Anyone tell me what I'm meant to do on Programmers Day or why it even exists?
What are you supposed to do on "Martin Luther King" day?
Programmers' Day
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#42Degrees in computer science and computer engineering are in the top 10 for average earnings. We get to build all kinds of cool stuff used by people around the world. For many of us, programming is fun . And we get paid to do it! Every day is programmer's day.
Some interesting data I pulled together today: Approximate revenue-per-employee. Data from Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia. Apple makes $2,000,000 per employee. Facebook makes $1,500,000. Google makes $1,000,000. Microsoft makes $800,000. Sony makes $500,000. Kraft makes $400,000. Walmart makes $200,000. McDonalds makes $60,000. Now, if only there was a good source of users-per-engineer. I read that Facebook is somewhere…
Of course, these are interesting and great numbers, but I don't think that they are the only measure of value.
McDonalds may make 'only' $60,000 per employee, but it employs over 1.5 million people. I'm grateful that McDs are providing jobs for those who need them. They also of course offer opportunities for people to own franchises and run their 'own' businesses
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
Replace "," with "—", and you got it right.
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#44Let's just be practical and all take today off!
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#46"...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."
Only Programmers would have a holiday in which we wear white after labor day to celebrate.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope you mean users-per-engineer. :-) Oh, seems that Facebook makes 1.2 dollars per user from your numbers
Thanks for the correction. As for Facebook's revenue-per-user based on revenue-per-employee and number of users, you'll need the number of employees (not just engineers). That's about 2000, which works out to $4 per user. This is exactly inline with what was documented in this nifty chart: http://wallstcheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/chart... Amazon is kicking ass . Apple only makes $150 revenue per iOS use…
I'd love to see where Adobe or Oracle would fit in on that chart.
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#48Anyone tell me what I'm meant to do on Programmers Day or why it even exists?
What are you supposed to do on "Martin Luther King" day?
I (stay in bed and) have a dream.
That's different, you're remembering a specific person and what they did. I don't need to remember programmers, I am one and I work with them every day.
It just feels to me like harking after gratitude but the reality is that there are loads of people who do useful, important jobs and who get on with it day after day with no more than the usual acknowledgement.
If you do this where do you stop? Firemen day? Doctors day? Sewage workers day?
If you're a programmer, you don't need a special day to think about programmers, if you're not a programmer, then programmers are just one of hundreds of useful trades you should be thankful for, but I see no reason why we're special.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the correction. As for Facebook's revenue-per-user based on revenue-per-employee and number of users, you'll need the number of employees (not just engineers). That's about 2000, which works out to $4 per user. This is exactly inline with what was documented in this nifty chart: http://wallstcheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/chart... Amazon is kicking ass . Apple only makes $150 revenue per iOS use…
Wow, amazon really does kick ass. I think saving money on designers can be justified, after all ;-)
Why should we be surprised that the company whose business is in shipping and selling a wide range of physical products has more revenue than a range of companies whose income are either service fees or advertisements? We're not comparing like with like; Amazon's revenue is counted against by buying and stocking the physical products they sell to derive that revenue. None of the others on that chart have physical product to worry about and so retain a much higher percentage of revenue for themselves.
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#50Degrees in computer science and computer engineering are in the top 10 for average earnings. We get to build all kinds of cool stuff used by people around the world. For many of us, programming is fun . And we get paid to do it! Every day is programmer's day.
Some interesting data I pulled together today: Approximate revenue-per-employee. Data from Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia. Apple makes $2,000,000 per employee. Facebook makes $1,500,000. Google makes $1,000,000. Microsoft makes $800,000. Sony makes $500,000. Kraft makes $400,000. Walmart makes $200,000. McDonalds makes $60,000. Now, if only there was a good source of users-per-engineer. I read that Facebook is somewhere…
Mozilla used to welcome each employee with a little knicknack and say, "This represents your million users. Try not to abuse them too much."