Monthly Archives: February 2015

Inserting C++ Object Names

Posted on 2015-02-03 by jcs

If you have the misfortune to be a C++ user, abo-abo over at (or emacs has a nifty bit of Elisp to make inserting code like some_object.method() much easier.

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SBCL 1.2.8

Posted on 2015-02-03 by jcs

Last night, I installed the latest version (1.2.8) of SBCL. As usual, the regression tests and installation executed without problem. You can get your copy at the usual place. This month’s release fixes some bugs, has three enhancements, and two … Continue reading →

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Sacha on Org Using Org Tables

Posted on 2015-02-02 by jcs

Sacha Chua has an outstanding post on how to add data to and get data from Org mode tables. I’ve written a lot about using Org tables and what used to be called Babel to calculate results from the tables … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Honor Society

Posted on 2015-02-01 by jcs

John Kitchin, whose work I’ve mentioned many times, states the obvious. What would the Emacs honor society be called? λλλ of course. #emacs — John Kitchin (@johnkitchin) December 20, 2014

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Deanonymizing Metadata

Posted on 2015-02-01 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about the New York City Taxi Commission’s metadata and how easily it can be abused even though it was anonymized by removing the personally identifiable information. The anonymization notwithstanding, data analysts were able to … Continue reading →

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