Missing Part of Speech? Gender Neutral third person pronoun
Is there a gender-neutral pronoun that can replace “his” or “her”?
Stack Exchange & Area 51 sign up/ log in update Site-specific spellcheck? I often see misspelled words in titles and bodies of questions, only to see them spelled properly in the tags. I have to imagine that tags are always spelled right because it's hard to type arbitrary text into the tag box. I also have to imagine that sometimes autocorrect and spellcheck provided by browsers tend to turn programming terms and package names into English words. For example, see   Would it be possible to have some sort of spellchecker that compares text of titles (and maybe bodies) to known tags and offers some sort of correction (maybe red squiggles or something) when there's some statistical probability of a misspelling?  Since this would be using a site's tags, "magneto" would get corrected to "magento" on SO, while "magento" would get corrected to "magneto" on aviation.stackexchange.com.  In theory this could reduce a lot of stupid typos and prevent trivial edits just to fix the spelling of key words.  Note that this is not solving a problem that a user's browser can already solve because browsers ship with English dictionaries, not dictionaries of programming terms. In fact, it's potentially correcting a problem created by the browser (which might have already autocorrected "magento" to "magneto"). I'm hand-maintaining an HTML document, and I'm looking for a way to automatically insert a link around text in a table. Let me illustrate:  &lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="case"&gt;123456&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;   I would like to automatically make every text in a TD with class "case" a link to that case in our bug tracking system (which, incidentally, is FogBugz).  So I'd like that "123456" to be changed to a link of this form:  &lt;a href="http://bugs.example.com/fogbugz/default.php?123456"&gt;123456&lt;/a&gt;   Is that possible? I've played with the :before and :after pseudo-elements, but there doesn't seem to be a way to repeat the case number. I want to be able to tell if the mains voltage is on or off with an Arduino.   How could I do this safely with minimal components (or components from Radio Shack)? Stack Exchange OpenID credentials not removed on logout, allowing insecure re-login "Items collection must be empty before using ItemsSource." I'm trying to get images to display in a WPF ListView styled like a WrapPanel as described in this old ATC Avalon Team article: .    When I try to populate the ListView with a LINQ-to-Entities queried collection of ADO.NET Entity Framework objects I get the following exception:  Exception     Items collection must be empty before   using ItemsSource.   My code&hellip;  Visual Basic  Private Sub Window1_Loaded(...) Handles MyBase.Loaded     ListViewImages.ItemsSource = From g In db.Graphic _                                  Order By g.DateAdded Ascending _                                  Select g End Sub   XAML  &lt;ListView Name="ListViewImages"           SelectionMode="Single"           ItemsSource="{Binding}"&gt;     &lt;local:ImageView /&gt; &lt;/ListView&gt;   I put a breakpoint on that line.  ListViewImages.ItemsSource is Nothing just before the LINQ assignment. What's wrong with "I'll open you the door"? When I call the buzzer outside my girlfriend's flat, she sometimes says *"I'll open you the door". I correct this to "I'll open the door for you".  I've never heard a native speaker say it the first way, which is why I think it's wrong. But I can't explain why.  There is a pattern in lots of English phrases that would suggest both are correct. A few common examples:   Give the keys to me before you go — Give me the keys before you go I'll buy a coffee for you at the cafe — I'll buy you a coffee at the cafe We sent a text to Martin on his birthday — We sent Martin a text on his birthday   The left-hand side is more formal, and the right-hand side is more common in everyday speech.  What do you call this pattern?  What makes the 'open-the-door' sentence an exception? Copy specific file type keeping the folder structure Python inheritance - how to disable a function In C++ you can disable a function in parent's class by declaring it as private in the child class. How can this be done in Python? I.E. How can I hide parent's function from child's public interface? How to remove ":" (colon) when displaying field name? I created a custom content type with some text fields. In the view settings of that content type I defined both to appear and as well their titles (names of the fields) to be displayed above the content of the fields respectively.  But how can I remove the trailing colon of the titles? Is there a way of modifying the way field names are display just for certain content types? I do not want this altered site wide (e.g. for all fields of all content types).  PS: I'm already using the "views" module to define a special layout for this custom content type. Probably there is a way to carry out these changes with the help of the "views" module and a custom layout template?  /edit/ I did not create a view (as with the "views" module) to display that content but used Drupal's own content type view configuration (maybe called "display"). I'm working with a localized Drupal and retranslating the different words.  Remark: Using Drupal 7.10 with Views 7.x-3.0-rc3 How to prove this statement: $\binom{r}{r}+\binom{r+1}{r}+\cdots+\binom{n}{r}=\binom{n+1}{r+1}$ Commas with "so" I am confused with the usage of so.  Consider some examples from Oxford and Meriam-webster        It was still painful so I went to see a doctor (Oxford).   We were bored with the movie, so we left (MW).   There are no more chairs available, so you'll have to stand (MW).      So is a conjunction in all the above sentences. But I don't understand when to place a comma before it. So is one of FANBOYS. Thus, we have use a comma when it connects two independent clauses, which I think contradict the first sentence.  Is the placement of comma before so depends on a style guide? For example, Americans prefer a comma while the British doesn't. How do I clear Bash's cache of paths to executables? When I execute a program without specifying the full path to the executable, and Bash must search the directories in $PATH to find the binary, it seems that Bash remembers the path in some sort of cache. For example, I installed a build of Subversion from source to /usr/local, then typed svnsync help at the Bash prompt. Bash located the binary /usr/local/bin/svnsync for "svnsync" and executed it. Then when I deleted the installation of Subversion in /usr/local and re-ran svnsync help, Bash responds:  bash: /usr/local/bin/svnsync: No such file or directory   But, when I start a new instance of Bash, it finds and executes /usr/bin/svnsync.  How do I clear the cache of paths to executables? Is a URL allowed to contain a space? Is a URI (specifically an HTTP URL) allowed to contain one or more space characters? If a URL must be encoded, is + just a commonly followed convention, or a legitimate alternative?    In particular, can someone point to an RFC that indicates that a URL with a space must be encoded?  Motivation for question: While beta-testing a web site, I noted that some URLs were constructed with spaces in them. Firefox seemed to do the right thing, which surprised me! But I wanted to be able to point the developers to an RFC so that they would feel the need to fix those URLs. Biblatex: URL-breaking not working in DVI-mode I'm preparing my bibliography and noticed that biblatex-printbibliography produces Overfull \hbox several times.  Examples (gray lines indicates text margins, red line is the physical page margin):        Why is hyperref line-breaking not working as expected using pdflatex or even latex -&gt; dvipdfm BUT not using latex -&gt; dvips -&gt; ps2pdf?  Also it would be great if someone could point out how I can raise the indentation of the second (and following) lines, as this might look better.  edit: Customized question, as the answer given by lockstep solved the third problem. The second problem seems to be identical to the first.  \documentclass[12pt]{scrbook} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref} %\usepackage[ps2pdf,breaklinks=true]{hyperref} %This doesn't change anything. %\usepackage{breakurl} %That makes no difference either.  \usepackage[a4paper,twoside,showframe]{geometry} %show text margins  \usepackage[style=alphabetic,backend=biber,maxnames=4,minnames=3,maxbibnames=99]{biblatex} \bibliography{biblatex-issue}  \begin{document} \nocite{*}  \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,type=article,prefixnumbers={A-}] \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,type=book,prefixnumbers={B-}] \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,type=online]  \end{document}   And the bib-file:  @online{GLS:datasheet,     title         = "GLS Datasheet",     organization  = "Optoelectronics Research Centre",     howpublished ="Website",     date = "2004-09",     urldate="2013-07-01",     url ="http://www.southampton.XXXX",     address       = "Southampton, United Kingdom" } @book {Lifante:Fundamentals,     title = "Integrated Photonics: Fundamentals",     author = "Lifante, Ginés",     publisher = "J.Wiley",     address = "Chichester",     year = "2003",     type = "text",     isbn = "9780470848685" } @article{Labadie:First_fringes,     author = {Labadie, L. and Mart\'{\i}n, G. and Anheier, N. C. and Arezki, B. and Qiao, H. A. and Bernacki, B. and Kern, P.},     title = {First fringes with an integrated-optics beam combiner at 10},     DOI= "10.1051/0004-6361/201116727",     journal = {A\&amp;A},     year = 2011,     volume = 531,     pages = "A48" }     P.S.: I noticed that the visiting-date of the GLS-datasheet is wrong ;-) In chapter 2, the section on bitwise operators (section 2.9), I'm having trouble understanding how one of the sample methods works.  Here's the method provided:  unsigned int getbits(unsigned int x, int p, int n) {     return (x &gt;&gt; (p + 1 - n)) &amp; ~(~0 &lt;&lt; n); }   The idea is that, for the given number x, it will return the n bits starting at position p, counting from the right (with the farthest right bit being position 0). Given the following main() method:  int main(void) {     int x = 0xF994, p = 4, n = 3;     int z = getbits(x, p, n);     printf("getbits(%u (%x), %d, %d) = %u (%X)\n", x, x, p, n, z, z);      return 0; }   The output is:     getbits(63892 (f994), 4, 3) = 5 (5)   I get portions of this, but am having trouble with the "big picture," mostly because of the bits (no pun intended) that I don't understand.  The part I'm specifically having issues with is the complements piece: ~(~0 &lt;&lt; n). I think I get the first part, dealing with x; it's this part (and then the mask) that I'm struggling with -- and how it all comes together to actually retrieve those bits. (Which I've verified it is doing, both with code and checking my results using calc.exe -- thank God it has a binary view!)  Any help? Typesetting UML class diagrams What's the best way to draw UML class diagrams in LaTeX? Is the sorting algorithm used by .NET's Array.Sort() method a  algorithm? Product and sum of positive operators is positive I want to show that for $S,T\in B(H)$ bounded operators on Hilbertspace with $S\geq 0,T\geq 0$ and $ST=TS$,  we have $S+T\geq 0$, and $ST\geq 0$.  $T\geq 0$ means $(Tx,x)\geq 0$.    To me it seems that $((S+T)x,x) = (Sx,x)+(Tx,x)\geq 0$. But for $ST$ i like some help.   There is a theorem in Rudin (12.32) that says that for every $T\in B(H)$ we have an equivalence:   $T$ is positive $\Leftrightarrow$ $T$ is self adjoint, i.e. $T=T^*$ and $\sigma(T)\subset [0,\infty)$.   Since $S, T$ are self adjoint we know that $ST=TS = S^*T^* = T^*S^*$ ($ST$ is selfadjoint since $S,T$ commute). Also I read somewhere that if $S,T $ commute then $\sigma(ST)\subset \sigma(S)\sigma(T)$, but I am not sure if this is true. Clearly I cant prove it, but if it were true by this ''Theorem'' it would follow that $ST \geq 0$.   Is there a more straightforward way? Why does an error appear every time I try to open the Ubuntu Software Center? There is a glitch on the Ubuntu Software Center and whenever I open it an error appears and it keeps loading and never opens.  Why does this happen?  I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a disk and partitioned it.  Please help me and ask for excess information if you need it.  If you know of any duplicates please show me them!!  I get the following error in a terminal  SystemError: E:Type '&lt;!DOCTYPE' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list   The /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list file contains a HTML document.