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On top of that, there are no such things as happy programmers. Why didn't anyone point that out?

I love that this is the first comment.

    o = (function() {
            p = 'programmer';
            d = 'day';
            h = 'Happy';
            r =  Math.floor((Math.random()*10000));
            (r % 2 === 0)?ap="'s":ap="s'";
            return h + ' ' + p + ap + ' ' + d;
        });
    o();

awaits correction

fixed!

Incorrect. The apostrophe is only after the possessive if the thing it's owning is plural in addition to the possessive. Day is not plural.

That's the heritage of Soviet Union, where people of labor were the cornerstone of ideology. Consequently every profession got the day to celebrate. I haven't seen it in any other country.

It varies country by country, but I'm pretty sure you'll find various aspects of humanity being celebrated on specific days (women, father/mother, workers, and so on), sometimes even at the UN level (i.e. theoretically worldwide). The point is to get mainstream attention to the achievements and problems of specific and necessary roles which would otherwise be mostly overlooked.

In some cases the celebration is named after the activity (e.g. fighting cancer), but meaning is exactly the same -- would calling it "Programming Day" suit you better?

Programmers are awesome.

That's what Labor Day is for. It is a day to celebrate the contributions of all workers to the country.

Those days do exist, eg. Plumber's Day is April 25th.

They are taken about as seriously as Programmer's Day in most of the world (ie. not much, most people have no idea they exist, even people in that profession).

"The night I was born, all of the screens in the hospital went blue"

Surely in a time where Programmers' Day has any meaning, the status of village elders has somewhat passed.

Who was also the village idiot.

Timezones: a bane of any programmer's existence.

Null pointer referenced

Nobody would celebrate that. :D

Oh brother, just have a happy _programmers day_.

What are the odds!?

1:7 was my guess, but quick check from 1990 to 2200 shows it's much higher, in 60 out of 210 years it will be Friday on Programmers' Day, with all days occurring 29, 31, 30, 0, 60, 30 and 30 times for Monday through Sunday respectively.

New Year's Day would still be Day 1.

Yes.

I think you mean play C-S 1.6 specifically and drink rakia.

Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT(31) = DEC(25)