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Discussion on: Bitmasks: A very esoteric (and impractical) way of managing booleans

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Basti Ortiz

Sometimes, I feel like bit manipulation is an underappreciated art. Your example proves it. We use compression algorithms everyday, especially in the Web where all network requests must be minimized as much as possible, yet there is little attention and appreciation given to it.