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New comment by abdulhaq in "The Soul of an Old Machine"

abdulhaq — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:00:08 +0000

I found Showstopper! even more compelling

New comment by abdulhaq in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

abdulhaq — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:29:54 +0000

> Sometimes the interpolated detail is wrong

you just (correctly) negated your own claim

New comment by abdulhaq in "Israel Is Attacking Iran"

abdulhaq — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:17:33 +0000

Israel _creates_ extreme right Islamist ideology as a reaction to its genocidal and expansionist behavior.

New comment by abdulhaq in "ThinkNext Design"

abdulhaq — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:26:39 +0000

Yes she's fine thanks, one of the docs kindly dragged himself to the unit and plucked the thing out with some forceps :-)

New comment by abdulhaq in "ThinkNext Design"

abdulhaq — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:33:05 +0000

When she was 4 my daughter managed to shove one of those trackpad caps up her nose. At first she was going for the clown look but ended up in frantic tears and a visit to A&E at 2am

New comment by abdulhaq in "Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13"

abdulhaq — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:32:50 +0000

You might be right but the gallery owner has probably learnt that disputing the authenticity of his pieces with walk in punters rarely leads to a fruitful discussion

New comment by abdulhaq in "Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI"

abdulhaq — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:51:57 +0000

Actually, back in the day Andersens (and EDS) were some of the few companies that could deliver really big systems (for all their faults) e.g. https://accountancyage.com/2000/03/16/andersen-consulting-to... . Each year a number of analysts had nervous breakdowns, I worked with one of them.

New comment by abdulhaq in "Data General History by Foster"

abdulhaq — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:59:58 +0000

For anyone who has read about this period, such as The Soul Of A New Machine, there's some great stories on this site.

New comment by abdulhaq in "Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages"

abdulhaq — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:32:06 +0000

That's a fair question, for one thing white space is often important and sometimes very important, so we need spacing to be very clear. Also it can be useful to have vertical alignment to indicate a pattern in the code or data.

New comment by abdulhaq in "Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages"

abdulhaq — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:27:03 +0000

lol

New comment by abdulhaq in "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]"

abdulhaq — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:18:59 +0000

Sn act of Providence means an act of God expressed in this way so as not to disturb those who don't like to talk about God

New comment by abdulhaq in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

abdulhaq — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:49:22 +0000

To me, in the UK, it sounds like there is an opportunity here for some sort of centralised representation and/or app that can fight claims for people

New comment by abdulhaq in "Lost Jack Kerouac story found among assassinated mafia boss' belongings"

abdulhaq — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:46:47 +0000

When I was a physics student at Oxford in 1983-86 I was a voracious reader and the Beats figured in that. Ginsberg travelled through Oxford for a day or two and gave some street performances. His nephew (Vincent?) was travelling with him, playing guitar IIRC. I must admit, I had my concerns at the time.

New comment by abdulhaq in "A liver transplant from start to finish"

abdulhaq — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:12:48 +0000

Tie that kidney off for me would you please nurse, my date is waiting for me. Two bowlines and a sheepshank should suffice.

New comment by abdulhaq in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

abdulhaq — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:06:42 +0000

I loved the Quarterdeck stuff especially Desqview

New comment by abdulhaq in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

abdulhaq — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:07:58 +0000

Fortunately the world has woken up and the coming generation sees the truth.

New comment by abdulhaq in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

abdulhaq — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:41:15 +0000

Ethnic cleansing is deeply wrong, starvation as a tactic of war is horribly wrong, we all know what's happening, please have some respect for peoples' intelligence.

New comment by abdulhaq in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

abdulhaq — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:48:05 +0000

even if it was true, and the charities say it is not, would that make it OK to starve the people of Gaza?

New comment by abdulhaq in "Why I gave the world wide web away for free"

abdulhaq — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:33:51 +0000

The www was a fairly obvious idea that was just waiting for the right technology to power It. It would not have been possible to keep it to yourself and charge for it.

New comment by abdulhaq in "A recent chess controversy"

abdulhaq — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:42:39 +0000