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This is not a case of red tape. Preventing emergancy signals or signals from other users is illegal, get over it and recoup some of the money wasted on a jammer.
Do you not maintain threads, RegEx etc... ? At best STL can be reffered to as a subset of the Standard Library, which contains the algorithms and containers framework. I take Stroustrup's word over a maintainer with the intials STL, who has an interest to keep calling it by this name.
<StlIsTheWrongName>If writing "modern C++", why do you want to use a really old library, STL, why not instead use the "Standard Library"? </StlIsTheWrongName>
Re:Open letter – Our concern about ad blocking on Thursday September 17, 2015 @09:16AM (#10233131)
"I respectfully disagree with you."

And yet you do not, instead you propose a system in which people pay for content.

Re:Open letter – Our concern about ad blocking on Thursday September 17, 2015 @07:40AM (#10232725)
If you produce content, no one is willing to pay for it and your only source of income for it is adverts then I say your business model is flawed and good riddance to you.
Re:Embedding LuaJIT in 30 minutes on Thursday August 13, 2015 @06:06PM (#10057510)
The author informs that the stack is "difficult bit to wrap your head around first", then makes a bizarre statement "Once again – pushed values are indexed with negative, function arguments with positive numbers." This is not correct, you can use positive or negative indexes in either case. Positive indexes are absolute and negative are relative to the top of the stack.
Re:GIMP-Win project wasn’t hijacked, just abandoned on Thursday May 28, 2015 @09:09AM (#9617836)
Have a look at freelists www.freelists.org/
Re:The time has come to stand up for the GPL on Monday March 30, 2015 @12:05PM (#9290429)
I know. I was really surprised to see that there has only been ~1000 donations.
Re:Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter on Saturday January 24, 2015 @07:29AM (#8939431)
This is news to me and I have a problem with the term as it does not include citizens of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is part of The UK(Great Britain and NI), yet not part of Great Britain(England, Scotland and Wales) or Britain(England and Wales). The Irish, amongst others, do not refer to the islands as the British Isles due to the association with Britain.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles#cite_note-postwar...

There have been a number of bit modules developed by 3rd party developers, including LuaJIT's Mike Pall, in addition to 5.2 which had bit functions. However, the bit functions were slow and a dog to use.
"Stop changing the story title", Donald Knuth
Re:Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @05:29PM (#8592675)
Whilst GNOME has not fully disclosed the information, which has been disgust for months at Board Meetings, I would stand by the evil comment. Groupon, the massive for profit organisation, made a conscious decision ("Not only did Groupon refuse ...")to basically say FU to GNOME. They then used their position as a major organisation to try and coerce them into an unacceptable situation("alternative branding options") which included filling more trademark applications.

I would, and do, call them bullies and bullies are evil.

Re:Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:54PM (#8592091)
Yet I do not see Groupon apologising for their behaviour, which was evil.
Re:YouTube Ready to Eliminate Ads [video] on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @06:25PM (#8523986)
I run adblock, noscript and a none chromium based browser; I also never see adverts on youtube.
Re:Open Source Project Name Checker on Friday October 17, 2014 @10:16AM (#8471064)
Yeah. An off by one error. If you input a string of three characters, then it complains that the input needs a name longer than two characters.

How about adding googlecode and bitbucket to the list of searched sites and providing links to the found projects at the searched sites?

Re:The design of government emails on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:16AM (#8268348)
It saddens me that this government design body think that using HTML emails, with headers and footers, is somehow more official looking than plain text. If they want to reassure citizens that emails are from the government and therefore "real", then why not sign the emails with PGP? More people should be using PGP and for the government to do so, could increase its usage across the population (I have never bought into the idea PGP is too difficult to general usage).
Firstly, I hugely disagree with your comment on civility. This is because "pisses me off" expresses my feelings in a way that just could not be captured using other words. If you knew me, which of course you can not, you would understand it really means something when I swear on the internet. At present I can not think of another time when I have done so.

Secondly I would disagree that the "best solution" is to email them as a single entity. Emailing the powers that be could only be the best course of action (about topics such as this) if somebody organised a mass email campaign. Seeing as the site is a medium for news and communication, I feel having this thread in full view of all eyes may not be the "best" but it is still a good solution.

"The HN guidelines ask you not to post questions like this to the site, but instead to email us"

Is this for the reason that you do not want site criticism on the front page, with lots of people commenting about the policies? Instead the site would rather only one person emailed you about the problems rather than hearing a mass voice of concern?

This is the biggest entry on HN today, yet you have decided to remove it from the front page! I realise that at this moment in time you have not read the thread, but this is one of the issues which was highlighted and one that also pisses me off!

Re:The Sinking Ship of E-Mail Security on Saturday June 28, 2014 @07:26PM (#7959735)
Whilst this is true it is not really that big a problem. You can open the attachment, copy to the clipboard and then use APG to decrypt. It could be nicer and would be excellent if the client supported PGP/MIME, but I can live with it.
Re:Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:43AM (#7523596)
Meteor is a description of the burning in the atmosphere not the object itself, which is still a meteoroid.
Re:Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:01AM (#7523301)
JFYI To be hit by a meteorite you would either need to be close to the Earth's surface or for somebody strong to throw it. Technically it is not a meteorite until it impacts with the Earth's surface, therefore this object may actually be a meteoroid.

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