Author Archives: jcs

Crossword

Posted on 2015-08-18 by jcs

For all you puzzle constructors out there: How to create a crossword puzzle in LaTeX http://t.co/0BdZcYhRyA — TeX tips (@TeXtip) July 7, 2015 The cwpuzzle makes it really easy to typeset a crossword puzzle. If you want to try your … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Professional Writers

Posted on 2015-08-18 by jcs

Last time, I wrote about how Bin Chen writes in Org mode and exports the final document to Word doc format. Most engineers are spared the indignity of having to produce Word documents but if you’re a writer producing anything … Continue reading →

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How to Convert from Org to Word

Posted on 2015-08-17 by jcs

If you’re like me, you’d rather take a pencil in the eye than write using Word or any of its evil spawn. Sometimes, though, you really need to deliver a doc file. Even in a lead engineer position I sometimes … Continue reading →

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WiFi on a Rifle

Posted on 2015-08-16 by jcs

What could go wrong?

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Lenovo Again

Posted on 2015-08-16 by jcs

Remember all those apologies from Lenovo after their stealth installation of the SuperFish adware was revealed? Apparently they didn’t really mean them. As the old saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Unless … Continue reading →

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A Word to the Wise

Posted on 2015-08-15 by jcs

Advertisers: clean up your act or look forward to a future like this Ad exec in 2000: Annoying ads perform better. in 2010: Ads based on tracking users perform better. in 2017: Why are all our ads blocked? — Brian Smith (@BRIAN_____) … Continue reading →

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Where Work Goes to Die

Posted on 2015-08-15 by jcs

Swizec Teller has an amusing article in DZone on Why Offices Are Where Work Goes to Die. The article is, as I say, amusing but it also mines several nuggets of truth. Irreal, as you doubtless know to your sorrow, … Continue reading →

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The No Irony Zone

Posted on 2015-08-14 by jcs

@drkjam @fgunay1 pic.twitter.com/ZH486vRxzR — Orestis Bastounis (@MrBastounis) July 17, 2015

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Emacs as an OS

Posted on 2015-08-14 by jcs

Daniele Sluijters says: People make fun of #emacs calling it an OS, but why do you call #Xcode that's actually bigger than #osx an IDE? — Daniele Sluijters (@daenney) August 3, 2015 He has a point but I don’t think … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Flycheck

Posted on 2015-08-13 by jcs

If you’re a Flymake user, Mickey over at Mastering Emacs has some advice for you: switch to Flycheck. It’s a drop in replacement for Flymake that has better out-of-the-box language support and is faster. Mickey says that for him the … Continue reading →

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