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2 months ago | 
bbc.com | Azadeh Moshiri |Usman Zahid |Kamil Khan Dayan
Could AI text alerts help save snow leopards from extinction? Azadeh Moshiri, Usman Zahid and Kamil Khan DayanReporting fromGilgit-BaltistanBBCLovely is one of between 4,000 and 6,000 snow leopards on the planetSnow leopards cannot growl. So when we step towards one of these fierce predators, she's purring. "Lovely," as she's called, was orphaned and rescued 12 years ago in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
bbc.com | Azadeh Moshiri |Usman Zahid
Afghans hiding in Pakistan live in fear of forced deportationAzadeh Moshiri and Usman ZahidBBC"Nabila's" father served in the Afghan military and her family fear being deported back to Afghanistan "I'm scared," sobs Nabila. The 10-year-old's life is limited to her one-bedroom home in Islamabad and the dirt road outside it. Since December she hasn't been to her local school, when it decided it would no longer accept Afghans without a valid Pakistani birth certificate.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Caroline Davies |Usman Zahid
A man armed with an AK-47 assault rifle waves us down an alley. We’re in a small village in eastern Pakistan, to meet someone who says he can tell us how Sara Sharif’s family managed to hide from police for more than four weeks during an international police hunt. He was the one who hid them, he tells us. For nearly a month, police searched for the family of eight - Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, her stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik, along with five of her siblings.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
msn.com | Caroline Davies |Usman Zahid
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
dev.to | Usman Zahid
Ever heard of the Justin Beiber problem in database design? You might also be wondering what a celebrity has to do with the database world. I was also shocked by this but the problem is actually pretty interesting and will give you insight into another database problem that you may optimize. The problem began on Instagram when Justin Bieber posted photos on Instagram and he would get millions of likes in a short period of time.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
dev.to | Usman Zahid
As developers, when we use a git platform and sync the changes to the remote, we add a new branch, push it, and set it upstream the first time, but then all we do is write this command, again and again. git add . && git commit -m "I didn't do it" && git push And I have been writing for long enough and one day I thought why not make an alias of it?
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
dev.to | Usman Zahid
As software developers, we're constantly on the lookout for tools that can boost our productivity and streamline our coding workflows. One such tool that has gained popularity recently is GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant. However, for those who prefer open-source alternatives or are looking to save costs, there are indeed viable options available. I recently found myself in a similar situation. After researching GitHub Copilot, I discovered that it comes with a price tag.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
dev.to | Usman Zahid
Hey there, fellow programmers! Let's dive into a question that's been on my mind since day one of my coding journey: Does the programming language really matter? I remember when I was just starting out, looking around wondering which language to learn. And what language does what? But here's the kicker - I discovered something way cooler along the way. Want to hear about it? So, does a programming language really matter? Well, yes and no. Confused yet?
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May 31, 2024 | 
cribl.io | Usman Zahid
An oft-forgotten component of robust, production-ready code is testing. The moat protects us from costly service interruptions and fortifies trust in our product with our customers. Simply put, it’s in the critical path of damn good software. However, as we scale a cloud product to serve a rapidly growing user base, our test case scenarios scale correspondingly. As far as testing goes, end-to-end (E2E) testing most closely mirrors the end-user experience.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
medium.com | Usman Zahid |Mehmet Yildiz
Protest into StrategySteal in a way that you are praised for it!Imagine that you are going to steal something from someone, something like copyrighted content. And not just from one victim but from millions. You steal art from millions of artists, you steal images from photographers, you steal billions of lines of open source code, you steal the work of bloggers for guides and other stuff and you also steal the voice of writers, sounds hard right? What could be a possible way to do just that?
