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Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

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Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

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Post by smarx007 »

xvedejas wrote: post #37
smarx007 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I actually wanted to write “vsevó Vam dóbrava” (o not under stress often becomes a) but changed it to an grammatical transliteration for some reason.

Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

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Post by rzzzt »

shadowgovt wrote: post #15
eliseumds wrote: post #10

People 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.

Cloudflare uses a heuristic trust model where it pulls multiple trust signals from the client. It can use several things (including stable IP address, cookies, and I think even a bit of JavaScript grabbing a nonce from local storage). If you run with a lot of "identity fuzzers" (browsing through Tor, JavaScript off, cookies banned), Cloudflare can't build its trust heuristics and needs to challenge-response more ofte…

I always encounter a "random" stop-and-solve-me-a-visual-puzzle when visiting an Australian forum related to SOHO networking equipment. According to the description on the challenge page, "completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property". Thank you, Cf, I guess?

(To be fair, consecutive requests don't get this treatment, just the one in which I jump there from eg. a search result.)

Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

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Post by marginalia_nu »

Croftengea wrote: post #19
smarx007 wrote: post #17

Earlier 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.

"Do svidaniya" sounds more formal than "See you" though.

"Farewell"?

Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

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Post by simonw »

stormbrew wrote: post #16
nkozyra wrote: post #7

I really take for granted how well Nginx works across a number of web backend functions. Some of the container/orchestration world has tried to supplant the need for it as a reverse proxy, but you get so many goodies out of the box just by sticking this in front of your app, and for very little overhead. I remember the pre-Nginx days and all of the struggles people routinely ran into with options like Apache or other…

I mean there was lighttpd before nginx and they have/had pretty similar structures, weights, etc. I feel like I knew at one point why it got so thoroughly supplanted by nginx but I don't remember now why that happened.

The performance engineering in NGINX back then was really quite something.

This classic 2007 tutorial starts by pointing out that NGINX parses the HTTP verb by looking at the second letter first, so that if it's O it knows to check for POST or COPY!

https://web.archive.org/web/20070505051653/http://www.riceon...

Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

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Post by hprotagonist »

pvg wrote: post #35
smarx007 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

>Saying 'goodbye' in English doesn't really mean saying 'God be with you' to someone

except, of course, when it does.

I regularly re-pronounce holiday as holy-day internally, and the same with welcome and well-come; i am, of course, a weirdo.

Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

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Post by petre »

shadowgovt wrote: post #15
eliseumds wrote: post #10

People 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.

Cloudflare uses a heuristic trust model where it pulls multiple trust signals from the client. It can use several things (including stable IP address, cookies, and I think even a bit of JavaScript grabbing a nonce from local storage). If you run with a lot of "identity fuzzers" (browsing through Tor, JavaScript off, cookies banned), Cloudflare can't build its trust heuristics and needs to challenge-response more ofte…

They are breaking the web, plain and simple. Google with AMP, Cloudfare with their idiotic capchas.

Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

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Post by jacquesm »

schoolornot wrote: post #6

It 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.

Convenience is often worth a lot more than the ultimate in flexibility.

This is why email is now more or less the domain of a couple of very large companies.

Re: Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

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Post by nimbius »

unrelated but ive always thought the F5 acquisition of NGINX made little sense. I think F5 saw the writing on the wall a little late, panicked, and bought the first competitor they could come up with that showed up in a Gartner quadrant.

so much of the NGINX product that aligns with F5 as a competitive element is essentially already implemented and free by people who are already completely competent in load balancing. unless companies seek to reduce risk by bolting on a support contract...why F5 at all?

can someone from the biz side of the HN house chime in perhaps?

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