better here than in my code

[lehser]

One day at my last job (so at least 4.5 years ago), I was poking around in some code that hadn't been touched in years.  I came across a comment, in the middle of a function, that said, "today is 10th anniversary of tiananmen square tragedy," with the coder's initials.  I'd never met this person, or even heard of him. 

Anyway, I thought of that comment today.
 

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[doctorhook.livejournal.com]

Somehow it had utterly escaped my attention all of these years that Tiananmen happened on June 4. (Or possibly I'd known and forgotten, thanks to the Swiss Cheese Effect.)