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ipnon on June 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deep JavaScript: Theory and Techniques

Antagonistic JavaScript code golfers typically are not JavaScript users, I've found.

edit: It's like writing an intentional buffer overflow in C. You don't see it as often because it requires actually knowing how to program.

XCSme on June 17, 2020 [–]

The thing is, the result above is not even specific to JavaScript (in PHP for example it also returns `true`), and it makes a lot of sense if you know what the bitwise operators do.

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