... you notice the current checkin revision number is 32697, and a part of you starts wanting to time your programming just right so that you get checkin 32768...
2 to the 16th, divided by 2. It's one of those magic numbers that any programmer of my generation knows by heart.
(Being able to count the powers of 2 was a basic programming skill for many years, in part because many programs would break when they hit this number...)
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Date: 2011-02-09 05:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-02-09 06:57 pm (UTC)(Being able to count the powers of 2 was a basic programming skill for many years, in part because many programs would break when they hit this number...)
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Date: 2011-02-09 06:24 pm (UTC)omg it took me so long to remember! it was nagging me since I read it.