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weinzierl • today at 8:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

For everyone wondering why there are so many dollar values in the diagram: $ meant hex in the vernacular of the day.

(Could mean string too, but that'd a different story)


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kbelder • today at 10:22 PM

I so wish we could go back to that convention, rather than the silly '0x' convention. Every language I write in my head (and there's been a bunch) uses that.