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Tell HN: Happy Programmers' Day to all devs in HN

51 pointsby 6y agoen.wikipedia.org
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6y agoHN ↗

In China, the programmer's day is October 24

6y agoHN ↗

Well, it doesn't work for many countries that use DD/MM instead of MM/DD.

6y agoHN ↗

We'd have to include the year in that case. That would mean we'd celebrate Programmer's Day on

33519519824856492748 93506249551461531869 84145514809834443089 03609304410075183867 44200468574541725856 92250796454662151271 34384707029866424866 0841225152-10-24 (2^510),

10972248137587377366 51187250237441854014 87852718646641402240 03976912394763519345 89433035139907272558 72265694506757442234 89916367725489295806 44820743649134059922 89974014200125290711 80395583868049283025 08252471959038318790 78578163379805855170 00782912424520905193 15101917968428014761 22873721212986041030 4-10-24 (2^1010), etc.

6y agoHN ↗

This comment makes my HN uncomfortably wide.

6y agoHN ↗

I added some spaces among the digit sequences for you.

6y agoHN ↗

Good point. In the spirit of https://xkcd.com/927/ I propose we add "european programmer's day", celebrated on 5.12 (Dag Sinterklaasje)?

Let's all meet here again. I'll bring a bottle or two of Pastis 512 (unfortunately adjusted with magic marker instead of a hex editor) and we can blast Dylan Beattie and the Linebreakers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKp2StlS6s

6y agoHN ↗

¿Por qué no los dos?

For today, the highest budget[1] celebration I've run across: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrH8xyJG4rc

I'll have to try to find something else for 2020-10-24, but it appears Sun Wukong had a hacker's aversion to authority, so maybe that avenue will be fruitful?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_King#Havoc_in_Heaven

[1] https://101zabava.club/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/pozdravlen...

left panel: programmer working

right panel: programmer celebrating Programmers' Day

6y agoHN ↗

Excellent question. I rely heavily on machine translation, and while auto-subtitling on YouTube is misleading for speech, it's atrocious for song[1]. Maybe we'll get some native speakers to answer by tomorrow?

[1] this is a parody, so no published lyrics. The original tune was italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM63xMU6FEc .

6y agoHN ↗

I just chastised my FB friends for not wishing me a "Happy Programmers Day". They're all feigning ignorance.

6y agoHN ↗

Watch as this becomes an interview question.

6y agoHN ↗

Could be a question for leading roles, expecting to evaluate how much this person cares about keeping his troop content :)

6y agoHN ↗

I've yet to meet a happy programmer, maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.