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About aban

Amin Bandali -- https://aminb.org

Computer Scientist. Into Haskell and Elisp.

topcolor: ffbb33 (previously c6c6c6)

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/amin; my proof: https://keybase.io/amin/sigs/UYO-kN31F2vPwJvP8DYLwTeGBihIAV6FjcWIU5QLryY ]

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    Not to disagree; but if you use Firefox, PDF.js has some convenient shortcuts [0]: n/j to go to next page, and p/k to go to previous page. Works quite nicely for flipping through P…

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    Comment #17590148

    I've never used Org Timeline, but these two links may be of interest to you: - https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/7hps9j/rip_orgtime... - https://github.com/Fuco1/org-timeli…

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    Comment #17178413

    Slides: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-libreplanet-practical...

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    Comment #17173009

    An Introduction to Lean [0] is another nice (albeit incomplete) tutorial. There’s a fairly active community over on Zulip [1] if you like to drop by for a chat or get some help. [0…

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    Comment #17000203

    Security clearance not as in the kind that you need to work government jobs. Security clearance as in "basic" background checks.

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    Comment #16333195

    Thank you so much for sharing this. This, and When Worlds Collide, are some of the most touching pieces I've ever read. Rest in peace John.

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    Comment #15590825

    They have a couple of screenshots on their website [0]. [0]: http://www.nplproject.com

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    Comment #15151450

    See https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 .

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    Comment #14626518

    Great talk. For more on concurrency and parallelism in Haskell, check out Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell [0], deemed as the best book on the subject, also written b…

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    Comment #14618619

    Neat. Somewhat related is hnix [0], a community effort in re-implementing the Nix expression language in Haskell. While so far the focus has mostly been on implementing the express…

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    Comment #14482078

    For more on Rosette I recommend watching Emina's keynotes at the (sixth RacketCon) [0] and Clojure/west 2017 [1]. [0]: http://con.racket-lang.org/2016/#speakers [1]: https://www.yo…

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    Comment #14316395

    Discussion on /r/haskell: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/6a5e0v/dynamic_dis...

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    Comment #14277650

    Agreed. I feel like the state of documentation of Haskell libraries in general could be much better. There was actually a thread on /r/haskell a few months ago [0] in response to a…

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    Comment #14200382

    You're welcome :)

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    Comment #14193364

    Whenever the Feynman Algorithm comes up, I'm tempted to share "Stop Treading Water: Learning to Learn" [0] by Edward Kmett. It's a great talk and I highly recommend it if you haven…

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    Comment #14010466

    Of course not! The color scheme [0] is my fork of tango-plus [1] with a few small changes. [0]: https://github.com/aminb/tango-plus-theme [1]: https://github.com/tmalsburg/tango-pl…

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    Comment #14010453

    Iosevka is indeed a very pretty typeface. I've been using it for a while now and been really enjoying it. Here's some Dafny code for your viewing pleasure: https://i.imgur.com/clxU…

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    Comment #13960671

    That's a good explanation of Monoids. You can also watch (at least the first half) of this video for more on Monoids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsA7GtUQeB8 There are already …

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    Comment #13904640

    It was indeed 12.04 and only affecting Unity (Canonical's Desktop Environment), not other DE's like GNOME or KDE. You should check out https://fixubuntu.com nonetheless, which surf…

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    Comment #13405563

    With Vimperator you can remap the keys as you wish [0]; e.g. noremap 2k noremap 2j To do the same in VimFx, see [1]. Also, Conkeror [2] to Emacs is as qutebrowser is to Vim. [0]: h…

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    Comment #13271034

    Previous discussion (from 6 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230508

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    Comment #13264981

    Done. No problems!

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    Comment #13263126

    You can come hang out in #lobsters on freenode and ask for one. I can invite you both if you like.