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		socceroos on Feb 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) I assumed it was a single bit in a string of them that describes a message.

MattHeard on Feb 4, 2015 [–]

You're correct. Single bits representing boolean values are often called "flags".

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