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What do you mean? Hasn't anyone thought that people could be banned by mistake? This is terribly unfair and nonsensical. Not that I have a lot to lose by abandoning this account, b…

Thanks for the heads up. I mean, I noticed that I received some downvotes for a comment I made on a particular post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849016 But nothing that ju…

Hellbanned? What is that supposed to mean? I don't remember having done anything wrong.

I totally agree. i.e. plural should be handled by i18n libraries. Same thing for the thousands separator, different locales use different separators/styles.

I know some. And can see the suffering in their eyes.

Well, in that case we disagree on everything. I am personally grateful to Stallman (and many other people) for making it possible for me to have access to simple programming tools …

I do not personally approve of the "rms attitude" in general, as I find it too extreme, sometimes plain rude (I can't forget that he fell asleep during the first talk of his that I…

A silly question: were there not scripting languages at the time ROOT was developed? Don't get me wrong, it's not like I hate C++, but it doesn't seem to me like the easiest langua…

Wheaaatoooooooon! rage

I guess there should be some kind of timestamp preventing that kind of attack, no?

"With many rapidly evolving alternatives in the NoSQL space, providing a paper that compares them will be out of date as soon as it is published, but some blogs have." Enough said.…

Man... seriously... such a waste of characters.

Third.