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I've made this mistake with LaTeX. I was so embarrassed when someone told me "Its pronounced lah-tekh".
Another one is Tuple (like in a data base) Too pool -or- Tup ulll -or- Tup lee So many choice from just five letters....
"Tup Lee" just seems silly.
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In file:///, the file:// part signifies the protocol (think http:// ) and the / in /path/to/file signifies the root directory (think / in /home/user/) I have never seen file:/ used before, so I can't really comment, but it seems invalid to me (and browsers auto-redirect it to ///).
Almost. The file: signifies the protocol. The /// is actually // / with an empty machinename as a shorthand for 'localhost'.
Why is this interpreted as a relative path?
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Wait, is that wrong? I've only ever met a single person that pronounced URL like "Earl". Everyone else says the letters, and thus, you get "see you are ell". I tend to go back and forth with cURL, sometimes calling it "kurl". Same problem with SQL. Is it "ess que ell" or "sequel"?
"Sequel", or "skewl" when I'm in a hurry. Who has time to say "ess que ell"?
Great! NetBSD fixed this "logo" http://www.netbsd.org/images/NetBSD-old.jpg Now all we need is for R to get rid of this monstrosity http://www.jeveuxetredatascientist.fr/wp-content/uploads/201... and we'll be on a roll.
I just realized after all these years, I think I've been saying the name wrong. In my head, I say "curl" as in curly hair. It's really "see-url"!? I think it's too late for my brain to correct that.
That was too traumatic to contemplate, so I referred to the FAQ and found relief in section 1.1: "We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl]." They do, however, note that the "fact it can also be pronounced 'see URL' also helped" [to choose the name].
Edit: Changed 'sue-do' to 'sue-doo' to make it less ambiguous.
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I've made this mistake with LaTeX. I was so embarrassed when someone told me "Its pronounced lah-tekh".
Another one is Tuple (like in a data base) Too pool -or- Tup ulll -or- Tup lee So many choice from just five letters....
(It's historically rhymed with couple)
On the other hand, a lot of Latin-originating words have had their pronunciations changed in US English, the canonical example being data (from UK English "da-ta" to US English "day-ta", which has now begun to become standard everywhere due to the tech industry) so I guess other words could go the same way.
The new logo is nice, certainly cleaner and more better-looking than the old one. However, the association for me is very much to PCB design since the lines with hollow circles look like tracks with vias or just pads for through-hole components. See, for instance, the background on KiCad's (an actual PCB design program) site: http://kicad-pcb.org/ . This "inspiration" was visible in the first suggestion too, the one…