Would be nice to connect this to Twitter and get an update when a new one appears. Have you thought of doing that?
Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
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#42I thought TIL stood for Threaded Interpretive Language, as per Forth or Factor
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#43would be nice to auto generate these TIL readmes based off personal stack overflow upvotes.
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#44This is great.
BTW I've lurked that concept from you just recently and started doing the same stuff on Sunday. Thanks for inspiration.
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#45Would be nice to connect this to Twitter and get an update when a new one appears. Have you thought of doing that?
That's what newsfeeds are for. You can get an atom feed of the latest commits to any repo via github:
https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/commits/master.atomRe: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pronouncing SQL as es-kyoo-el is a rookie mistake. Sequel!
There are varied opinions about this topic. Several Sources of Truth and Righteousness advise against "sequel"[1][2], However it seems that in a certain building in WA "sequel" is preferred [3]. [1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/what-is-mysql.html [2] http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/faq/ [3] https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/fd6...
Redmond also colloquially refers to the product Microsoft SQL Server as just SQL (pronounced "sequel"), as in, "We're trying sell more SQL licenses," or, "Is the backing DB for your SAP installation Oracle or SQL?"
This has led to some confusion.
Additionally, as I pointed out in a sibling comment up the chain somewhere, SQL is an abbreviation of the original acronym, SEQUEL, for Structured English QUEry Language. It seems with this provenance that the "sequel" pronunciation is more historically correct.
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#47Great idea! By the way, minor note on unix/copying-file-contents-to-system-paste-buffer.md: "pbcopy" is an OS X only utility, but X11 (Linux, BSD) has a rough analogue in the form of "xclip". Just in case you ever switch over ;)
Thank you. I was so excited when I read this, it would of been such a letdown.
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#48Lots of good stuff here. I would appreciate a wiki-style site with short answers like these instead of searching {Google,DDG} and trawling the [stackoverflow] results.
Not all of them are necessarily good practice though. This made me chuckle:
What Is The Current [Git] Branch?
git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#49Ah yea this is awesome. I like this idea more than how I do my notes[0] because I don't actually do most of my notes in github where this makes more sense to actually commit and know when to commit/push.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an acronym.
Perhaps even more pedantically, SQL is actually an abbreviation of an acronym. It was originally conceived as SEQUEL for Structured English QUEry Language[0], only being abbreviated to SQL for legal purposes (SEQUEL was already trademarked). For this, and sheer convenience, I take the stance that it should always be pronounced as "sequel" rather than pronouncing each letter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Hist…
I'm forced to disagree with you here. I take the stance that it should always be pronounced as "squirrel", because seriously, who doesn't like squirrels? :)