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Cool Fact of the Day

Posted on 2016-09-04 by jcs

Matthew Anderson is right: I didn’t know I knew this but I do Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know: pic.twitter.com/Ex0Ui9oBSL — Matthew Anderson (@MattAndersonBBC) September 3, 2016 Hat tip to Karl Voit.

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Zamansky on Keyboard Macros

Posted on 2016-09-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about keyboard macros. I’m always inclined to think that everyone knows all about them but I keep reading tweets about people discovering their power and being … Continue reading →

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Computerphile: Unrolling Loops

Posted on 2016-09-02 by jcs

Professor Brailsford of Computerphile has an interesting short video on unrolling loops. He motivates the discussion by relating a story about the introduction of the Laserwriter. John Warnock, from Adobe, and Steve Jobs planned to show off the Laserwriter’s capabilities … Continue reading →

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Random Medical News

Posted on 2016-09-01 by jcs

From John Cook we have this bit of humor that also has the feel of truth: pic.twitter.com/ElqdpI9ywg — John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) August 5, 2016 I’m old enough that I can remember at least 3 cycles of Coffee is good … Continue reading →

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Escaping Org Examples in Org

Posted on 2016-08-31 by jcs

From Karl Voit we have this really useful piece of advice: TIL: you can use "org" blocks to write #orgmode examples and org-edit-special resulting in correct escaping: https://t.co/oeIR1sccfZ — Karl Voit (@n0v0id) August 30, 2016 If you follow the link … Continue reading →

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Two New König Videos

Posted on 2016-08-30 by jcs

Rainer König has posted two new videos in his OrgMode Tutorial series. Unfortunately for him but fortunately for us it’s raining in Augsburg so König has had to forego gardening in favor of making more of his excellent Org Mode … Continue reading →

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Configuring Emacs for PHP

Posted on 2016-08-29 by jcs

Ben Simon has a nice post on setting up Emacs for PHP. I don’t write in PHP and have no plans to start but Simon says it’s hard to get an intelligent setup for it that works for all PHP … Continue reading →

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Common Lisp and Pink Floyd

Posted on 2016-08-28 by jcs

Common Lisp and Pink Floyd. How could it get better than that?

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Resistance is Futile…

Posted on 2016-08-27 by jcs

…you will be assimilated: What is the opposite of #emacs evil-mode? I mapped Ctrl-A & Ctrl-E in #Vim to beginning/ end of line did I do something dirty? — Thom Nichols (@thom_nic) August 10, 2016

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Data Sharing in Publications

Posted on 2016-08-26 by jcs

John Kitchin has a really interesting article in ACS Catalysis on Effective Data Sharing in Scientific Publishing. In it, Kitchin discusses various strategies for embedding supporting data—such as tables and processing code—in a publication’s PDF or source file so that … Continue reading →

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