<![endif] Bzarg Menu Skip to content Home About Projects #site-navigation #masthead .entry-header This bit from HBO’s Silicon Valley cracked me up: Some kid is pitching his revolutionary startup idea to entrepreneur Elrich Bachman: Kid : Here it is: Bit… soup. It’s like alphabet soup, BUT… it’s ones and zeros instead of letters. Bachman : {silence} Kid : ‘Cause it’s binary? You know, binary’s just ones and zeroes. Bachman : Yeah, I know what binary is. Jesus Christ, I memorized the hexadecimal times tables when I was fourteen writing machine code. Okay? Ask me what nine times F is. It’s fleventy-five. I don’t need you to tell me what binary is. We infer that “fleventy-five” is a hexadecimal number, commonly used in coding; presumably it’s 0xF5 (which is not 0x9 times 0xF, as it happens). But instead of saying “eff-five” for the byte 0xF5, Bachman has come ...