Mike Macgirvin
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Monday, Sep 08 2008, 07:04 am
Mar 11, 2006
Grand Opening

The Badd Cafe is now open.

There's still a lot of code cleanup to do, tons of documentation, and no doubt some bugs will arise.

Welcome to 0x BADD CAFE.

Oh for those of you wondering why oxen have a coffee shop, it's geekspeak. In the 'C' programming language (and several others), prefixing a variable value with 0x (that's a zero, not an 'oh') - indicates that the value is written in hexadecimal (base 16) notation. BADDCAFE is the number 3135097598 in hexadecimal. There isn't anything terribly interesting about this number, except that it is exactly one less than BADDCAFF and precisely 44102FD0 less than FEEDFACE. Amazing! BADDCAFE is also a musical progression, but unlikely to make the top 40 hit list. I know, I played it. Not quite the same magic as ADADADEA.

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