Quran, as well as
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by ralmidani 2y ago
Even Muslims do not claim their religion is completely novel. The rituals may differ, but the creed preached by Muhammad (peace and blessings upon him) is the same preached by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron,
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by ralmidani 2y ago
Wait til you have a legacy system and a newer system and need to, among other things: - Implement redirects from the old login screen to the new one - Keep sessions in sync - Make sure all internal and external users know how to clear cooki
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by ralmidani 2y ago
How mature is the RISC-V ecosystem for dev machines? VS Code and Jetbrains IDEs are probably not supported, but what about a setup with Fedora, Erlang, Elixir, Node, and maybe NeoVIM?
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by ralmidani 2y ago
I posted this link because, having taken their Elixir and OTP course, I think their video content is the best in the business by far.
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Full-Stack Phoenix Course by Mike and Nicole Clark (Early Access)(pragmaticstudio.com)
2 points by ralmidani 2y ago|1 comments
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by ralmidani 2y ago
I have to look up a lot of words from classical (especially pre-Islamic) poetry as well. For my own poetry I use words that I, and anyone reading/listening, can understand more easily. When I said “classical” I meant the meter and rhym
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by ralmidani 2y ago
My head is spinning after skimming the sections on shared memory, locks, mutexes, etc. Implementation and adoption would probably be a decade-long saga. Not to mention teaching folks when to use these and how to use them correctly. In e.g.
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by ralmidani 2y ago
I work with Elixir full-time and agree with all of these. I just want to add: - Elixir docs are top notch, both the existing docs for the language and its ecosystem, and the ease of generating your own docs for your projects and libraries.
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by ralmidani 2y ago
I’m almost 44 and becoming decent at writing Arabic poetry in the classical style. Along with intricate grammatical rules in the language itself, there are strict conventions for meter and rhyme. I enjoyed reading and memorizing when I live
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by ralmidani 2y ago
I’ve been using Elixir professionally for a couple of years and honestly, the only area where Elixir is not top-notch is the language server, which runs the risk of alienating folks who hear the hype and want to try it out. I’m optimistic t
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by ralmidani 2y ago
Hi Bob, I haven’t completed the book yet, but I wanted to note I appreciate you making it available for free online. I do my best to support authors like you (I have the book in print, PDF, and Kindle editions) and encourage others to do th
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by ralmidani 2y ago
Windows 2000 was the successor to Windows NT 4. On the consumer side, there was 95, then 98, then 98 SE (Second Edition), and then ME.
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by ralmidani 2y ago
If it doesn’t break backward-compatibility there wouldn’t be a need to release a new major version (which very few people have the stomach for anyway).
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by ralmidani 2y ago
I can only speak to Elixir. Elixir/Erlang/BEAM/OTP have less raw horsepower than, say, Rust, but they can potentially leapfrog “faster” platforms when under load due to predictable latency and almost linear scaling and system
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by ralmidani 2y ago
Worth noting: Carson Gross built _hyperscript[0], a HyperCard-inspired language that gets interpreted in the browser. Also worth noting: the same Carson Gross built htmx[1]. They are separate projects, but they play together nicely. [0] htt
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by ralmidani 2y ago
Are you trying to find a new role or build something for yourself? Is an SPA actually required? You might be able to build what you need using tools that involve less mental and technical overhead. Take a look at htmx, UnPoly, Rails/Ho
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by ralmidani 2y ago
I’m not against people being billionaires if they pay a fair share of their wealth in taxes every year. The reality in America is that the tax system is lopsided. Even in the lowest tax brackets, workers still have to deal with payroll taxe
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by ralmidani 2y ago
Microsoft __chose__ to use Blink, ostensibly because they felt that maintaining EdgeHTML was too costly. On iOS, you either use WebKit or your browser is technically and legally banned.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Comparing percentages can be misleading. 8,400 total LOC vs. 22,000 total LOC is an incredible win.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
> hand wave away front-end state management as something that no longer applies Does client-side state often need to exist independently of server-side state? I’m having trouble imagining a shopping cart or email draft being optimal UX-w
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I’m fairly sold on abolishing time zones, but arguing that they make a programmer’s job harder is not a compelling argument when we’re a small percentage of the population. Yeah, it’s annoying, but that’s just part of our job. What’s really
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by ralmidani 3y ago
AlKhawarizmi lived in Baghdad and was head Astronomer of the House of Wisdom there. Persia and Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) were under one political entity, along with Arabia, the Levant (modern-day Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon),
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by ralmidani 3y ago
“Sheafra” is the Arabic word for “Cipher”, which is, in turn, translated from the Arabic word “Sifr”, which means Zero. One of the first detailed explanations of Zero was made by Persian Muslim polymath AlKhawarizmi, whose name went through

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