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Introduction to PGP Video

Posted on 2015-01-11 by jcs

The good folks over at New York Emacs Meetup have posted their monthly talk. This time, it’s George Brocklehurst with a talk entitled A Pretty Good Introduction to Pretty Good Privacy. It’s a mostly narrated slide show, although there are … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday

Posted on 2015-01-10 by jcs

Happy birthday to one of my heroes. Keep on doing what you’re doing.

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Open-Offices: Still Going Strong

Posted on 2015-01-10 by jcs

The Washington Post has a nice article by Lindsey Kaufman entitled Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. As the title suggests, the article is a crie de coeur on the horrors of the open-office. Kaufman … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2015-01-09 by jcs

Well, really it’s from 2010 but still pithy and worth revisiting: I am currently working in Java to re-implement an algorithm I prototyped in lisp. If I replace all of the required curly-braces and semicolons in Java with parens it … Continue reading →

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Using AUCTeX

Posted on 2015-01-08 by jcs

Before I started using Org-mode for most of my writing, I typeset everything using groff. I occasionally used TeX but very little LaTeX. One of my New Year Resolutions is to learn more LaTeX. My recent post on Piotr Kaźmierczak’s … Continue reading →

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Org Mode for Research Papers

Posted on 2015-01-07 by jcs

Vikas Rawal has an excellent introduction to using Org-mode for writing academic research papers. Rawal is mainly interested in statistical studies so his introduction emphasizes R but not in a way that excludes using his notes for other languages. Almost … Continue reading →

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Looking for a Fancier Mode Line?

Posted on 2015-01-06 by jcs

Here’s a Stack Exchange post that tells you how.

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SBCL 1.2.7 Is Out

Posted on 2015-01-06 by jcs

It’s the beginning of the month so there’s a new version of Steel Bank Common Lisp available at the usual place. The nicest improvement, I think, is that you can now restart frames in the debugger. As usual, there are … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Emacs Development

Posted on 2015-01-05 by jcs

Back when Emacs moved from Bazzar to git, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote a short introduction to Emacs development. I meant to write about it but lost track of the post. Happily, I’ve found it again and am posting about it to … Continue reading →

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Finite State Machine Parsers

Posted on 2015-01-04 by jcs

Back when I was programming network code in C, one of my favorite strategies was to to implement protocol processing as a finite state machine. I found the design was always easier to understand and modify, often by simply changing … Continue reading →

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