AFAIK, this is standard on any Unix platform, not just OS X.
This is incorrect, and the linked question actually mentions this…
This differs from what ls on Linux (the one coming from coreutils) does.
I also fail to see why this is news, this behaviour is decades old.
Straight from the guidelines,
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I found it interesting, as the behavior surprises me, and I had no idea BSD ls did this.
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AFAIK, this is standard on any Unix platform, not just OS X. I also fail to see why this is news, this behaviour is decades old.
This is incorrect, and the linked question actually mentions this…
Straight from the guidelines,
I found it interesting, as the behavior surprises me, and I had no idea BSD ls did this.
Actually it mentions how this comes from BSD, which is a direct descendant of Unix.
Linux is not Unix.
It's amusing that the default behaviour of ls would be interesting to hackings.