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Re:Visualizing hex bytes with Unicode emoji by windytan on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:33AM (#8532176)
It's meant as a shorthand for "hex-encoded bytes".
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Re:Visualizing hex bytes with Unicode emoji by userbinator on Thursday October 30, 2014 @08:39AM (#8532564)
You're really just interpreting bytes as characters in a different character set. "Visualizing hex bytes" suggests something slightly different, like using an emoji for each of the digits 0-9 and A-F (not much unlike the other proposals for writing hex digits, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_Martin_hexadecimal_n... .)
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Re:Visualizing hex bytes with Unicode emoji by acqq on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:42AM (#8537717)
What you believe "hex bytes" suggest to you (but falsely) are actually "nibbles"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble

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