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superskierpat

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About superskierpat

I'm a computer science student in Montreal, Canada. I'm fascinated by functionnal programming and artificial intelligence.

Other interests include teaching alpine skiing, science fiction, history and crafts beer.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #11580807

    On the topic of typescript vs purescript and similar projects, I believe these projects are more for people who want to stay in the same mindset across the whole stack. So haskell …

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    Comment #11559834

    That or a video game. Could easily be a mix of adventure / puzzle with some action thrown in (Places like the forest, the moon, the underdream and kadath)

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    Comment #11559829

    It can really be annoying.. They break so many simple static websites that I can only use my phone for a limited ammount of websites (I use orfox with orbot and noscript, as I'm a …

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    Comment #11556166

    Dream Quest felt really different from the rest, but I really liked it as well. I was reading a collection of all his short stories at the time and it's pretty cool to see little s…

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    Comment #11549740

    Interesting, though unfortunately they seem to be mostly adverts from the author's eg: Ronda Rousey, Donald Trump.. or adverts for friend's of the author eg Julia Louis-Dreyfus.. B…

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    Comment #11523436

    I like this, a little bit like what a relational filesystem would feel like.

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    Comment #11500893

    Though vim (and neovim) has the same plugins these days. I've been using paredit and it works great.

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    Comment #11500815

    This makes the project alot more interesting to me.

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    Comment #11489202

    Well except for the code cleanup and the more extensive scripting options ;) I've been a happy neovim user for a few months now, but I'm still glad to see that vim is keeping itsel…

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    Comment #11367939

    I recently rewrote many of my shell scripts in guile, a really fun experience. And tail call recursion makes it pretty easy to reason about the code, no more looking up bash cheat …

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    Comment #11362340

    Thats mostly why I use hakyll, it's just a library that gives functions to build your own generator, so you can write out your own rules in haskell (Pretty simply for the most part…

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    Comment #11352845

    Hmm not sure if it tallies all the dependencie times, but taskwarrior has dependency management

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    Comment #11352836

    Suprised nobody has mentionned taskwarrior[1] yet! Its very flexible and can even be kept on a server. For example I've got it set up so giving it a link automatically puts in the …

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    Comment #11298259

    Makes it look like there is still a big difference between the north and the south.

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    Comment #11298248

    Sorry I'm from quebec, I'll be more careful.

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    Comment #11297845

    Can someone explain to me why the media constantly uses the word landslide to describe hillaries victories? I mean, looking at the results, I see that, superdelegates aside, most o…

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    Comment #11283244

    From my experience, modding implies a lot of experimentation, you're often playing with unknown rules as there are very often big gaps in the documentation and you only have other …

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    Comment #11207022

    Hmm havent done any python since I've installed it, have you tried using it in conjuncture with jedi-vim?

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    Comment #11206892

    Looking for a challenge, I'm a fast learner and I'm interested in various domains (functionnal programming, operating systems, web backend, ai) Location: Montreal, Qc Remote: Yes W…

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    Comment #11200585

    Well either run the swf file in the git repo or compile it yourself (Youll need the openfl library) Fair warning, it's pretty rubish, being my first experience building a game and …

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    Comment #11200570

    Cool! I've mostly switched to neovim these days (Even wrote a blog post about it: http://patrickmarchand.com/posts/neovim-tuto.html ) Thanks for the good work.

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    Comment #11198545

    I remember convincing my teacher to let me use haxe instead of flash for a multimedia course. It went pretty well (Got an A) and it allowed me to use vim (with the vaxe plugin) Her…

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    Comment #11175317

    Duckduckgo has a safe filter that blocks porn and a few other things from showing up in the search results that works pretty well, you can decide to take it off at any time too. Th…

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    Comment #11167459

    Cant wait for the various tox clients to stabilize.

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    Comment #11138941

    For those looking at the where to start ( http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/08/state-of-haskell-ecosys... ) link in the post, here is the more up to date github repository ( https:…