2006-08-30
When you are programming it is often convenient to have 32-bit values that, when displayed in hex (base-16), spell words (e.g, 0xdeadbeef). These values are useful for signifying specific conditions either within a program’s resident memory or in persistent storage.
I found a cool list of words that were pragmatically generated and expanded to include l337 spellings.
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