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Formula 1 Communication Technology

Posted on 2014-08-17 by jcs

I’ve said it before: I’m not a racing fan. And yet, I’ve already written about it twice before and here I go again. This post, like the others, focuses on the technical aspects of the sport. According to this BBC … Continue reading →

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Computing the Inner Product with Common Lisp

Posted on 2014-08-16 by jcs

Over at iqool, Patrick Krusenotto asks how you would compute the inner product of two vectors using Common Lisp. He gives a number of solutions, all of which are interesting. You can look at this problem two ways: What is … Continue reading →

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TIL: Something New About Ace Jump Mode

Posted on 2014-08-15 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’ve been a huge fan of ace-jump-mode ever since I saw it demonstrated by Magnor Sveen in one of his celebrated Emacs Rocks! episodes. More recently, I’ve been using it all the time as a replacement … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Links

Posted on 2014-08-14 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has a great post on using Org-mode links to link to anything. It’s a hugely powerful facility that, as Malabarba says, is mostly unknown. Head over to Endless Parentheses for the details. I wasn’t going to write about … Continue reading →

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John Kitchin on Using Org Mode

Posted on 2014-08-13 by jcs

I’ve written about John Kitchin and his use of Emacs and org-mode several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Somehow I missed his latest contribution but Sacha Chua had my back and mentioned it in her weekly review. In his … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chats with Harry R. Schwartz

Posted on 2014-08-12 by jcs

Sacha Chua has posted the latest in her series of Emacs Chats. This time it’s with Harry R. Schwartz. Schwartz is one of the organizers of Emacs NYC, which holds meetings and produces videos of the talks that the participants … Continue reading →

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Moving from Scrivener to Org-mode

Posted on 2014-08-11 by jcs

The estimable Org-mode maintainer Bastien Guerry tweeted a link to an interesting thread on the Org-mode mailing list. Nice #emacs #orgmode thread: "A gentle introduction to Emacs & Org-mode?" http://t.co/dO5F0kHCGE — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) July 27, 2014 The thread concerned … Continue reading →

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A Third NSA Leaker?

Posted on 2014-08-10 by jcs

According to Betteridge’s law the answer should be no but Bruce Schneier isn’t so sure. We’ve heard the speculation about a second leaker responsible for revealing the details of the TAO catalog, X-KEYSTORE rules, and the tapping of Angela Merkel’s … Continue reading →

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Report from the Copyright Front

Posted on 2014-08-09 by jcs

Rick Falkvinge has another excellent diatribe in his series on copyright and its abuses. This time he examines the common notion that without copyright, artists wouldn’t get paid and would therefore stop producing their art. That’s a powerful argument and … Continue reading →

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Gnus Guide

Posted on 2014-08-08 by jcs

For a long time, I’ve had the urge to move my email processing to Emacs. That would make Email one more function that I wouldn’t have to leave Emacs to handle. I have found three candidate packages for this: mew, … Continue reading →

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