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leppie

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About leppie

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #10538670

    Agreed. Odds probably the RAM was mismatched, and the BIOS did not choose conservative settings. Also could be voltage mismatch, and then your low voltage modules could fry (unlike…

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    Comment #10337319

    6. Tell the coworker to vent on Twitter. Works wonders for me. It is like shouting at /dev/null :)

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    Comment #10306390

    Let me guess, this has something to do with SUBST.

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    Comment #9803341

    Walk, if they want you back, charge them ludicrous consulting rates.

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    Comment #9770295

    Seems the same as Web Components/Polymer. Not sure why neither are mentioned...

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    Comment #8995801

    I am hoping to hack a bit on the runtime to add some missing features to IronScheme (read: proper continuations!).

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    Comment #8916357

    So bipolar then?

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    Comment #8855906

    Author misinterpreted specs... "Each packet has 20 bytes of useful payload and consumes 49 μA at 3 V" That is a manufacture average for some profile, mostly sleeping 99% of the tim…

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    Comment #5205623

    So in Java, a parameter named 'filename' is automatically aliased to 'path'? Doh... static String readFirstLine(String filename) { try { BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new …

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    Comment #5133580

    Magic in progress just takes infinite time when code contains Unicode... Or is it just me?

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    Comment #4470129

    Cute, but why does it not say I use Scheme???

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    Comment #4269469

    Heck, I only get 15. I would kill for 20.

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    Comment #4063260

    The category was: Proxy avoidance. Yes, Fortiguard is a POS, but some of us have no choice behind corporate firewalls/proxies.

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    Comment #4063259

    Who knows? Why does people downvote me for reporting the issue ?

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    Comment #4063186

    Blocked by Fortiguard, and reported. Edit: To clarify. It was blocked. I reported this 'false positive' to Fortiguard to remove it from their list. They normally clear it in 24 hou…

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    Comment #4036531

    There is something very wrong with the concept of 'runtime' macros. How is a 'runtime' macro any better than a function/procedure? TBH, I have no idea what a use case would be for …

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    Comment #4017231

    If you want a quiet PC, just install a decent watercooling system. Watercooling does not necessarily mean overclocking. I just like a quiet PC :)

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    Comment #3723274

    IE seems to be the only browser not requesting the source again, which is what you would expect...

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    Comment #3642891

    I never take anyone serious when they say 'kernal'.

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    Comment #3642233

    Like the old saying goes: "I work for money. If you want loyalty, get a dog."

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    Comment #3537535

    So now we will be counting tabs instead of parenthesis. I still prefer the latter.

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    Comment #3446617

    Funny article. He mentions 'tail call elimination' once, and then never mentions 'tail call' again. Also a 'tail call' and 'tail call elimination' are 2 completely different things…

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    Comment #3153510

    Terrible audio, wish I could bear it though. Really wanted to listen.

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    Comment #3152812

    http://ironscheme.codeplex.com

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    Comment #3016681

    I wonder how many bootloaders and recovery images (specifically the commercial ones) uses the Linux kernel for it?