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Wishing all programmers Manÿ Happÿ Returns of the Daÿ and Maÿ each one of those Returns compile successfullÿ ÿ : 256th ascii character (should henceforth be the Programmers' day symbol) correction: Extended ASCII character per http://www.ascii-code.com/
There are only 128 ASCII characters.
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)
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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…
> Apple makes $2,000,000 per employee. Most of their employees are not engineers, but work in retail. Which makes it a bit of an odd case among the other tech companies :)
"...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.
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.
"Effectively spat upon", really? The reason Programmer's Day will never be a thing here is that programming is a low-risk, well-paid, white-collar professional occupation like many others. Nothing special about it, and we don't have a lawyer's day or an actuary's day or a guy who designs the machine that makes tiles for bathrooms day.
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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.
I can't wait to see the Google Doodle for this.
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There are only 128 ASCII characters.
You're right, I should have said Extended ASCII