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		jgrahamc on March 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU make insanity: finding the value of the -j par... Yes. It was 'for fun'. Someone at CloudFlare asked me how to get the value of -j and I figured there must be some way :-)

jordigh on March 29, 2015 [–]

Do you know if this person hangs out in IRC? I asked this precise question 10 days ago in #emacs, and I was curious to see my precise question answered, almost the way I phrased it.

jgrahamc on March 29, 2015 | [–]

Too funny. I think it's just random chance. Although he is an emacs user.

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