Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes (daringfireball.net)

3 points by ingve 6d ago ↗ HN

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I still hate it for needing a two line feeds to get a newline.

But yeah, while I didn't encounter any encoding problems with md it would help somewhat for everyone to expect Unicode.

There was an article in the top page yesterday complaining about acronyms. I can see its point now because UTI means something else in my family.

Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms

markx2 6d ago ↗

I saw this in my feed reader this morning and my first thought was "How do you get a Urinary Tract Infection in an OS?"

A dirty pipe

Same here, at first I thought Gruber was using it ironically since he doesn't seem very fond of his own creation. But no, it really is "UTI."

k310 6d ago ↗

I was married to a Registered Nurse. Enough said.

Who here remembers when MCI was myocardial infarction?

It became MI after, well, you know ...

Despite having nothing common with I thought about the same.