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It could also be referring to the classic https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mick

• stingraycharles 13y ago
  Both wrong; from the site: "Nightwatch got its name from the famous painting The Night Watch by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The masterpiece is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam - The Netherlands". http://nightwatchjs.org/guide http://nightwatchjs.org/guide
  • mbq 13y ago
    ...which was called such because the painting got dirty and buried under tons of varnish; the actual title is "The Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out."
• delian66 13y ago
  Thank you for this link ... it was an epic reading, a true classic indeed.