Monthly Archives: August 2015

Finally. The Mysteries are Solved

Posted on 2015-08-06 by jcs

Heh. Finally Stonehenge and Easter Island mysteries solved pic.twitter.com/CiVtU0rA1g — SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) August 6, 2015

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SBCL versus C++

Posted on 2015-08-06 by jcs

Drmeister has an interesting mini-benchmark that compares Common Lisp to C++ and Python. The real purpose of the post is to compare the performance of CCLASP Common Lisp to C++. CCLASP is a new Common Lisp system that drmeister is … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 8.3!

Posted on 2015-08-05 by jcs

#emacs #Orgmode 8.3 is now out. Enjoy! http://t.co/tqlT0u7B5T — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) August 5, 2015 As of my writing this, it hasn’t hit Elpa yet.

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Google and the Smoking Gun

Posted on 2015-08-05 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’ve been critical of Google in the past. But their business model doesn’t mean that some state attorney general with an agenda gets to use the power of government to do the bidding of the MPAA … Continue reading →

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Turning Off Annoying Magit Prompts

Posted on 2015-08-04 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of Magit and have been using it for some time. One thing I didn’t like was that it asked for verification before staging all changed files (【S】 in magit-status) but being … Continue reading →

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A Diff on Quitting Emacs

Posted on 2015-08-03 by jcs

I used to know this and probably even blogged on it before but I’d forgotten about it and maybe you have too so it’s worthwhile repeating. #emacs https://t.co/OBjPKHDgIo — Marco Wahl (@marcowahlsoft) July 12, 2015

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SBCL 1.2.14 Released

Posted on 2015-08-03 by jcs

The latest version of Steel Bank Common Lisp is available at the usual place. You can check the NEWS page for the changes in this iteration. When I first tried to download it from Sourceforge, it wasn’t available and Sourceforge … Continue reading →

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What Security Experts Do Differently

Posted on 2015-08-02 by jcs

Over at the Google Security Blog, Lulia Lon, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo have an interesting post on some research they did on what security experts do differently from non-expert to stay safe on the Internet. The post is the … Continue reading →

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Come Over to the Dark Side

Posted on 2015-08-01 by jcs

and achieve great power. Come to the Dark Side… …we have #Vim and #Emacs. :D #Text #Editors — Darth Coder (@code4fud) July 10, 2015

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The Washington Post Gets it Right

Posted on 2015-08-01 by jcs

Last Wednesday, Irreal excoriated the Washington Post for their uninformed—ignorant really—editorial supporting backdoors in crypto systems allowing the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to read encrypted communications when they feel it’s necessary. My post and the TechCrunch article it … Continue reading →

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