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Dmitry Medvedev declares official holiday in Russia: Programmer's Day
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- bcl 17y agoDo we all get the day off?
- ahlatimer 17y agoYou should. It's Saturday.
- emilis_info 17y agoCaturday? Then why does my clocks show it's Sunday?!
- ruslan 17y agoMedvedev has been witnessed using macbooks and is internet savvy guy.
- cesare 17y agoMost of the people I know who use macbooks can't tell an ethernet cable from a shoe string, let alone a bit from a byte. :-) Disclaimer: Mac/Linux user here. And my main machine is a macbook (actually a MBP).
- tlrobinson 17y agoYou could easily replace "MacBooks" with "Windows" in that sentence and it would still be true.
- simanyay 17y agoYou could replace 'MacBooks/Windows' with 'computers' in that sentence and it would still be true.
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- cesare 17y agoTrue. That's why I thought the comment I replied to was kind of pointless.
- forker 17y agoYou couldn't be more wrong guys :) A lot of IT professionals and noobies in Russia dream of MacBook. The different question is that the apple products are much more expensive here rather than overseas. Almost everybody tries to bring it from USA, via eBay or somebody.
- dchest 17y agoIt's kind of different in Russia: you have to know about Apple, Macs are harder to find (only recently Apple Russia began installing tiny Mac booths in large computer stores), there are no ads (except for iPhones), iPods are not popular. 99.9% of people don't know about Apple.
- cturner 17y agoWith macs you don't need to know the difference between a standard ethernet cable and a crossover cable, but I don't think they've extended the web as far as shoe strings yet.
- socmoth 17y ago"The number 256 is chosen because it is the number of integers that can be expressed using a single eight-byte" is the translation off or is this really what they said?
- iamaleksey 17y agoThe translation is a bit off - the original text is correct. But these are not Medvedev's actual words anyway.
- dchest 17y agoOriginal says "eight-bit byte".
- sigizmund 17y agoTranslation sucks. It literally says that "this is a number of integers which can be represented by one eight-bit byte" although it doesn't sound as stupid in Russian (but it still does).
- snitko 17y agoI am so not impressed when politicians and government start doing something meaninglessly nice to any of the industries, because this is so full of shit. Like who cares about programmer's day? Do you? A best any programmer can do to please himself professionally is to write a great piece of code. Unfortunately, these sort of things are used by politicians all over the world to make an illusion that they care and are doing something when in reality they do not. And unfortunately some smart people also buy it.
- pyre 17y agoI would rather they do something like this than start creating all sorts of subsidies to particular industries (or even worse, particular 'industry leaders').
- snitko 17y agoI don't see any connection between these two things. They may as well do both at the same time. The difference is that making someone's day is meaningless and useless to those this day has been made for.
- vaksel 17y agohey if secretaries get their own day, why not programmers?
- snitko 17y agoYeah, and why not anyone else? You'll soon be out of days in year if you're going to give them away that easily. So make sure you only give one to those, who have not voted for you already.
- ivan_i 17y agoAlmost everyone else does have their holiday in Russia. It is an old Soviet tradition to celebrate every kind of work.
- zaidf 17y agoHacker Day would've been better.
- sharjeel 17y ago"In Soviet Russia, Programmer's day is a holiday"
- ilyak 17y agoKeep in mind that it's not a day off, just a holiday as in "notable calendar date".
- frig 17y agoMedvedev's office: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/3714584029_6d37f5a64e_o.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/3714584029_6d37f5a64e_o.... Oval Office: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/21/us/21obama5-600.jpg http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/21/us/21obama5-6...
- Popota 17y agoMedvedev has 2 mice?
- mattyb 17y agoAnd 2 keyboards and 2 monitors.
- Popota 17y agoI still don't see the 4 arms thou...
- just_to_anwer 17y agohttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/02/the-workstations-of-popular-websites/ http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/02/the-workstations-of-... Maybe these people will answer your stupid question..
- frig 17y agoDiscussion I saw said it's two computers: one for public internet one for the high-security gov network (with no physical connection). Apparently that's the norm for very-high-security government setups.
- maxfromua 17y agoof course - 2nd for SS-18 targeting U.S. :)