Happy Programmer Day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819947

by emilis_info • 17 years ago

30 10 17 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Its 256th of the year :-)

Beanblabber2• 17 years ago

By that logic...

the 2nd,4th,8th,16th,32nd,64th,128th days

are all days of the programmer.

I guess we're just cool enough to get "sum(x +=x while x < 256)" days each year

paulitex• 17 years ago

Umm... you mean "8", right?

idan• 17 years ago

Nope, he really means 2.

Raphael• 17 years ago

It's the largest power of 2 under 365.

Beanblabber2• 17 years ago

I failed.

chaosmachine• 17 years ago

It's official:

MOSCOW, September 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree instituting Programmer Day that will be marked on September 13 (the 256th day of a year) and September 12 in a leap year, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14324034&...

PieSquared• 17 years ago

I'm having such a great time telling all my friends about this :) (who are also coders)

SingAlong• 17 years ago

something similar here.

I'm going to write about this to my girlfriend (who is a wanna-be-hacker). Now I have another reason to speak to her.

This day also has another significance. It's on this day that IBM introduced the first storage disk unit the RAMAC 305 in 1956 and it stored 5 million 8-bit characters.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMAC

NathanKP• 17 years ago

So what are we going to do to celebrate "Programmer Day"? Clearly, I'll have to celebrate by digging out some old coding projects and reminiscing. ;)

rbanffy• 17 years ago

That's so 8-bit!

Happy Programmer Day

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