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I 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 w
by snitko 17y ago
I 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.
- sigizmund 17y agoStill don't see what's wrong with it - it's not a public holiday, but it still a chance for people to see that their field of work is valuable for country. So - why not?
- vijayr 17y agoSeems to me, the only people who benefit from these "days" are the greeting card companies. Programmers day greeting card, anyone?
- sigizmund 17y agoAh common, what's wrong with the fact that Mr Medvedev actually points out that this industry is important for the country?! You can easily replace Medvedev with, say, Her Majesty (and Russia with the UK) and the idea remains the same.