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happily
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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adv. Of software, used to emphasize that a program is unaware of some
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important fact about its environment, either because it has been fooled into
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believing a lie, or because it doesn't care. The sense of happy here is not
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that of elation, but rather that of blissful ignorance. The program
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continues to run, happily unaware that its output is going to /dev/null.
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Also used to suggest that a program or device would really rather be doing
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something destructive, and is being given an opportunity to do so. If you
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enter an O here instead of a zero, the program will happily erase all your
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data. Nevertheless, use of this term implies a basically benign attitude
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towards the program: It didn't mean any harm, it was just eager to do its
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job. We'd like to be angry at it but we shouldn't, we should try to
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understand it instead. The adjective cheerfully is often used in exactly the
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same way.
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