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Tue Jun 27 08:25:40 EDT 2017 Slept from ten to seven. Woke briefly around four. Mostly sunny and seventy-two. Work: - Review invoices Done. - Fix Kathy's network shares at 2:30 PM Done. https://sysadmin.it-landscape.info/ Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Stopped at Meijer for a few groceries. Home: - Finish D&D session report Not quite. - Work on Trouble Garden Done. https://lobste.rs/s/nvfect/c_standard_versus_c_mother_all_hacks_more > Early versions of GCC took that in classic hacker humor fashion, even. The C89 standard defines the “#pragma” directive as having “undefined behavior”. Early GCC versions would, upon encountering an unknown “#pragma”, launch NetHack or Rogue. http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions > Douglas Crockford put the following clause in the JSON license “The Software should be used for Good, not Evil.” > About once a year, I get a letter from a lawyer, every year a different lawyer, at a company – I don’t want to embarrass the company by saying their name, so I’ll just say their initials --- IBM --- saying that they want to use something I wrote. Because I put this on everything I write, now. They want to use something that I wrote in something that they wrote, and they were pretty sure they weren’t going to use it for evil, but they couldn’t say for sure about their customers. So could I give them a special license for that? > Of course. So I wrote back – this happened literally two weeks ago – “I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.” Breakfast: skipped Lunch: coffee, spinach, rice and bean burrito, apple Dinner: fries, chicken sandwich

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