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LaTeX Templates

Posted on 2015-06-08 by jcs

If you’re a beginning or intermediate LaTeX user, you can probably produce pretty nice looking documents as long as the document is one of the standard types. If you want to produce slightly unusual documents—a homework assignment or résumé, say—you’ll … Continue reading →

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Prevent Encryption Above All Else

Posted on 2015-06-07 by jcs

Michael Steinbach, assistant director in the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, recently testified that law enforcement’s challenge is working with tech companies to prevent encryption above all else. I take that to mean that he’s taking exception to companies like Apple providing … Continue reading →

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Why You Shouldn’t Use the Cloud

Posted on 2015-06-06 by jcs

Karl Voit has a nice post that tells us why we shouldn’t trust or use the cloud. There are lots of reasons why we might want to use the cloud and most of us are familiar with them: lots of … Continue reading →

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Writing a Master Thesis in Org Mode

Posted on 2015-06-05 by jcs

One way or another, I end up using Org mode for almost all my writing. Blog posts are easy to write in Org and then export with org2blog, and Org brings all the power of LaTeX with an easier interface. … Continue reading →

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A System Wide Org Capture Key

Posted on 2015-06-04 by jcs

Over at Think *NIX, PRJ2 has a nice post on setting up a system wide key to invoke Org capture. The idea is that even if Emacs isn’t running it will be launched and Org capture automatically called. He assigns … Continue reading →

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The Future is S-expressions

Posted on 2015-06-03 by jcs

Jean-Philippe Paradis makes an astute observation: .@PuercoPop After XML→JSON, next step is JSON→sexp. There'll be unnecessary intermediary steps but the world's asymptotically getting there. — Jean-PhilippeParadis (@HexstreamSoft) May 7, 2015 For some time, I’ve recommended JSON because it’s a sort … Continue reading →

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Email Templates with Yasnippet

Posted on 2015-06-03 by jcs

Bin Chen is a busy guy and as a freelancer he gets lots of emails offering jobs. Each type of reply is mostly the same as all the others of that type so it makes sense to automate those replies … Continue reading →

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Metadata

Posted on 2015-06-02 by jcs

When they tell you it’s just metadata, show them this Sen. McConnell argues that 215 spying is not a problem since its 'just metadata.' Wrong – metadata matters. pic.twitter.com/XsSa0en1XE — Kurt Opsahl (@kurtopsahl) May 31, 2015

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Reproducible Research in the Small

Posted on 2015-06-02 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of reproducible research and have written about it many times. I usually think of it as something you do with a large project that is going to produce one or more … Continue reading →

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Nothing to Hide

Posted on 2015-06-01 by jcs

Edward Snowden has a nice rejoinder for those who say they aren’t worried about government surveillance because they have nothing to hide (via Jean-PhilippeParadis): In One Quote, Edward Snowden Just Destroyed the Biggest Myth About Privacy #Snowden http://t.co/dfthA4kMBd pic.twitter.com/7RbIp4sw9b — Help Edward … Continue reading →

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