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Happy Programmer Day!
netbuzz writes "As made-up holidays go, today's event – Programmer Day – doesn't get the attention or respect of, say, SysAdmin Day or Talk Like a Pirate Day. (One exception appears to be Russia, where 'Programmers' Day' has been 'officially recognized' since 2009.) Yet programmers and their fans are taking to public forums, if not in droves at least in growing groups, to give coders their due respect."
Don't feed the code monkeys!
Coders, you can expect reciprocation on how much respect you paid your sysadmin on sysadmin day.
...a computer programmer...
Your job became taking young programmers who love what they do and extracting their souls, motivating them to follow the same path you did.
Shouldn't it be "255" and not "265"?
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I'm a programmer and sysadmin* and I still think appreciation days and the people who insist on creating them are annoying and self-serving.
*see what I did there? I told you I was someone who would conceivably benefit from appreciation days, and by distancing myself from them, have shown you that my opinion is untainted by self-interest, therefore lending my opinion more weight. Knowing this now, mod up accordingly.
Due to a bug "Programmer Day" never got the appropriate attention.
Shouldn't it be "255" and not "265"?
Sorry, they had to ship the article before it passed QA. We have created a support ticket and are working on a patch to resolve the problem.
How apt!
According to this guy, it's 256th in our calendar because we're starting at an index of one. If we start at a zero index, it would be 255. Careful with that off-by-one error.
Can't be much of a holiday with cake. :(
Don't stop where the ink does.
What day is 0000 0000 hint its the first day.
You start to read the summary, you feel appreciated. Things are going well.
And then....
where 'Programmers' Day' has been
UNMATCHED QUOTES!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I once remarked to my admin on "Admin Day" that to be fair, there should also be a "Programmer Day". Her response? "Honey, _every_ day is Programmer Day."
Programmer Day wasn't in the requirements. Show me the spec and I'll have it ready next Tuesday.
WALSTIB!
Don't taunt the code monkeys in forums or they may fling poo at you.
Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
public class ProgrammerDay {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Happy Programmer Day everyone!");
}
}
Shouldn't it be "255" and not "265"?
Kids today have no respect for binary. Back in the day, we had to code in hexadecimal ... in 6 feet of snow! Uphill!
Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
Shouldn't it be "255" and not "265"?
It is 256 distinct values and not the highest number. The highest number depends on the interpretation (e.g. it is 127 in two's compliment).
Maybe it should say something more like "I tried Python but decided it was too cumbersome, but I'm going to try OpenGL next because it seems like a neat language"
Now all you need to do is learn some programming languages.
They should do their research before inventing things that duplicate things that already exist. Most professions have a day dedicated to them simply because most professions have a patron saint, and all saints have a day allocated to them by the Catholic church.
In the case of programming, the relevant saint is Isidore of Seville, whose saint's day is 4th of April.
FTFA: "Programmer Day has been celebrated on the 265th day of the year since" .. that's a typo.. 256 is correct of course, as explained by other comments.
I just enrolled for a Computer Science degree today.
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
Besides, everyone knows that Programmers Day is also April Fools Day ("You really believed we wouldn't change the specs AGAIN? Fooled ya!")
A little crimson white and just use the brush to paint in those Happy Little Programmers with white hats here and there. Just layer them for a nice contrast. You can also paint some Happy Little Programmers with black hats using midnight back for some real contrast.
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by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
wish I didn't know this, it's a sad sad day :/
You can't handle the truth.
Butterflies and all... real programmers hack every day to be a programmer day, it's not a day if it ain't hacked to be day of programmer.
You can't handle the truth.
From TFA "The number 256 was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte-a number that is typically very well known to programmers...The number 256 was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte-a number that is typically very well known to programmers."
All you 2 bit programmers, get yer own day!!!
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Having been both a sysadmin and programmer, I have to honestly say that while sysadmin day is deserved, programming day isn't. There's just simply much more to sysadmins that are underappreciated when compared to programmers:
* Sysadmins setup routine systems that are built by programmers (who usually get the credit).
* Sysadmins only get (negative) attention when something goes awry.
* There's usually no mention of sysadmins anywhere.
* Unless you are very technical, you probably don't even know that sysadmins exist!
In contrast, programmers have it nice in the sense that when they do a good job, they are seen as the heroes who created the system. People go to programmers for feature requests in addition to bug reports. Their names are usually listed in an about dialog or readme file somewhere. Also, unless you are completely technically illiterate, you know that someone has to create the software.
The final bit: the infrastructure will crash and burn without sysadmins, but without programmers, it'll just cease to advance.
Having a Programmer Day in addition to Sysadmin Day is like having an Executive Day in addition to Labor Day: unnecessary, unjustified. In both cases, the former already has the glory on a daily basis that the latter is hugely lacking.
I thought the conflicting specifications was intentional irony.
Programmer Day should be on a different day every year. And the day shouldn't be announced until it's already passed.
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my prime number sieve discards both numbers
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The birthday of Chuck Norris is etched into time itself.
Kinda funny that the Programmer Day FAQ lists Programmer's Day as Sept. 12th for leap years, but the countdown on the homepage fails to take this into account. You'd think the countdown value being greater than 365 days today would be a dead giveaway to their... programmers...
So should I really appreciate some noodle head's VB thing that instacrashes windows? Or what about a sandboxed scripting language that still allows full access to to the root system? What about that stock market thing where one "oops" in the chaos of a trading day caused a major panic?
My point is it really should be called "Happy Competent Programmer Day!" or else we should be giving people pats on the back for writing gems like the Sony customer database interface.
PS: I am no where near competent in programming, I just do it as a hobby, where is my hallmark card.
It's programmer day, not cryptographer day.
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An off-by-one index had done it again.
Shouldn't that be 0x06 feet of snow?
And remember, there are no bugs, just happy little features.
Ye wouldna be needin' all that loot if there weren't landlubbers to fence it to, mate!
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The number 255 is still the 256th number if you start at 0 - makes no difference.
Leap years raise a good question...we should have it a day earlier on leap years. :-)
This seemed like a reasonable sig at the time.
256 from the start of the year ... in which Calendar? Ethiopian, Coptic, Chinese, Russian Orthodox, French Revolutionary?
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Each iteration of programer's day will get a little bigger, until it takes the whole year... then it will crash.
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That's a downer. Maybe Programmer Day should be decided by two unsynchronized threads, and the date isn't final until they deadlock.
Yeah, I worded that not the best. Meant the same thing, numbered 255 if zero index which is still 256th number.
Yup, that's how it is. Sept 12th on a leap year. Kind of like those holidays that are "second Monday of this month" kind of thing. The exact date doesn't matter. Just happens to be Sept 13 this year.