When I say "binaries", I'm not referring to a binary file, but rather a programmer who is familiar with, and uses base 2 in practice. I've come to know quite a few excellent programmers, but found that they all share one fault (in my opinion) – they live and breathe in base 10.<\/p>\n
This is understandable, after all, we are developing in high level languages which already do quite a bit of work for us, why not let them deal with extra space requirements needed by base 10.<\/p>\n
Simply put, it's easier all the way down the stack (front-end of application down to the CPU itself) for the PC to work with base 2. So, why not lean that direction yourself.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest culprits that I find is database field lengths.<\/p>\n
I see a lot of:<\/p>\n
\n\tWhile those are nice "round" numbers in our eyes, I'd have to imagine that the database engine would be just a bit happier to see:<\/p>\n \t<\/code><\/p>\n A browser might prefer:<\/p>\n Instead of<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of course, these things have to line up with your business logic, but they only serve as examples of possible ways you can improve your code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I say "binaries", I'm not referring to a binary file, but rather a programmer who is familiar with, and uses base 2 in practice.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[14,41,13],"tags":[167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CREATE TABLE mytable (
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