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I disagree. Not wanting to learn hex does not make you less of a techie. One can only focus on so much, and tech is huge.

• cyphar 9y ago
  In Australia you learn about base-N numbers in primary school, I don't understand why you see that as a huge undertaking. Ultimately if you ever have to check the mode of a file on *nix, or interact with bitmasks in any way, you're going to run into numbers in different bases. Not to mention memory addresses when debugging. I mean, it's not _mandatory_ but it's something you'll run into eventually (though since I do quite low level systems programming, I expect that I see hex a lot more often than web developers -- though CSS colours are also in hex).
  • osandov 9y ago
    File modes are typically written in octal, not hex.
    • cyphar 9y ago
      What my point was meant to be is that you deal with numbers in different bases all the time. Fixed.