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> Highly debatable. For the sake of debate: call me old-fashioned, but I don't ever want to rely on code from a "developer" who isn't familiar with binary nota

• mynameisvlad 3y ago
  How does knowing binary produce meaningfully better code? Most of us aren't working at a low enough level for it to be substantial. You should be judging the code, not the person who wrote it.
  • denton-scratch 3y ago
    For nearly all of the software I rely on, I haven't examined the code. I'm not in a position to judge it. For most of that software, of course, I'm not in a position to judge the developer either; but if all I know is that the developer isn't familiar with binary and hex, then I wouldn't expect her to be competent to write, for example, a brochure website, let alone a webserver. URL encoding depends on hex. Debugging often depends on hex. Arithmetic overflow and carry are binary. Twos-complement notation for signed integers is a binary convention. I wouldn't hire a developer who couldn't explain binary notation. In fact I don't think I've ever met one like that. As I suggested, perhaps I'm old-fashioned.