Happy Programmers’ Day
Today is Programmers’ Day. How September 13th (and September 12th during leap years) was chosen to represent programmers is so nerdy, I’m still not entirely sure I understand it. What I do know is that this is probably the awesomest way to decide the day of a holiday ever. From Wikipedia:
The number 256 (28) 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. Starting from zero, the 256th value represented by a sequential permutation of 8 bits is unsigned integer 255 or hexadecimal 0xff or binary 0b11111111. 256 is the highest power of two that is less than 365, the number of days in a common year.
Wondering what to get your favorite programmer? How abou this rad StarWars Moleskine notebook. All programmers like StarWars, right? That’s like a job requirement I think. Heck even non-StarWars lovers will dig the notebook.
