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Thank you for addressing my concerns. I hope that you don't end up having to ban all political discussion permanently.

I get what you are doing - HN has been in eternal September mode for a while now. I'm not sure it will work but I hope it does I don't want to have to find a new message board. My …

Do different Unis in the US use different numbering schemes?

OTH I find the concept of religion to be very political... The boundaries of political discourse are like art or porn. You know it when you see it but one person's+ definition is d…

Does the "1" in "109" imply that this is a intro course?

Free speech means that you can say whatever you want without government persecution. You do not however have the right to dictate what individual people think or how they respond t…

Search online for "xelatex". It's latex for the 21st century.

I wish I could upvote this more than once. Anyway who is writing non-trivial documents in LaTeX will benefit from this.

Publishing the source like this is risk management for a company. By doing this they don't risk having to receive, vet and process 100's of requests for source at a random time - w…

Just click on the post you want to reply to's time next time...

To clarify I'm familiar with how Fortran handles generic programming and my frustration with it extends well beyond having to write interface blocks (although these are annoying to…

Looking at this makes me wonder if there is IDE support for handling the way that Fortran does generic functions? So much boilerplate and repetition required...

> I realize that Fortran compilers have focused on optimizing traditional explicit loops and other imperative programming constructs. Nonetheless, I'd want to see benchmarks before…

Personal attacks have no place here. Please do this elsewhere.

How is it easier to go in this direction?

It's UK English too. But not as common as cash machine/cash point/hole in the wall.

So would you suggest we should have a safe space where people have to listen to each other? I will defend people's right to say things I don't like hearing. However I will also def…

Tizen gives Samsung options and means that they are not beholden to Google.

Sending unwanted emails - this is a great way to get added to spam filters... Do it to too many gmail users and no one will receive any of your emails.

OK cool. But by downvoting they are exercising free speech. (As an aside I tend to read downvoted comments first because I want to see why they were downvoted. It's more of a highl…

You right to free speech does not include the right for others to disagree with you, for them to not listen to you, or even for them to not like you because of what you say - they …

But: 1. in most wars the soldiers are actually fighting a very small proportion of the time. They are eating, drinking and creating waste every day. 2. Those dehydrated rations wil…

Optimal for what?