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leppie··on Friends don't let Friends install Used RAM
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 (unlikely though).

leppie··on Ask HN: Dealing with a Toxic Co-Worker
6. Tell the coworker to vent on Twitter. Works wonders for me. It is like shouting at /dev/null :)
leppie··on Newly found TrueCrypt flaws
Let me guess, this has something to do with SUBST.
leppie··on Ask HN: My co-founders are trying to get rid of me. What should I do?
Walk, if they want you back, charge them ludicrous consulting rates.
leppie··on Introducing the Famous Framework
Seems the same as Web Components/Polymer. Not sure why neither are mentioned...
leppie··on CoreCLR is now open source
I am hoping to hack a bit on the runtime to add some missing features to IronScheme (read: proper continuations!).
leppie··on So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
So bipolar then?
leppie··on Integrated Circuit design for the IoT
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 time.

The real consumption during broadcast is in the order of 15-20mA for most chip I have seen.

Here is a very informative article dealing with power demands of low power devices: www.ganssle.com/reports/ultra-low-power-design.html

leppie··on Write More Classes
So in Java, a parameter named 'filename' is automatically aliased to 'path'? Doh...

static String readFirstLine(String filename) { try { BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path)); ....

So people writes this everyday, yet still fail to do it correctly...

Also, this article was written 1 day in the future. The future looks bleak to me...

leppie··on Instacode
Magic in progress just takes infinite time when code contains Unicode... Or is it just me?
leppie··on Show HN: My Github résumé
Cute, but why does it not say I use Scheme???
leppie··on Marissa Mayer Employment Offer Letter
Heck, I only get 15. I would kill for 20.
leppie··on The TTY demystified
The category was: Proxy avoidance.

Yes, Fortiguard is a POS, but some of us have no choice behind corporate firewalls/proxies.

leppie··on The TTY demystified
Who knows? Why does people downvote me for reporting the issue ?
leppie··on The TTY demystified
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 hours.

leppie··on A Codewalk for Arc3's first-class(runtime) macros
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 a 'runtime' macro. A macro is generally a compile-time source transformation. If you need that at runtime, use EVAL.
leppie··on Want the quietest PC? Just get the right chip . . .
If you want a quiet PC, just install a decent watercooling system. Watercooling does not necessarily mean overclocking. I just like a quiet PC :)
leppie··on Try and view the source
IE seems to be the only browser not requesting the source again, which is what you would expect...
leppie··on [dead]
I never take anyone serious when they say 'kernal'.
leppie··on Why I Don't Do Unpaid Overtime and Neither Should You
Like the old saying goes:

"I work for money. If you want loyalty, get a dog."

leppie··on P4P: A Syntax Proposal (for Racket)
So now we will be counting tabs instead of parenthesis. I still prefer the latter.
leppie··on Don't return null; use a tail call
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. The former being an implementation detail (to provide proper tail recursion for languages that require it, ie Scheme), the latter an optimization technique (to remove (expensive) tail calls!).

leppie··on Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009)
Terrible audio, wish I could bear it though. Really wanted to listen.
leppie··on Let me see your Lisp implementation. Here's mine.
http://ironscheme.codeplex.com
leppie··on Richard Stallman: “Android Phones Do Not Respect Your Freedom”
I wonder how many bootloaders and recovery images (specifically the commercial ones) uses the Linux kernel for it?
leppie··on [dead]
Most software products specifically prohibits using it in a nuclear environment.
leppie··on [dead]
Hacker News is becoming more and more just News. What does this have to do with 'hacking'?
leppie··on Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the government
Global report (excludes Africa). US is dirt cheap compared to internet pricing here...
leppie··on Excelbook is launced, a Facebook UI looks like Excel
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /2011/06/18/genius-diesel-launches-excelbook/ on this server.

leppie··on [dead]
Fixed now :)
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