Wow, you usually don't start a headline with "do svidaniya", unless it's for an obituary.
Glad to see everything's fine.
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#32It took a good 5 minutes read of the entire blog post to understand that "Do Svidaniya" is actually "До Свидания" (Russian), meaning "until next time/Goodbye".
I thought maybe it was somebody's name and just a really horribly formed sentence. Because, ya know...
Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
#33It still surprises me that NGINX beat out Apache so quickly even though Apache had way more modules and was/is entirely free vs. NGINX which is more or less "open core" with some nice features requiring commercial licensing.
The web changed. We moved away from static HTML pages and CGI scripts to monolithic application servers in java, ruby, python, etc. Apache excelled with these static content sites and simple auth scenarios (remember .htaccess files?) but became painfully complex proxying application servers. Nginx was doing exactly what was needed at exactly the time it was needed.
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#34Wow, you usually don't start a headline with "do svidaniya", unless it's for an obituary. Glad to see everything's fine.
My heart also skips a beat if I see a news article starting with " , ".
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Do svidaniya" sounds more formal than "See you" though.
That is true, thank you for pointing it out. My personal preference is "vsego Vam dobrogo", which is even more respectful (it translates roughly as "All the kind (best) to You").
I think in general, it's probably best to avoid this kind of etymological explanation of the 'actual meaning' of some word or expression because they tend to obscure the usage and, well, actual actual meaning. Saying 'goodbye' in English doesn't really mean saying 'God be with you' to someone, even though that's what it's originally a contraction of. They're fine as etymology, of course!
Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
To add a bit more, "svidaniye" means a date, and "Do svidaniya" literally means "till [our next] date". In English, "see you" or "see you later" translates closest to the original phrase in Russian.
Doesn't it literally mean "Until we see each other [again]", which is even closer to "See you"?
It does mean exactly that, though not literally (there are only two words in the phrase literally).
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Do svidaniya" sounds more formal than "See you" though.
That is true, thank you for pointing it out. My personal preference is "vsego Vam dobrogo", which is even more respectful (it translates roughly as "All the kind (best) to You").
As a Russian learner, it seems a bit wrong not to transliterate that as "vsevo Vam drobovo" even though I understand that's not how it's spelled originally. For whatever reason, that's what my brain is expecting.
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#38People need to stop with this Cloudflare captcha madness. I literally accessed nginx.com a few hours ago and now it hit me with a captcha again.
Are you using Safari by any chance? I used to get a lot of these on Safari, but issue is almost gone on Firefox. I think it's connected to how Safari handles cookies.
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#39Wow, you usually don't start a headline with "do svidaniya", unless it's for an obituary. Glad to see everything's fine.
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#40Here are relevant Russian discussions on OpenNET[0] & LOR[1]. N.B. From Nginx company history on Wikipedia: > On 12 December 2019, it was reported that the Moscow offices of Nginx Inc. had been raided by police, and that Sysoev and Konovalov had been detained. The raid was conducted under a search warrant connected to a copyright claim over Nginx by Rambler—which asserts that it owns all rights to the code because it…
Was the case resolved? Wikipedia doesn't provide any further information?
Yes, Wikipedia -- in broad strokes -- just sucks, check what happened to the Scottish Wikipedia (but there are any number of issues in the English one as well, the "no credentials" policy made sure scientists shun it because they don't want to endlessly argue with neckbeards with an agenda).
Anyways, https://tadviser.com/index.php/Company:Nginx everything is dropped in Russia, there's a lawsuit in the US but at first the court dismissed the whole thing in 2021, I expect that one go exactly nowhere.