Programmers' Day
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Every day is programmer's day.
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 around 1,260,000. That's just awesome.
We create so much value, and for so many people.
Oh, seems that Facebook makes 1.2 dollars per user from your numbers
As for Facebook's revenue-per-user based on revenue-per-employee and number of users, you'll need the number of employees (not just engineers). That's about 2000, which works out to $4 per user. This is exactly inline with what was documented in this nifty chart: http://wallstcheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/chart...
Amazon is kicking ass. Apple only makes $150 revenue per iOS user (Asymco).
I think saving money on designers can be justified, after all ;-)
http://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/profit_margin#compCos=AMZN...
[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...
That's the hacker spirit.
McDonalds may make 'only' $60,000 per employee, but it employs over 1.5 million people. I'm grateful that McDs are providing jobs for those who need them. They also of course offer opportunities for people to own franchises and run their 'own' businesses
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 :)
Don't give awards to comedians.
Awards are for people who are looking for work,
and we're not looking for work.
Extract from Humble Programmer[1]
"..in 1957, I married and Dutch marriage rites require you to state your profession and I stated that I was a programmer. But the municipal authorities of the town of Amsterdam did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession. And, believe it or not, but under the heading "profession" my marriage act shows the ridiculous entry "theoretical physicist"!.."
[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340....
As a child, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always answered that I wanted to kill bugs. Of course, this was a bit before our meaning of "bug" became common knowledge, so it always got a good laugh. I'm thrilled to have followed my childhood dream to be a part of this wonderful industry of err exterminators. Happy PD everybody!
You should have joined the Mobile Infantry. They're doing their part in killing bugs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7-PQIuWwLo
(yes, when people mention killing bugs, I do Starship Troopers jokes ;)).
Dijkstra was really hard core in terms of correctness. He insisted that each programmer had to work out a mathematical proof that his program will always provide correct output for every single possible input, and submit that proof when submitting the program. Things did not work out that way.
Only Programmers would have a holiday in which we wear white after labor day to celebrate.
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.
No seriously, manufacturing engineers need more recognition, and don't even belong on the same list as lawyers. More children need to know that "building machines" is a viable career choice. I wish I had known . . . [/rant]
ÿ : 256th ascii character (should henceforth be the Programmers' day symbol)
correction: Extended ASCII character per http://www.ascii-code.com/
On Halloween we dress in costumes.
On Festivus we air grievances and perform feats of strength.
On Programmer's Day? We argue about the naming of things!
(Though we have to figure out how to turn it into a drinking game.)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%B8#Character_encodings.
Today just happened to be an unexpectedly productive programming day... I guess I was "celebrating" without realizing it :)
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[UPD]: Disambiguation: this holiday has no meaning to the ordinary Russians.
http://habrastorage.org/storage1/9882fe1c/28be61de/5ec00a27/...
(Programmer is working. / Programmer is celebrating the programmers' day)
Given { −2, −3, 4, 13, −1}, is there a non-empty subset of the numbers that sums to zero?
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.