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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 #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Auf Wiedersehen!

Genau! Actually, this perfect duality also extends to other phrases, like “priyatnava appetita”, just like Guten Appetit! At the same time, in Ukrainian you’d say “smachnogo”, similar to Swedish “smaklig måltid” (lecker Mahlzeit), as “smak” means taste in both languages.

smaklig måltid

When I see these accents I can't help but read it in Hatari voice.

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

#82

I know this is massively off-topic (have a good well paid "retirement" Igor), but I assumed that it would be written as Dos Vidaniya instead of (the correct) Do svidanyia My Russian studies is limited to listening to Sean Connery in The Russia House, and I guess I took Dos from the latin languages. Odd.

Dos Svidanya would be a great cocktail name.

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

#83
post #3

To non-russian speaking users: "Do Svidaniya" means "Goodbye".

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.

It's interesting, because "svidanyie" in Russian is probably closely related to "svitani" in Czech, which means "sunrise", nothing else. But more literally "svitani" would probably translate as "meet again". Fascinating how meanings morph and sometimes the original meaning is fairly obfuscated.

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

#84

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…

Just plain Chrome Mobile, nothing else, no VPN.

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

#85
post #38

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.

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.

Chrome Mobile (Android).

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

#86

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.

I think the modules were Apache's curse, they made it possible to bring down Apache. Speed is great, but Always Responding is a more important feature. I'm sure most Nginx configurations could have been done with Apache without any real performance issue, but Apache hurt its own reputation by doing extra things poorly.

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

#87
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.

I used lighttpd from 2007 until early 2009. Then the company I was working for at the time went to managed hosting for about a year, and during that time, we had to use Apache (possibly even with the prefork MPM). When we decided to go back to self-managed dedicated servers in early 2010, I chose nginx. What I remember from that time was that nginx was rising in popularity, and it was being used by WordPress.com. Also, unlike the 2007 setup, this early 2010 setup had a load balancer with three application servers behind it (using FastCGI I think), and if I remember correctly, it was easier to do that with nginx than lighttpd.

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

#88
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

>except, of course, when it does. To a good first approximation, zero people mean "god be with you" when they say "goodbye". That might be the etymological origin of the word, but meanings shift over time.

Most people don't become polyglots either, though, so that's not a good measure of the utility. It's not a question of language-learners learning etymology would be useful to the man on the Chatham bus, it's a question of whether it is useful to language-learners.

Knowing the etymology of, e.g., "goodbye" makes it click faster/not be weird when you learn, e.g, that "hello" is "Dia is Muire duit" (God and Mary be with you) in Irish Gaelic.

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

#89
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

>except, of course, when it does. To a good first approximation, zero people mean "god be with you" when they say "goodbye". That might be the etymological origin of the word, but meanings shift over time.

except, you know, the person you're conversing with this very moment, so that's a really bad (local) first approximation!

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

#90

I know this is massively off-topic (have a good well paid "retirement" Igor), but I assumed that it would be written as Dos Vidaniya instead of (the correct) Do svidanyia My Russian studies is limited to listening to Sean Connery in The Russia House, and I guess I took Dos from the latin languages. Odd.

It's worse than that, the first thing that I scanned in the article is if he is alive. A title like that without a pre-defined context more often, in my native Russian perception, could mean much worse that just leaving a company. I'm glad he's doing well, I really enjoy NGINX as a casual user. It is a great gift to people. Удачи (good luck) or всего хорошего (best wishes) would not trigger such a reaction to scan the article for me.

I've just counted: only on the 13th paragraph I could get the answer.

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