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sant0sk1 on March 21, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fa...

A remark from 1 mentor I have never forgotten:

1. If you can't think in base-8 you CAN'T be a programmer!

so I set out to write a program that would think in base-8 for me...

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