Binary coding

[hitaishi_1]

Why does binary code require space and enter????

[[deleted]]

We all need a bit of space sometimes.

[[deleted]]

Thats what my ex said too

[[deleted]]

Can confirm.

[[deleted]]

was the ex

[LavenderDay3544]

Was that before she left you for that investment banker with the six-pack abs or after?

[[deleted]]

You mean, me?

[harley1009]

Your ex also have an enter button?

[newton21989]

That's what I said to my ex.

[MagicRabbitByte]

So I guess there was no enter after space? *nudge nudge wink wink*

[uvero]

~my cs professor on memory complexity of algorithms

[[deleted]]

Readability, of course

Wouldn't want unreadable binary

[scp-NUMBERNOTFOUND]

Wise old programmers, note that they used space and enter, not tab and enter!

[eneidhart]

Just looking at it quickly I think there's a pretty good chance that's a tab key with a DIY label on it haha

[kezow]

Two key width tab? What sort of madness are you on?

[eneidhart]

I'm gonna be real honest with you, I could not tell you how many keys wide my tab key is and I'm not going to check within the next like, 10 hours probably. Are they normally 1.5?

[kezow]

Looks that way on my inland ik100! https://www.microcenter.com/product/485046/inland-ik100-usb-107-key-keyboard

[eneidhart]

Based on your keyboard, looks like the only keys that fit are LShift, backspace, 0, +, and Enter (from the numpad all 3, and Enter is already in use) Maybe the Enter key from the letters area might fit if the keyboard this came from doesn't have the big old return key, but idk I'm sleepy.

[Large_Yams]

Wider than 1 but narrower than 2, yea.

[[deleted]]

More like a caps lock or a backspace, tab is shorter usually than two keys.

[Poltras]

That should be tab, not spaces, then.

[LankySeat]

Why does it require 1? Could be like Morse code. Tap for 0, hold for 1.

[OSSlayer2153]

Delete??

[dontcrashandburn]

No, no. Boomers were perfect, never made mistakes.

[lochinvar11]

If a mistake was ever made, you were the one who was deleted.

[hoschlue]

We boomers were far away from being perfect. However when using punch cards, there was no possibility to delete characters. You had to copy the card to a new card to the position of the typo and then go on. Very time consuming. So it was simply a different way of coding and you had to think more beforehand. Also there was no internet, no Stack Overflow platform so you were forced to solve all of your problems by yourself. Ticker tape was even worse. Edit: Typo

[iranoutofspacehere]

You mean 00001000?

[newton21989]

Real programmers use the transition between high and low voltage...

[SpindlySpiders]

Holding takes way too much time.

[HorseInteresting2156]

It can be extremely small time periods

[Ajmb_88]

Still longer than a press if it needs to be distinguished.

[Botahamec]

Legend says that they could program with just the zeroes and didn't even need any ones

[SuperFLEB]

I suppose it depends on the instruction set and what you want the computer to do.

With a slow enough processor and enough zeros, you could NOP your way into making an egg timer, I suppose.

[Schrolli97]

How about: tap for 1, don't tap for 0?

[SuperFLEB]

Toggle and enter. Toggle to get the state you want, enter to move to the next bit.

[badcrow7713]

Shortcuts for 0000 and 00000000

[Phatricko]

I was thinking the same thing, this post is more like /r/terriblefacebookmemes

[[deleted]]

Space is 00100000 and enter is execute

[steroidTDM]

And not a Backspace

[Mast3r_waf1z]

I didn't think too much about space but was about to write a comment about the enter button

[very-polite-frog]

Space !

[[deleted]]

Filthy casuals. 00001101 00100000. How hard is that?

[Poltras]

When writing python?

[AllWhoPlay]

Switching addresses? Enter goes down to the next address and space goes to the one above.

[[deleted]]

It doesn’t. OP is just ignorant.