[dllthomas]

Wildly, the Polish word "nagle" (pronounced differently) means "suddenly" or "all at once", which is just astonishingly apropos for what I'm almost certain is pure coincidence.

[marton78]

Strangely, the Polish word seems to encode a superposition of both settings: with NODELAY on, TCP sends messages suddenly, whereas with NODELAY off it sends tiny messages all at once, in one TCP packet.

[sleepy_keita]

Yeah, it's named after the person who wrote the RFC - John Nagle. Wild coincidence! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc896

[pests]

hes on hn as "Animats"

[tptacek]

Funner trivia is why he's named "Animats".

[teach]

I've been on HN a long time and this comment was the one to finally make me realize that "animats" is "stamina" spelled backward.

[tptacek]

See, I didn't even realize that --- wasn't what I was referring to! :)

[Pikamander2]

Nominative determinism strikes again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism