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What is an "STL Hackathon"? Is it related to the C++ standard library STL? The STL file format? Has it been mentioned on HN before?

jrockway 14y ago
STL means St. Louis.
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tedivm 14y ago
It's the location, St. Louis.
mkopinsky 14y ago
If you read the article, it's pretty clear that it's referring to St. Louis. While I agree that it should have spelled it out in the title, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to click through and RTFA.
- heretoo 14y ago
  > RTFA It's not spelt out whether your intent here is to berate the guy or not, but I get the distinct impression that it is. Your response is rude and uncalled for. I read the article and it's not clear to me that STL is supposed to be equivalent to St Louis, because it isn't spelt out, and furthermore, I don't intend on looking it up in a dictionary of acronyms referring to foreign places that I may never visit, without first knowing that STL refers to a place.
- shocks 14y ago
  No. It's not "pretty clear". I read the article and I had no idea. But then, if you'd have RTFA then perhaps you would have known that too?
  - cantankerous 14y ago
    The third paragraph mentions St. Louis in an unabbreviated form. I picked it up almost right away.
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ecspike 14y ago
STL is the airport code and shorthand for St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
astrodust 14y ago
It's the Standard Library now. STL is the SGI precursor. People insist on calling it STL for whatever reason, maybe because it's the STandard Library. Or it could be St. Louis? Or Seattle?
- duaneb 14y ago
  The hackathon refers to the airport code for Saint Louis.
- rys 14y ago
  I think you mean Standard Template Library in that context. The C and C++ standard libraries aren't referred to that way (at least not commonly!).
  - astrodust 14y ago
    Just as people call them "ATM Machines" it doesn't mean "STL" is the name of the C++ Standard Library.
sillysaurus 14y ago
I was so shocked that St Louis had anything close to resembling a "hacker scene" that I swore it had to be some SF event being overly clever with its name. I live about 30 minutes from STL (or as the cool kids say: StL) so maybe I'll check out their monthly Code Til Dawn http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/#past http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/#past
- philip1209 14y ago
  It is this Friday! I'll be there. It's an awesome event. Swing by TREx sometime too (http://downtowntrex.com http://downtowntrex.com)
- michaelsbradley 14y ago
  There's some great high-tech, hacker, and startup stuff going on in Saint Louis: Yearly The Strange Loop Conference: https://thestrangeloop.com/ https://thestrangeloop.com/ Monthly Lambda Lounge: http://lambdalounge.org/ http://lambdalounge.org/ Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup (STLJS): http://www.stljs.org/ http://www.stljs.org/ http://vimeo.com/stljs http://vimeo.com/stljs STLRuby: http://stlruby.org http://stlruby.org Code Until Dawn: http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/ http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/ StartLouis: http://startlouis.com/ http://startlouis.com/ Build Guild in St. Louis: http://saintlouis.buildguild.org/ http://saintlouis.buildguild.org/ There's lots more too, those are just ones I'm either involved in or hear about frequently.

jrockway 14y ago

STL means St. Louis.

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tedivm 14y ago

It's the location, St. Louis.

mkopinsky 14y ago

If you read the article, it's pretty clear that it's referring to St. Louis. While I agree that it should have spelled it out in the title, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to click through and RTFA.

heretoo 14y ago
> RTFA It's not spelt out whether your intent here is to berate the guy or not, but I get the distinct impression that it is. Your response is rude and uncalled for. I read the article and it's not clear to me that STL is supposed to be equivalent to St Louis, because it isn't spelt out, and furthermore, I don't intend on looking it up in a dictionary of acronyms referring to foreign places that I may never visit, without first knowing that STL refers to a place.
shocks 14y ago
No. It's not "pretty clear". I read the article and I had no idea. But then, if you'd have RTFA then perhaps you would have known that too?
- cantankerous 14y ago
  The third paragraph mentions St. Louis in an unabbreviated form. I picked it up almost right away.

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ecspike 14y ago

STL is the airport code and shorthand for St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

astrodust 14y ago

It's the Standard Library now. STL is the SGI precursor. People insist on calling it STL for whatever reason, maybe because it's the STandard Library. Or it could be St. Louis? Or Seattle?

duaneb 14y ago
The hackathon refers to the airport code for Saint Louis.
rys 14y ago
I think you mean Standard Template Library in that context. The C and C++ standard libraries aren't referred to that way (at least not commonly!).
- astrodust 14y ago
  Just as people call them "ATM Machines" it doesn't mean "STL" is the name of the C++ Standard Library.

sillysaurus 14y ago

I was so shocked that St Louis had anything close to resembling a "hacker scene" that I swore it had to be some SF event being overly clever with its name. I live about 30 minutes from STL (or as the cool kids say: StL) so maybe I'll check out their monthly Code Til Dawn http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/#past http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/#past

philip1209 14y ago
It is this Friday! I'll be there. It's an awesome event. Swing by TREx sometime too (http://downtowntrex.com http://downtowntrex.com)
michaelsbradley 14y ago
There's some great high-tech, hacker, and startup stuff going on in Saint Louis: Yearly The Strange Loop Conference: https://thestrangeloop.com/ https://thestrangeloop.com/ Monthly Lambda Lounge: http://lambdalounge.org/ http://lambdalounge.org/ Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup (STLJS): http://www.stljs.org/ http://www.stljs.org/ http://vimeo.com/stljs http://vimeo.com/stljs STLRuby: http://stlruby.org http://stlruby.org Code Until Dawn: http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/ http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/ StartLouis: http://startlouis.com/ http://startlouis.com/ Build Guild in St. Louis: http://saintlouis.buildguild.org/ http://saintlouis.buildguild.org/ There's lots more too, those are just ones I'm either involved in or hear about frequently.