I have developed a language for writing structured queries. Based on this article, I have decided to call it SQL.
Calling it Sequel would have been made it easier to pronounce. I think I'll just pronounce it that way in my mind.
Readit NewsI'm happy to see this post, it's something that bugs me every time I have to learn a new tool with a name that's neither A. unique to the project AND B. doesn't describe the project.
For example Zola and Hugo, static site generators - great, unique words that has no other meaning to me but the generator. The only other Hugo I know is a character in Bob's Burgers. But choosing random dictionary words like Avocado or Spice or whatever makes it completely transparent against my existing knowledge and now I have the mental lookup issue the author describes.
The other day a HN user was commenting "NAT, aka IP masquerading... (proceeds to keep re-using the term)". IME no one in the industry says "IP masquerading" unless your entire org and vendors are on Linux. Just call it NAT, we know what you mean. This a Linuxism and should be avoided!
Let's hit up Britannica.com on the word:
> a party at which people wear masks and often costumes
> a way of appearing or behaving that is not true or real
> to pretend to be someone or something else
I guess? I guess we are "pretending to be the peer IP when actually we are the LAN IP". But to me it's just nonsense. It's capital T Translating one IP to another for the sake of routing, drop the weird social implications.
> The only other Hugo I know is a character in Bob's Burgers.
Really? It's a very common name, including certain Victor and Boss.
It's especially fun once the service is superseded. Guess which one of these services handles MAC address allocation and storage: macaddr_db or atom-util?
"There's a repo called Beyonder. That's got to be what came after Galactus."
Names fall on a spectrum on this argument. Sodium is not really random because of the use of "salt" on crypto. It's like saying that libsodium is part of your crypto. awk is more random.
The argument goes stronger with projects where the creator seemed to just roll the dice with the name.
Well, "Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan" is not random but entirely unrelated to it's use.
I've been using Linux for almost 20 years, including sed a lot of that time, I'm sure I've heard it before, I must have, but when parent wrote it I was like "aah, that makes sense".
Thirty years for me and several more since I learned what sed does and what it's called and never forgot.
> ed commands are very similar to vi commands at heart
vi was build on top of ed.
Ed was the Unix line editor, which is why all the commands after a colon have the form of "start,endcommand", eg "1,$p" would list all the lines of a file on your tty/decwriter.
1,$s/findexp/replace/g would s ubstitute all examples ("g") of findexp on the lines 1 through EOF
And these all pretty much came from an era before glass display were (affordable) in computers. A terminal was roughly a keyboard and a printer attached together, or a typewriter cut in half. Paper. No cursors. No arrow keys. Mostly after punched cards and mostly before transistors. And that was only a few decades ago, there's people still alive that have used these machines.
Funny that they are still some of the most efficient and powerful interfaces.
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If everyone had backyard chicken operations on that scale, I suspect we'd have a lot more disease problems! Decentralized isn't necessarily better for disease, if the overall scale stays the same.
At least where I live, you can't have chickens in quite the same way our great-grandparents had. You need to comply with veterinary regulation for one, and for good reasons.
If every yard in a town or city was full of chickens, I wouldn't call it decentralized. Just one very broad centre.
Maybe a young child that naps in the day? That doesn’t really give a whole free afternoon though. 2 hours at best.