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Interview with Mikeal Rogers: Node.js Fork that Ended up as a Giant, Unifying Step Forward

posted by martyb on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the two-nodes-back-into-one dept.

tonymercmobily writes with a FreeSoftwareMagazine interview:

Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create powerful server-side applications by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer myself, I have always felt frustrated by seeing that Joyent, the company behind Node.s, was extremely conservative in terms of upgrading node to use the latest V8 version; the project was also struggling to get developers to actually contribute to code. This is why Fedor Indutny did the unthinkable: forked node and created IO.js. Today, the two projects are uniting possibly offering developers the best of both worlds

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday June 21 2015, @10:09AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 21 2015, @10:09AM (#199010) Journal

    something I recently read: (Author unknown to me)

    There [wordsmith.org] - author is Richard Lederer [wikipedia.org] - aka "the Wizard of Idiom," "Attila the Pun," and "Conan the Grammarian." His blog may worth a visit from time to time, one may pick interesting facts on words (e.g. "Explode comes from the Latin explodere, “to chase away by clapping one’s hands.” In ancient Rome, disgruntled theatergoers would clap loudly to show their dissatisfaction with the performance on stage.").
    Don't trust quite everything, hamburger has no fault for having nothing to do with ham, as this style of sandwich got its name from the city of Hamburg [wikipedia.org] somehow.

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  • (Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Sunday June 21 2015, @12:17PM

    by AnonTechie (2275) on Sunday June 21 2015, @12:17PM (#199043) Journal

    Thanks c0lo

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  • (Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:43PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:43PM (#199081) Journal

    this style of sandwich got its name from the city of Hamburg somehow.

    And it turns out they don't even know [wikipedia.org] where the "Ham" in Hamburg comes from.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:58PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:58PM (#199084) Journal
      Most probable it not from "the upper part of a pig's leg" - that would be "schinken".
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  • (Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday June 22 2015, @05:51AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Monday June 22 2015, @05:51AM (#199299) Journal
    Also, the name 'eggplant' actually came about because there actually are some cultivars of eggplant that are white and really do look like eggs, like these [tablematters.com]. These smaller, egg-like white or pale yellow varieties were the sort seen in the 18th century when the plant was introduced to the British Isles, and so the name stuck even after the long purple varieties became more common. Tellingly, the Brits tend to call these comestibles 'aubergines' instead just as the French always have.
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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 22 2015, @06:22AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 22 2015, @06:22AM (#199305) Journal

      Tellingly, the Brits tend to call these comestibles 'aubergines' instead just as the French always have.

      Wasn't always so. Wikipedia entry [wikipedia.org]:

      Even the archaic English name mad-apple comes from the melongena family: in Italian, the word melanzana was reinterpreted in Italian as mela insana, and translated into English as mad apple.

      In the western Mediterranean, (al)-bāḏinjān became Spanish berenjena, Catalan as albergínia, and Portuguese beringela. The Catalan form was borrowed by French as aubergine, which was then borrowed into British English

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday June 22 2015, @08:33AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday June 22 2015, @08:33AM (#199337) Journal

    This doth gruntle me most couth. Etymology is not always what entymologists think it ought to be. Or bee.