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Four Days of Go – Evan Miller

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Part of my work involves the mild reverse-engineering of binary file formats. I say “mild” because usually other people do all of the actual work; I just have to figure out what an extra flag field or two means, and I then take as much credit as possible for the discovery on my blog.

Four Days of Go – Evan Miller Four Days of Go By Evan Miller April 21, 2015 Translations: Japanese Part of my work involves the mild reverse-engineering of binary file formats. I say “mild” because usually other people do all of the actual work; I just have to figure out what an extra flag field or two means, and I then take as much credit as possible for the discovery on my blog. To see what’s in the guts of a binary file, I use a hex editor, though even my favorite one is a bit of a chore to use. When I’m trying to figure out a file format, I want to mark it up with my hypotheses about what

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