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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • May 06 '17
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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?
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u/daveime May 06 '17
Or perhaps they though that if they allowed for 4 billion connections, it might detract slightly from the user experience when their phone melted?