Monthly Archives: March 2016

Rickrolling the FBI

I found this way funnier than I should have. Apple finally complies with the FBI via #reddit pic.twitter.com/HhlDJk7LK0 — Scott Kerr (@scott_kerr) February 23, 2016

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How to be Efficient in Emacs

Bin Chen has an interesting post on making Emacs use as efficient as possible. The idea is to remap the commands you use the most to easy key sequences. To do that, you need to know what commands you’re using, … Continue reading

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Filtering the Dired Display

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a nice post on the dired-filter package. The idea is that you can filter the files that will be displayed in your Dired listing. Take a look at his post to see how … Continue reading

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Journalists and Their Coverage of FBI/Apple

This is why my “Note to journalists” in today’s earlier post was necessary: State of tech coverage: published AFTER the FBI Director corrects his earlier lie about not seeking a precedent: pic.twitter.com/mVkXT4P3eL — Kontra (@counternotions) March 2, 2016

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Judge Orenstein Rules

By now you will have heard that Federal Magistrate Judge James Orenstein of the Eastern District of New York has ruled in case parallel to the San Bernardino case involving the FBI and Apple. At issue in the San Bernardino … Continue reading

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Lisp Family Tree

Via Jean-Philippe Paradis, a nice chart of the relationships between various Lisps. Hey #lisp, thanks to help from @RainerJoswig and others I've created a graph which illustrates CL implementations :) pic.twitter.com/CKA35vAe5y — Daniel Kochmański (@dk_jackdaniel) February 12, 2016

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