My mother was born and raised in the USSR, and got a master's degree in engineering (if memory serves correctly). I'll link her to this comment, and see what she has to say (I'll probably end up replying to myself on this comment, I don't know if she'd have any interest in signing up for an account.)
edit: can we get a reddit-style "context" option? I want to link her to this comment, and display the two parent comments; if I just link to the 'grandparent', who knows where Scriptor's reply will end up.
Two problems with that. It doesn't show the parent comment (credo's), and it doesn't highlight a specific chain of replies.
If I want to show someone this comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2783390) and the two parent replies, there's no way to do that. I can link to the grandparent, but what if the parent comment is downvoted in the meanwhile? It would show up at the very bottom.
edit: can we get a reddit-style "context" option? I want to link her to this comment, and display the two parent comments; if I just link to the 'grandparent', who knows where Scriptor's reply will end up.