TIL why JSON doesn't support comments. Brilliant and hilarious, although personally frustrating for me who wants to explain nodejs dependencies

"I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability." - Douglas Crockford

Blown away how active and friendly everyone on here is! 🍻

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I'm also heading up tomorrow through the weekend. Have lots of friends to catch up with but Thursday during the day could work if you wanna talk tech

Totally depends if the steak is expensive or not. Cooking a steak right isn't *that* hard


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