[olug] Stupid Vim trick

Carl Lundstedt clundst at unlserve.unl.edu
Thu Apr 11 16:03:47 UTC 2002


On Wednesday 10 April 2002 14:47, einer wrote:
> Geek Factor 4 Mr. Scott!
I almost replied to this: You think this is geeky, wait until someone posts 
that they don't get it because endian has to do with byte ordering...

Andy Kaufmann would be so proud...

Carl Lundstedt
UNL
> Unfortunately, a co-worker saw me adding up the binary.  That's one you
> just don't want to explain... "Well, see I'm on this e-mail list ..."
>
> His eyes glazed when the word 'endian' entered the conversation.  Carl, I
> think you broke him.
>
> Andrew Holm-Hansen
>
> Carl Lundstedt wrote:
> >On Wednesday 10 April 2002 13:57, William Kempf wrote:
> >>You should have offered 6 bits: "101010".
> >
> >This is funny depending on if you are big-endian or little-endian...
> >
> >Carl Lundstedt
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