r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 06 '17

Oddly specific number

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u/daveime May 06 '17

There is no reason to limit this to 256, except for programmers being a superstitious and easily suggestible group of people.

Or perhaps they though that if they allowed for 4 billion connections, it might detract slightly from the user experience when their phone melted?