Talk:Programmer's Day

Deletion

This article was voted for deletion twice: in 2004 and in 2006. Dzied Bulbash (talk) 00:33, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move

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The result of the move request was not moved. Jafeluv (talk) 06:48, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Programmers' Day → Programmer's Day — Correct title in Russian of an official holiday: День программиста - singular not plural. Dzied Bulbash (talk) 00:38, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As often, Russian and English idiom differs. The English text of Medvedev's declaration uses the possessive plural, as is English custom; this honors all programmers, not each person his own programmer. If you think it important, add the difference in idiom to the article. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:44, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, the official English sources use the term "Programmers' Day", so that it should be. Since the correct Russian spelling is also provided in the article, it should be enough. --Koveras ^☭ 05:51, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I didn't realize this is a standard form in English. Dzied Bulbash (talk) 21:36, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Recommend Page to be Deleted

I haven't received a gift, and apparently nobody but programers who visit wiki know about this holiday, which represent about 0.000000000....(256 0's)2 percent of the human population. Programmer's Day isn't real, delete this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.135.17.66 (talk) 20:51, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So because you don't have it, it isn't real? By your logic I don't think Florida is real! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1B8:10:14:0:0:0:FEED (talk) 08:59, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Correction on the grounds for the 256th day

Statement on article: "The number 256 (2^8) was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, a value well-known to programmers"

An unsigned 8-bit value can go as high as 255. For 256 to be represented one needs 9 bits. It can however hold 256 values (0 - 255).

I don't know whether the mentioned statement was meant as is. If it indeed meant to pick the highest power of 2 below 365, then okay, 256 makes sense -- but in this case, mentioning the 8-bit value is wrong (as 256 takes 9 bits). If the purpose however was to pick the highest representation on an 8-bit value, then it should have been 255, or at least mention that 'as we don't have day 0 out of a year, we assume all values are shifted by 1 and we get 256 instead of 255' -- no idea how you guys wanna make up for it, but the article should indeed be edited to reflect whatever the motivation was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.181.152.211 (talk) 13:59, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Its a mixed can of worms - often in counting, computers use 0..n-1 vs 1..n, and the programmer makes the necessary conversion of +1 when displaying it. So to non-programmers, 255 would be displayed as 256.159.153.129.39 (talk) 14:30, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah... that doesn't remedy what the original statement says. If that is indeed the rationale, it should be said so. Stating that 256 can be represented by 8 bits is wrong. 89.181.152.211 (talk) 00:21, 15 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]