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psibi··on A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother
> Gandhi promoted caste apartheid and actively went on a hunger strike to prevent 'lower castes'/'untouchables' from getting representation in Parliament.

Any source where I can read more about this ? Never heard this part about Gandhi.

psibi··on Google's Plan to Make Tech Less Addictive
So what exactly is the solution you want? Do you want google to block the service after a threshold period of time.
psibi··on Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks
Physical education. In India, in our schools it mostly meant playing Soccer.
psibi··on Show HN: Emacs Anywhere
This is amazing, I have always wanted something like this. Given that it requires xdotool, I was wondering if it would work in a Wayland system (I don't use Wayland yet, I'm just curious) ?
psibi··on Why Create a New Unix Shell?
Looks nice! Any reason why Apache was used as it's license ?
psibi··on Making GHC an order of magnitude faster with one neat trick
Yeah, infact I remember seeing Cabal warn when O2 is put.
psibi··on F-Droid 1.0 released
Thanks, that was helpful.
psibi··on F-Droid 1.0 released
Any idea how does Slide compare with Red Reader, which is another Reddit client in Android ?
psibi··on Making a GTK Video Player with Haskell
Besides the example stated here, there is also shellcheck: https://www.shellcheck.net/
psibi··on Base-4 fractions in Telugu
Disclaimer: A Tamilian but doesn't know to read or write it (lived in the northern states)

I didn't know that it came before Telugu or neither about the fact that Malayalam or Kannada is derived from it. So yeah, it was a new information for me.

psibi··on Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
Mine is a OnePlus 2 device.
psibi··on Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
Haven't tried if it works but my android version (6.0.1) seems to have an option for disabling internet for specific apps. Note that I haven't rooted (yet). Going to Settings -> Data Usage -> Settings will show me a list of apps and I can chose between following four options Allow, Forbidden, Wi-Fi only and Data only.
psibi··on Why Elm? [pdf]
This is a big problem IMO and one of the major reason why I haven't used Elm in any serious projects yet
psibi··on Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
Is there a easy way of converting it into Kindle friendly pdf (or mobi) ?
psibi··on The trouble with FreeBSD
> If LWN had fewer articles like this, and more articles actually communicating useful information to me, I might actually read it more.

As a occasional reader of LWN, I like the fact that they cover other topics apart from LWN. It's always good to learn/see how other communities operate.

psibi··on Eta – A powerful language for building scalable systems on the JVM
While sharing the post, I did mention Haskell in the title to give a better picture. But I think the mods changed it.
psibi··on Eta – A powerful language for building scalable systems on the JVM
This might be helpful:

* https://github.com/typelead/eta/blob/master/docs/source/faq....

* https://github.com/typelead/eta/issues/3

psibi··on Eta – A powerful language for building scalable systems on the JVM
This is the relevant github repository: https://github.com/typelead/eta

And this is the blog post from the co-founder of Typelead (the company behind Eta) discussing about it: https://blog.typelead.com/https-blog-typelead-com-introducin...

psibi··on FreeDOS 1.2
I occasionally play Dave using it. :-)
psibi··on High-speed Wi-Fi rolls into 100th railway station in India
I used the ones in Chennai and it was pretty good. When the Vardha cyclone hit Chennai, most of the local ISPs went down (the internet in my area is still down). The internet at the railways was working good.
psibi··on Mastering Time-to-Market with Haskell
It's hard to measure these types of things. But if you are interested, there is a related paper regarding that: http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Haskel...

Although the study in the paper isn't very practical, it's still an interesting experiment.

psibi··on Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet?
Same here. My dad has been using Ubuntu for more than 5 years now.
psibi··on Systemd programming, 30 months later
As someone who uses NixOS now and then, I disagree with you. Right now, NixOS itself is for expert users. The installation itself will be problematic for non expert users.
psibi··on Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change
As someone who doesn't follow the BSD development nor the LLVM, I don't know whether to take this as a sarcastic comment or a serious one.
psibi··on Bash 4.4 released
Does that mean doing `Ctrl + R` can be colorized now just like how zsh does it ?
psibi··on React Router v4 FAQ
Is there any other Router library for React which has a stable API ? We are most likely to include a router library in our application soon and we don't want something which changes frequently.
psibi··on Intero for Emacs: complete interactive development program for Haskell
What features do you think stack misses ?
psibi··on Functional Programming Jargon
Also I don't think the definition of Monad itself is accurate there.
psibi··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
What do you think about functional languages like Haskell, OCaml etc ?
psibi··on Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs
What does isomorphic library mean in the context of Javascript ecosystem ?
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