ghswa

At Christmas they put white lights on all of the trees except for Pete Conrad's which gets red lights. At his funeral his crew mate Alan Beam said "Pete says that while he was here he was always the shortest astronaut, but he doesn't want his tree to be the smallest tree. Pete wants his tree to be special the most colorful tree because his motto is, When you can't be good, be colorful."

I also think it would be respectful to the women who died in the space programmes to edit "his life" to "their life".

These are the first groups that came to mind. They may not all seem applicable all of the time but I would argue that making your site accessible to as many of these people as possible would improve the experience of all of your users.

- Partially sighted users that are not technically literate enough to use assistive technologies.

- People with physical impairments that affect their ability to use input devices and may also dictate the types of device they can use.

- People with low levels of technical literacy.

- People with poor literacy in the language of the site.

- People with dyslexia, not forgetting those with poor working memory or slow processing speed.

- People with dementia.

- People with a host of other mental and cognitive disorders.

The online version of page 3 will remain unchanged.

Are you referring to discussions on their mailing lists? If so, could you link to them?

I think you'd be surprised; this gave my wife some interesting ideas ... for work.

For what it's worth she's an academic in computing.

I don't think that's particularly wishful thinking, however, your alternative phrasing could be seen as equally, if not more, leading.

When quizzed on the behaviour of a C program I would expect a careful and experienced C programmer to consider the behaviour described by the standard (which standard?); unspecified and implementation defined behaviours; and deviations from the standard in both the compiler and the environment. Often I'd expect the answer to be "it depends".

It's a gotcha for anybody, like me, that expects a branch name to be 'just' a string.

If you're that worried why not cut it short to "We liked your attitude, you seem intelligent, and well-spoken, but we have concerns about your knowledge of <some key area>." There can't be any risk there, surely?

"I did write a compiler manual in 1958, which by chance was actually used as the textbook for one of my classes in 1959(!)"

How many people in the world could claim something similar?

Even worse when it's not even a politician from your own country. I'm looking at you Rand Paul.