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It's official:

MOSCOW, September 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree instituting Programmer Day that will be marked on September 13 (the 256th day of a year) and September 12 in a leap year, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14324034&...

So what are we going to do to celebrate "Programmer Day"? Clearly, I'll have to celebrate by digging out some old coding projects and reminiscing. ;)

I'm having such a great time telling all my friends about this :) (who are also coders)

something similar here.

I'm going to write about this to my girlfriend (who is a wanna-be-hacker). Now I have another reason to speak to her.

This day also has another significance. It's on this day that IBM introduced the first storage disk unit the RAMAC 305 in 1956 and it stored 5 million 8-bit characters.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMAC

By that logic...

the 2nd,4th,8th,16th,32nd,64th,128th days

are all days of the programmer.

I guess we're just cool enough to get "sum(x +=x while x < 256)" days each year

Umm... you mean "8", right?

Nope, he really means 2.

It's the largest power of 2 under 365.

I failed.

That's so 8-bit!

Happy Programmer Day