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Anyone tell me what I'm meant to do on Programmers Day or why it even exists?
by Tyrannosaurs 15y ago
Anyone tell me what I'm meant to do on Programmers Day or why it even exists?
- MarkPNeyer 15y agosolve an np complete problem in your head!
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoPah, real programmers are doing that every day.
- hugh3 15y agoEasy, for sufficiently small problem size!
- simonsarris 15y agoWe can all do this! Given { −2, −3, 4, 13, −1}, is there a non-empty subset of the numbers that sums to zero?
- atomicdog 15y agoWhat are you supposed to do on "Martin Luther King" day?
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoI (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.
- Tomek_ 15y agoThe origin of PD comes from Russia and AFAIK they have this tradition (inherited from the times of communism) there to celebrate professions with a special day dedicated to them, so yes, they do have firemen day, miner day or policemen day.