I will answer for you though. If he lives in the US then the answer is yes. I am not even an arab but I have brown skin and I get discriminated against. Oddly enough I get discrimnated for being different things. If I am in NY I am called a puerto rican, if I am out west I am discriminated because they think I am indian, if I am in OK or TX I am discrimnated because they think I am mexican.
If he has brown skin he is discriminated against. Simple as that.
And yet this was done by the republicans. You want to excuse them because the democrats "would have" done the same thing then go right ahead. Don't let the fact that they haven't actually done it stop you from anything.
New deal failed? News to me. SOcial security, medicare, medicaid are still around. What's worse is that I don't see any republican calling for their elimination.
As for taxes, who cares if anybody cuts taxes. As long as you don't cut spending we are just going even deeper into debt. Wake me up when a republican actually cuts spending.
His point was that the democrats haven't done something like this. If you want to excuse the republicans because you think democrats would have done the same thing (even if they havent) then it seems like you are a little bit insane.
His analogy is a little off. It's more like "Don't be too harsh on this rapist, you see that guy there, he would rape somebody too".
That's not the point is it now? The question is why is this having to speak for all the arabs and muslims here on slashdot?
Better yet, if he has to speak for all the arabs because he is an arab why don't the american geeks asked to condemn or speak about the atrocities conducted by the american govt?
"The fact of the matter is, the only reason that this is interesting to us is because of the tensions between us and the middle east. (No offense Isam Bayazidi). If these tensions weren't there, it would be the same as asking a French programmer about his day."
Right. That's exactly the point. He is an arab and because he is an arab politics was brought into the situation. Whether he likes it or not he will not be asked to condemn the actions of people he never met. Whats worse is that he has to condemn them whether he wants to or not (don't really know how he feels but that's moot isn't it?).
This poor guy is being put on the spot to speak for all arabas and all muslims.
My point is. If you are going to do that why don't you put other geeks on the spot for the actions of the christians (christian soldiers, christian governments) etc.
A christian president of a christian nation has killed tens of thousands of people and destroyed entire villages. If it's fair to ask this one guy a question about islamic extremism then why isn't it fair to ask every christian (or american) geek the same question?
The question was about radicalism. The fact that arab/muslim radicalism was asked to a technologists indicates that an arab can never run away from what is happening around to world to and by other arabs.
Whether this guy likes it or not he now has to explain the actions of people he has never met, what's worse he has to speak for the entire muslim population and he has to do it in a way so as not to upset the americans who make up the majority of the/. population.
If that's not political then I don't know what is.
I don't know what to tell you. I guess ROR isn't for you. Maybe try PHP, there is a lot of documentation there. I was going to say try zope but it's even harder and the documentation is even more outdated.
I guess there is always java. Lost of documentation there if you want to spend all your time typing everything three times.... Customer myCustomer = new CustomerFactory.createCustomer("joe").asCustomer()
Whatever you do stay away from perl though, that way lies madness.
"As a follow-up. How do you feel that recent world events, such as the riots in Paris, riots over Danish comics, and even the actions of terrorist organizations or Arabic origin have influenced this view, by relation to media portrayal. "
I think those are pretty minor compared to the complete destruction of an entire city like Fallujia from US bombardment don't you? I mean we bombed a city twice. First time caused soccer fields outside the city to be turned into mass graves, the second time BBC reported that 75% of the city was destroyed.
That's just two incidents, one city. It seems to me people are lacking perspective here. The protesters burned a few building and about a dozen of them got shot by the police. Compare that to what is going on in palestine, afghanistan or iraq.
"As an Arab in today's world, how do you deal with those in the Western world who further the stereotype of "Arabs As Radicals"?"
I don't see how anybody can do anything about this. This has been a weird month hasn't it?
How come all those right wing commentators went on and on about how dear freedom of speech was during the cartoon controversy and said nothing about a guy being jailed in Austria for a speech he made 17 years ago?
How come those same commentators have said precious little about the prisoners in guantanamo who not only have no free speech rights, but have no human rights whatsoever!.
I mean free speech is sacrocent but holding people without charges, lawyers, trials indefinately is perfectly OK right?
Anyway the point of this rant is that radical is in the eye of the beholder. I think GW is radical for proposing that he could point to a human being, utter his name in anger and strip that person of all human rights. Furthermore he can then ship that person to a secret prison to be tortured without being subject any law whatsoever. To me that's radical.
I don't know about "communities" but surely there must be individual arabs and israelis working together on projects.
I definately could see people choosing not to use a project that was primarily developed in Israel or an arab country for political reasons though. I have no problem with that.
As long as your database is mysql. If it's anything else you have to take your chances. Postgres is supported pertty well, everybody else can go fuck themselves because it won't work at all.
During the snakes and rubies talk david was asked about admin interfaces. He said something like "ROR doesn't really need one because there is a shell and you can work directly with activerecord objects from the shell, this is better then an admin screen".
His take is that you can work right inside the framework using nothing but ruby to manipulate your activerecord objects. This should be better then directly manipulating your tables because theoretically your activerecord objects keep your relations, validations etc so your data doesn't go wonky because you are directly editing records. I think there is something to that although I think it would be nice to be able to do that through the web too.
I have been going to WWDC for three years now. Every year during the feedback sessions people always ask the same things.
1) How come you hate webobjects developers so much. 2) When are you going to get a decent package management tool or formally adopt darwinports.
Every year the answers are the same.
1) We don't really hate you guys, we really love you, we neglect webobjects on purpose. 2) We are apple, neither darwinports nor pkgsrc, nor fink is good enough for us. One day we will write a really cool one just watch.
WTF. Why object to paying 50 bucks for a book? You get a free language, free framework, free IDE, free operating system. Just pay 50 bucks for a book and be happy.
What makes you think that just because you can "manage' XP you can manage Active directory and windows 2003 server. Be honest. "managing" a windows sytem consists mostly of rebooting and re-installing if the reboot doesn't fix the problem.
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That's a political question.
I will answer for you though. If he lives in the US then the answer is yes. I am not even an arab but I have brown skin and I get discriminated against. Oddly enough I get discrimnated for being different things. If I am in NY I am called a puerto rican, if I am out west I am discriminated because they think I am indian, if I am in OK or TX I am discrimnated because they think I am mexican.
If he has brown skin he is discriminated against. Simple as that.
And yet this was done by the republicans. You want to excuse them because the democrats "would have" done the same thing then go right ahead. Don't let the fact that they haven't actually done it stop you from anything.
My favorite.
Republican: You voted for clinton? YOu must hate america.
Me: I don't hate america, I just hate you.
Honestly!
New deal failed? News to me. SOcial security, medicare, medicaid are still around. What's worse is that I don't see any republican calling for their elimination.
As for taxes, who cares if anybody cuts taxes. As long as you don't cut spending we are just going even deeper into debt. Wake me up when a republican actually cuts spending.
"We all love our country."
No we don't only republicans love our country. Liberals hate america. They are the 'enemy within'.
I know that because it's in books, on the fox news and on the radio.
To be fair, in this and age if the govt can match your opinion to a positive ID it might not be so good for you.
All I know is that professional pollsters don't hand out the names and addresses of the people they poll.
Some weird thing about ethics or something.
His point was that the democrats haven't done something like this. If you want to excuse the republicans because you think democrats would have done the same thing (even if they havent) then it seems like you are a little bit insane.
His analogy is a little off. It's more like "Don't be too harsh on this rapist, you see that guy there, he would rape somebody too".
That's not the point is it now? The question is why is this having to speak for all the arabs and muslims here on slashdot?
Better yet, if he has to speak for all the arabs because he is an arab why don't the american geeks asked to condemn or speak about the atrocities conducted by the american govt?
"The fact of the matter is, the only reason that this is interesting to us is because of the tensions between us and the middle east. (No offense Isam Bayazidi). If these tensions weren't there, it would be the same as asking a French programmer about his day."
Right. That's exactly the point. He is an arab and because he is an arab politics was brought into the situation. Whether he likes it or not he will not be asked to condemn the actions of people he never met. Whats worse is that he has to condemn them whether he wants to or not (don't really know how he feels but that's moot isn't it?).
This poor guy is being put on the spot to speak for all arabas and all muslims.
My point is. If you are going to do that why don't you put other geeks on the spot for the actions of the christians (christian soldiers, christian governments) etc.
A christian president of a christian nation has killed tens of thousands of people and destroyed entire villages. If it's fair to ask this one guy a question about islamic extremism then why isn't it fair to ask every christian (or american) geek the same question?
A lot, more then you think.
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The question was about radicalism. The fact that arab/muslim radicalism was asked to a technologists indicates that an arab can never run away from what is happening around to world to and by other arabs.
Whether this guy likes it or not he now has to explain the actions of people he has never met, what's worse he has to speak for the entire muslim population and he has to do it in a way so as not to upset the americans who make up the majority of the
If that's not political then I don't know what is.
I don't know what to tell you. I guess ROR isn't for you. Maybe try PHP, there is a lot of documentation there. I was going to say try zope but it's even harder and the documentation is even more outdated.
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I guess there is always java. Lost of documentation there if you want to spend all your time typing everything three times.... Customer myCustomer = new CustomerFactory.createCustomer("joe").asCustomer(
Whatever you do stay away from perl though, that way lies madness.
And what makes you think technology is not politics?
I am just some random person stating his political views. Isn't that what slashdot was designed for?
"As a follow-up. How do you feel that recent world events, such as the riots in Paris, riots over Danish comics, and even the actions of terrorist organizations or Arabic origin have influenced this view, by relation to media portrayal. "
I think those are pretty minor compared to the complete destruction of an entire city like Fallujia from US bombardment don't you? I mean we bombed a city twice. First time caused soccer fields outside the city to be turned into mass graves, the second time BBC reported that 75% of the city was destroyed.
That's just two incidents, one city. It seems to me people are lacking perspective here. The protesters burned a few building and about a dozen of them got shot by the police. Compare that to what is going on in palestine, afghanistan or iraq.
"As an Arab in today's world, how do you deal with those in the Western world who further the stereotype of "Arabs As Radicals"?"
I don't see how anybody can do anything about this. This has been a weird month hasn't it?
How come all those right wing commentators went on and on about how dear freedom of speech was during the cartoon controversy and said nothing about a guy being jailed in Austria for a speech he made 17 years ago?
How come those same commentators have said precious little about the prisoners in guantanamo who not only have no free speech rights, but have no human rights whatsoever!.
I mean free speech is sacrocent but holding people without charges, lawyers, trials indefinately is perfectly OK right?
Anyway the point of this rant is that radical is in the eye of the beholder. I think GW is radical for proposing that he could point to a human being, utter his name in anger and strip that person of all human rights. Furthermore he can then ship that person to a secret prison to be tortured without being subject any law whatsoever. To me that's radical.
I don't know about "communities" but surely there must be individual arabs and israelis working together on projects.
I definately could see people choosing not to use a project that was primarily developed in Israel or an arab country for political reasons though. I have no problem with that.
"* Migrations are "database agnostic""
As long as your database is mysql. If it's anything else you have to take your chances. Postgres is supported pertty well, everybody else can go fuck themselves because it won't work at all.
Rad Rails is what you are looking for. Very nice.
During the snakes and rubies talk david was asked about admin interfaces. He said something like "ROR doesn't really need one because there is a shell and you can work directly with activerecord objects from the shell, this is better then an admin screen".
His take is that you can work right inside the framework using nothing but ruby to manipulate your activerecord objects. This should be better then directly manipulating your tables because theoretically your activerecord objects keep your relations, validations etc so your data doesn't go wonky because you are directly editing records. I think there is something to that although I think it would be nice to be able to do that through the web too.
I have been going to WWDC for three years now. Every year during the feedback sessions people always ask the same things.
1) How come you hate webobjects developers so much.
2) When are you going to get a decent package management tool or formally adopt darwinports.
Every year the answers are the same.
1) We don't really hate you guys, we really love you, we neglect webobjects on purpose.
2) We are apple, neither darwinports nor pkgsrc, nor fink is good enough for us. One day we will write a really cool one just watch.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
WTF. Why object to paying 50 bucks for a book? You get a free language, free framework, free IDE, free operating system. Just pay 50 bucks for a book and be happy.
Webobjects kicks ass. Except for one thing. The learning curve is insanely steep.
If they made the rule system more useful everything else would pale in comparison.
If Apple know what to do with webobjects rails (or even zope) would have never been invented.
What makes you think that just because you can "manage' XP you can manage Active directory and windows 2003 server. Be honest. "managing" a windows sytem consists mostly of rebooting and re-installing if the reboot doesn't fix the problem.
Who cares what the customers wanted. It's important to tie them together to MS products and achieve vendor lock as soon as possible.
I can see the typical CIO now. "well I use outlook so I better get the MS CRM!". LOL.