256-th day of the year.

This day is actually the programmer’s appreciation day.

According to Wikipedia It was originally proposed by Valentin Balt, a web designer in small company before 9 years, but  made officially instituted by  the Russian president 2 years ago with the

Указ Президента РФ от 11.09.2009 N 1034
“О Дне программиста”

A mug for everyone!

The Wikipedia link  cites some other sources, but for the Russian speaking folks – the most important link is actually in Kremlin’s site and is visible everywhere. http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1026111 I can think of at least 10 reasons anyone would choose to develop programming skills:

• It rocks!
• The community is awesome!
• There is information about everything 2 clicks away.
• There are no idiot programmers.
• The salary is good.
• Beer, junk food and coffee are part of your diet plan.
• You are highly prized by your friends.
• Girls like nerds as much as nerds like girls.
• You will finally understand the binary jokes 😛
• You will be excused for creating Chaos. It’s part of the job description.

Happy hacking everyone!!!