Programmer's Day

The 256th day was chosen because 256 is 2 to the 8th power, which is the number of values in a single byte of data. In addition, 256 represents the point at which an 8-bit byte rolls over. As a result, it is reminiscent of the days of 8-bit computing.

Typical celebrations of Programmer's Day include coding silly programs, playing around with old computers and behaving in a generally inane manner -- provided, of course, that for the rest of the year the programmer has been industrious and produced well-written, bug-free code.

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