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I congratulate the programmers day to every person here on the forums and world wide!
The number 256 (2^8) 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. Starting from zero, the 256th value represented by a sequential permutation of 8 bits is unsigned integer 255 or hexadecimal 0xff or binary 0b11111111. 256 is the highest power of two that is less than 365, the number of days in a common year.
By the same logic, the color white was chosen because it represents a hex number with the largest value in a 24-bit red green blue (RGB) color space: 0xFFFFFF, so programmers worldwide wear white in celebration.
This particular day was proposed by Valentin Balt, an employee of Parallel Technologies web design company. As early as 2002 he tried to gather signatures for a petition to the Government of Russia to recognize the day as the official programmers' day.
All have a pleasant programming day ;)
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Posted 13 September 2011 - 07:22 AM
Vaielab
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lololo nice.
But I don't think my clients will give me the day off because of this... well I'll try at least :P
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If this was a leap years, does our day move or stay the same?
But I don't think my clients will give me the day off because of this... well I'll try at least :P
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If this was a leap years, does our day move or stay the same?
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Posted 13 September 2011 - 07:35 AM
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it would be on the 12th of September
Though good luck trying to get the day off :) :)
Though good luck trying to get the day off :) :)
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Posted 13 September 2011 - 09:09 AM
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Posted 15 September 2011 - 04:09 AM
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hehe... Thanks for congratulation.. I'll celebrate it on this weekend. :rolleyes:
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Posted 15 September 2011 - 10:36 PM
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Do we get cake?
Please, write clearly with proper structure. Double spacing makes the text feel un-jointed, Capitalizing Every Word Means People Stop Before Every Word Sub-Consciously Which Is A Pain In The Backside, and use code tags! (The right most styling box).
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Posted 21 September 2011 - 07:27 PM
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Good point. Normal celebrations usually involve something like cake or similar. I wonder what programmers should get for their celebration.
Wait, what are we celebrating again?
Wait, what are we celebrating again?
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Posted 28 September 2011 - 10:51 AM
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I feel ashamed that I missed that day :S
I would have taken a day off and go party with my work friends :D
I would have taken a day off and go party with my work friends :D
yo homie i heard you like one-line codes so i put a one line code that evals a decrypted one line code that prints "i love one line codes"
eval(base64_decode("cHJpbnQgJ2kgbG92ZSBvbmUtbGluZSBjb2Rlcyc7"));
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