Masses ridicule author for questioning programmers' stupid number choice

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Masses ridicule author for questioning programmers' stupid number choice

OmegaKV
https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1blmlyq/_/

Of course it is ridiculous to think that the maximum value of a byte would cause a programmer to set a limit of 256 for a variable, because using 1 byte instead of 2 would result in insignificant benefit to the memory usage or performance for something like a chat app.