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It is scientific, just not experimental science which is limited. Look up Islam's Isnad system to learn more. There is nothing like it in any other tradition, faith or historic or otherwise. If you only follow experimental science, then you follow the religion of scientism, which only give a partial picture, and sometimes even an incorrect picture.

Yes, politics plays a huge role. I've seen it play out that way many times.

> And yet it seems to be evangelized more fervently than ever in academic institutions, governments, journalism, etc.

When you know the agendas and world views of those same people, everything starts to make sense. It's quite unfortunate to say the least, but hopefully more people wake up.

> Oh yeah? Then why did they feel compelled to kill a young woman for the "horrible crime" of not covering her hair?

Why are you asking me? Did I defend the corruption of such a regime anywhere in what I wrote? In fact, I stated the opposite. The incident should be investigated, and those responsible should face justice.

> It's not actually mandatory for Westerners to have unprotected sex with every woman whose hair we can see

No one said it is mandatory, but the results are clear for spreading immorality in the land.

Your last statement is pure bigotry and Islamophobic and racist. If you don't want to learn, I hope someone else who comes across this conversation has an open mind.

My religion brought enlightenment into the world, and you benefit from it to this very day. Read up about the Islamic Golden Age for an intro.

I agree with you. But do you think most people are going to afford purchasing even remotely anywhere near that price point?

golang has quite the suspect decisions that show up when writing large programs https://www.uber.com/blog/data-race-patterns-in-go/

Anything can suggest a specific meaning when someone has an agenda. I'm not playing these games.

There are many proofs. But some people are too blind or too proud to see them. You can check out provingislam.com for a teaser.

It does, but it's nice to see that software engineering is officially codified by the IEEE :-)

The slippery slope is real. And as far as we're concerned, taking the Hijab away is one very obvious step in that direction. Just look at history.

I'm not defending the Iranian regime by the way.

You're straw manning to assume that the Hijab's only reason is lack of self control. It's one part of many things that we have in Islam to preserve morality and purity. For example, both men and women are ordered to lower their gaze.

I'm not moralizing here. I'm defending my religion and land from the assumption of the secular west that they're here to liberate us from "oppression".

I agree with you overall, but it’s still a problem that they’re selling books on how to attempt suicide

Bad analogy. It’s already established that there are innate differences between males and females even shortly after birth, and that translates to different behavioral outcomes and career preferences.

Discrimination is discrimination

The freedom to get naked in the streets yeah? Thanks but no thanks.

You’re correct that our goals and culture that promotes purity and piety is more important than what the secular West defines as “freedom”

Ah yes, the typical astounding secular definition of freedom, equating it with nakedness and vices. I’ll tell you something, the vast majority of the Saudis are proud of the Hijab and their Islamic faith that promotes purity and decency. We don’t want the western definition of “freedom” thank you very much, we’ve seen where it leads

What you mention as considerable advantages might apply for someone coming from Python or Ruby. For many of us in Java or C# land, what they have is already much better.

> after years of hearing that the test is biased towards white / Anglo / native-English speakers raised in Western culture.

Media bias/lies. It's similar for the GRE, many people coming in from China score extremely high on the English portion even though they do not speak English properly. I learned to stop listening to these divisive media outlets that have a clear agenda to tear down the fabric of society.

The first question that comes to mind is why has mental illness been substantially increasing recently over the past few decades? Something about our lifestyle definitely contributes to it.

Ethical mortgage company is an oxymoron :-)

I think it might have more to do with the actual content than the animation. A lot of today's trash on youtube that parents leave their kids watch unattended is dangerous, and seems to promote ADD.

Thankfully, there are still youtube channels with shows and cartoons we grew up with, so parents can show those to their kids instead of today's trash.

Could the fact that they have higher salaries have anything to do with it? Offer higher salaries and you'll attract stronger talent, regardless of the leetcode hoops they have to jump through.

> I have seen quite a few programs either fail or nearly fail because of the choice to use something like Python

I'm not surprised, it is very difficult to scale Python to larger teams and projects. I mean people have done it to some degree, but at what cost?

It's much better to stick with a static language like Java or C#. You mentioned pattern matching and discriminated unions at the end of your post, which Java has recently gained, and C# to an extent as well.

The issues that C faces in terms of memory correctness do not occur in Java. You can use tools like `perf` on a Java program, and I don't see why you couldn't use valgrind for natively compiled Java programs.

For debugging and observability, tell me if C (or any other platform) has anything resembling JFR for the JVM.

golang and C would take that spot :-)

Records, pattern matching, string templates, and more to come for Java for which the other two have nothing equivalent.

The exception the proves the rule?

Java is one of the very few languages out there that is manageable and debuggable at the large scales you're talking about. The tooling around it is second to none, and because it is statically typed with a decent type system, you can refactor quite safely in general.

And let's be frank, XML, other than for Maven (where it can make sense), is not really a thing in modern Java.

Java has `jshell`.

I disagree about framing it as the top few. I recommend you look into Islam's Zakat system for something that actually works, and is fair across the board.

I think this is as ironic as pharmacies selling cigarettes.