Programmers' Day • Hacker News Board

spiralganglion wrote: post #25

yesbabyyes wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instagram has 3 engineers[1], 9 million users[2]: 3 million users per engineer. [1] (counting the co-founders as engineers) http://www.crunchbase.com/company/instagram [2] http://www.kullin.net/2011/09/instagram-now-has-9-million-us...

And, unless I'm mistaken, a revenue hovering around $0. That's the hacker spirit.

The first rule of the bubble is you don't talk about things that might make it pop.

Re: Programmers' Day

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Post by TomVolpe » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 10:46 AM UTC

Happy Programmers' Day! Keep on hacking!

Re: Programmers' Day

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Post by Tyrannosaurs » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 10:50 AM UTC

MarkPNeyer wrote: post #33

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #30

Anyone tell me what I'm meant to do on Programmers Day or why it even exists?

solve an np complete problem in your head!

Pah, real programmers are doing that every day.

Re: Programmers' Day

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Post by brain5ide » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 10:51 AM UTC

I'm ashamed. Came to work after lunch and just then got told it's today. Why didn't I read HN in the morning? Now have to figure out a way to make a hack in the office to awww everybody.

Re: Programmers' Day

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Post by guard-of-terra » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 10:55 AM UTC

hollerith wrote: post #4

Any Russians want to tell us whether this holiday has any meaning to the ordinary Russians?

Just to clarify: it's an official Programmer's Day today in Russia, but it's not a day off. There are all kinds of X's Day-s for many values of X there.

Re: Programmers' Day

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Post by mainguy » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 11:00 AM UTC

va1en0k wrote: post #31

hollerith wrote: post #4

Any Russians want to tell us whether this holiday has any meaning to the ordinary Russians?

I don't know. Please have this Russian comic strip http://habrastorage.org/storage1/9882fe1c/28be61de/5ec00a27/... (Programmer is working. / Programmer is celebrating the programmers' day)

хорошо... каждый день, день программиста (I have no idea if that's right, but I was playing with google translate)

Re: Programmers' Day

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Post by atomicdog » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 11:06 AM UTC

Can you imagine "programmer's day" being officially recognized in a western society such as the US or the UK? Over here, intellectual pursuits such as programming are effectively spat upon.