It's not Programmers' Day where I'm at. Stupid timezones!
Timezones: a bane of any programmer's existence.
Programmers' Day is UTC. If everyone used UTC, there would be no bane.
Happy Programmers' Day
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#12Do we get a wish? If so, I'd like some extra time to develop some open source android apps. Been meaning to do so, but time...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
New Year's Day would still be Day 1.
Yes, that's point. 0 and 1. No day 0, so make it day 1.
You're just taunting us that the year isn't zero-indexed! You could at least have the decency to hide it from us like Oracle[1].
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#15we need a _happy programmmers_ day
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#16If only I could convince my employer to give me the day off without using my annual leave allowance...
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#17One day I'll make use of the codeappreciationday.org site I got back in 2011. We should make it an official startup company holiday ;-).
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#18What is the point in having such _days_? Consequently, shouldn't we also have a Scientists' day, an Actors' day, a Plumbers' day, blah blah? Everyone has a place in the universe. All we have to do is never to forget our true calling.
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#19What is the point in having such _days_? Consequently, shouldn't we also have a Scientists' day, an Actors' day, a Plumbers' day, blah blah? Everyone has a place in the universe. All we have to do is never to forget our true calling.
That's the heritage of Soviet Union, where people of labor were the cornerstone of ideology. Consequently every profession got the day to celebrate. I haven't seen it in any other country.
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#20So it's day 0x100. Good to know