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It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic?
mikejuk writes: Programmers Day comes around every year and yet each year it seems to be increasingly ignored. Why, when we are trying to encourage children to take up all things computing, is Programmers Day such a big flop? If you've not encountered it before, the idea is that on a specific day we celebrate computer programmers. It is designated to be on the 256th day of the year, which in most years is September 13th and this year, 2015, it falls on a Sunday. If you don't know why it's the 256th day, then you probably aren't a programmer and there is no point in explaining. The usual suggestions for things to do on programmer day include telling jokes and other fairly lame stuff. How about instead: Teach someone to program just a little bit.
Is that 256 counting from 0 or from 1?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
On Sunday - because we're programmers.
Greed is the root of all evil.
> You would be surprised to learn that many make more than your average programmer.
Almost half, I would guess!
Random capitalization Is Fun.
#DeleteChrome
That's Microsoft day.
You already celebrate it every Tuesday.
I was born on January 0th, you insensitive clod!