vixen99

Clueless I might be about the article but it seems to me that there's really no point in offering a public opinion that 'it's ridiculous' while not providing the slightest support or argument as to wh…

A wonderful story well worth reproducing here! Don't want to be churlish but I somehow doubt Feynman wrote the plural of days as day's.

What a supremely provincial comment.

Here are some method:- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/21/tanya-go... …

Strange - you insert an apostrophe and thus write "it is user profile" but leave it out of "facebook's perspective" where is needed. I can't work out why apostrophic abuse is so popular.

I was under the impression that polls are reserved for use in deciding issues in climate science!

In view of the ensuing discussion here, that may not be so. Beware the Royal 'we'. "It is also called the royal pronoun, the royal "we" or the Victorian "we." The more general word for the use of we t…

Ridiculous, stupid, idiotic: these words cut communication with people who have differing views. Difficult to believe you sat through 1500 pages (why?) and have only that comment to make. On the posit…

Would anyone spend hours and hours listening to an opera by a (by universal-agreement) disgusting anti-Semite like Wagner?

One of the delights of HN is that the comments rarely include pointless epithets. So how about replacing 'stupid' with a sentence or two from his 'manifesto' and then telling us what you think is irra…

You are sadly continuing the perjorative drift with no beef. It's almost a cliche to say a few rude words about it, isn't it? I wouldn't argue with that view if it concerned the Sun or the News of the…

Why do you say that?

He goes over the top but so do you. Diet is a word usually reserved for a temporary alteration in the type and amount of food we eat. But of course it also refers to a permanent change in what we eat.…

But is it? Where for instance does Doug Keenan go wrong? http://www.informath.org/media/a42.htm (an essay originally published in the WSJ 'What is arguably the most important reason to doubt global …

Put another way, why has the UK taxpayer-funded BL made its initial offering only for Apple customers?

How about that we remain silent.on matters of which we are ignorant? We are not party to this man's innermost thoughts and family conversations indeed such is none of our business and it is more than …

From the original article 'Students today might be taught by a teacher who is himself unable to work out 37+16 without help' I take it that this is extreme exaggeration to make the point. Such a perso…

But do you think he'd be passed over for promotion until he 'fully mastered machine technology'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein …

But why do French universities appear to perform relatively poorly in several international university rankings?

Is there a law against them in France?

This is symptomatic of the whole EU enterprise. You might ask how it is that a totally non-elected person like Baroness Ashton, the so-called High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Polic…

There's a touch of truth in the article but for an ignorant elite they don't do too badly. They are around 4th in line for Nobel Prizes in hard sciences per inhabitant and well ahead in terms of large…

I take your point of course. I would like to know though to what extent the zillions of pounds put into the system by retail customers contribute to opportunities for the investment arms of the bank.I…

I spend a lot of time abroad so my experience is almost entirely of internet transactions. I have no complaints about counter service when I use it. Decline in service? One small example: the website …

That's great for the graduates who get these jobs but can I add that it seems to me that there's precious little evidence (actually none at all) that their skills result in any kind of improvement in …

Open cheque book for the State then? My impression is that an increasing number of people in the UK and EU and I suspect in the US, certainly do not accept there is a moral duty.to pay these taxes tho…

For the record, the author's own response is evidently "OPA". ( https://mlstate.com/opa/documentation_-_introduction#1 ) which is commercial software though you can try it for non-commercial uses.…

I missed the "Lisp is great, but the masses just don't get it" bit so thanks for the interpretation. Isn't a short blog comment (take it or leave it) enough for you? The author's got to produce a thes…