All Russian programmers celebrate their professional holiday on September 13. In fact, this date, marked on the 256th day of the year, they chose themselves. This number is not accidental: it equals 28. This is the number of values that can be held by one eight-bit byte.
Programmers were and still are unusual and mysterious individuals. They are the favorite characters of funny stories and can be compared to American Polish jokes.
It is believed that programmers are reserved, unsociable, afraid of women and think only about computers. However, not all of these rumors are true. Many of them are just a myth...
