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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Happy Programmer's Day !

Today, new year's evening in Jewish Tradition, also happens to be Programmer's day!

What is Programmer's day ? It is a public holiday in Russia and an international professional day, supposedly raising the awareness of people all over the globe, to the unique and valuable contribution of programmers everywhere to humanity's progress.

The day is celebrated on the 256th (hexadecimal 100th, or the 28th) day of each year (September 13 during common years and on September 12 in leap years). Wikipedia tells that the number 256 was chosen "because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, a value well-known to programmers. 256 is also the highest power of two that is less than 365, the number of days in a common year."

Do not confuse this day with the System Administrator Appreciation Day or with the World Information Society Day. You might choose to use this day to ponder a little why many programmers prefer to work at night. Or you may choose to think about the kinship between programmers of the present and those of the past. Or you might just dedicate a moment of your time to think what real programmers actually use....

Comics about programmers attitudes towards what real programmers use
This work was licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License on xkcd
But on a more serious note, this is a great opportunity to remind everyone who has never programmed, why should you experience programming....  In the words of the following short film, the programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future:


Happy Programmer's Day ! 

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