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Journalists and Their Coverage of FBI/Apple

Posted on 2016-03-02 by jcs

This is why my “Note to journalists” in today’s earlier post was necessary: State of tech coverage: published AFTER the FBI Director corrects his earlier lie about not seeking a precedent: pic.twitter.com/mVkXT4P3eL — Kontra (@counternotions) March 2, 2016

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Judge Orenstein Rules

Posted on 2016-03-02 by jcs

By now you will have heard that Federal Magistrate Judge James Orenstein of the Eastern District of New York has ruled in case parallel to the San Bernardino case involving the FBI and Apple. At issue in the San Bernardino … Continue reading →

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Lisp Family Tree

Posted on 2016-03-01 by jcs

Via Jean-Philippe Paradis, a nice chart of the relationships between various Lisps. Hey #lisp, thanks to help from @RainerJoswig and others I've created a graph which illustrates CL implementations :) pic.twitter.com/CKA35vAe5y — Daniel Kochmański (@dk_jackdaniel) February 12, 2016

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Reading Mailing Lists

Posted on 2016-02-29 by jcs

In my never ending quest to move every conceivable task into Emacs, I came across this Emacs Stack Exchange entry on reading mailing list archives with Emacs. That turns out to be pretty easy to do. The trick is to … Continue reading →

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A Tip for Mac/Emacs Users

Posted on 2016-02-28 by jcs

Here’s a nice tip for Emacs users on OS X: (setq mac-right-alternate-modifier nil)Use #OSX extended character entry with right alt/option/meta key in #emacs/cc @toxi — ⸘Jack Rusher‽ (@jackrusher) February 22, 2016

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Apple Responds

Posted on 2016-02-28 by jcs

Irreal readers are certainly aware of the latest drama playing out between the FBI and Apple. The FBI applied, ex parte, to a federal magistrate for an order compelling Apple to assist the FBI in breaking into an iPhone 5C … Continue reading →

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Moving Files Asynchronously in Dired

Posted on 2016-02-27 by jcs

Sometimes you want to copy a set of files from Dired in Emacs. If you have one or two files you can simply mark and copy them but if there are many files it can take some time for the … Continue reading →

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Science vs. Everything Else

Posted on 2016-02-26 by jcs

Via Karl Voit we have sad commentary on the human condition.

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Mickey on use-package

Posted on 2016-02-26 by jcs

Mickey has a new post over at Mastering Emacs on John Wiegley’s excellent use-package package. For those who don’t know, use-package is a macro that organizes and simplifies package loading and configuration. It can also delay the loading of a … Continue reading →

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Lisp in Production

Posted on 2016-02-25 by jcs

If you’re a Lisper, you’ve probably heard many times that it’s not practical to use Lisp in production. Despite the many counter examples (Viaweb, ITA, …) this myth—like the one about Lisp being slow—refuses to die. Vsevolod Dyomkin and Kevin … Continue reading →

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