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My name is Aaron Hsu, and I'm a computer scientist. I'm changing the way people look at computing and programming languages, what they can do with them, and how they do it.

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Aaron W. Hsu

APL Style: Patterns and Anti-patterns in APL

I gave the following talk at Dyalog '17 this year. I think it was a lot of fun, but I had to go through the slides pretty fast. I encourage anyone interested in the topic to go through the Sway presentation more carefully in their own time. You can find

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7 months ago
Aaron W. Hsu

Reading List vs. Tabs: A Better Workflow

I have long held that having many tabs open in your browser was a poor way to work. A bunch of tiny icons filling up the top of your screen with stuff to read in whatever order you happened to get them put there just doesn't make much sense. Not

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a year ago
Aaron W. Hsu

Windows 10 Workflow Tip: Multiple Desktops and Tiling

Windows 10 has the concept of multiple desktops. This is an extremely useful feature, but I suspect that most people use multiple desktops in only one of a few ways. For most people, multiple desktops serve as an organizing method at a relatively coarse grained level. They probably have a

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2 years ago
Aaron W. Hsu

RHEL 7.2 Desktop Win

RHEL 7.2 includes a new Gnome 3.14 and incorporates some improvements from Gnome 3.16. This makes me very happy. The classic problem I have with RHEL is that it is a great development platform, with a stable interface and a good set of tools enabling very nice

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2 years ago