if(date == "09/13/2007") Engadget.Write("Happy Programmer's Day");

Quick: what's two to the eighth power? 256, of course, and if you knew the answer before you even had a chance to read it, we can say with some confidence that you're a nerd mathematician liar programmer. Programmer's Day is celebrated annually on the 256th day of the year, which happens to be today -- so reach over and give that special computer scientist in your life a big bear hug, flowers, chocolates, or a simple "thanks" for making Engadget (and pretty much everything else we care about) possible. If you're a programmer, grab another Red Bull and get back to work, playboy; we've got a list of bugs about a mile long and they're not fixing themselves.

[Matthew @ Sep 13th 2007 1:40PM]

Thanks Engadget's Programmers!!! :)

[blade417 @ Sep 13th 2007 1:44PM]

End If

[Raptor007 @ Sep 13th 2007 1:45PM]

}

[blade417 @ Sep 13th 2007 2:14PM]

dammit!!!

[JohnTitor @ Sep 13th 2007 2:30PM]

Java > C++
*runs away*

[Don Wilson @ Sep 13th 2007 2:34PM]

Just to set the record straight, the title of this article is accurate, in that if can have a following code of line without having { }.

And endif; will not work since you need a colon after the parenthesis to make it an if-called statement.

[Raptor007 @ Sep 13th 2007 3:13PM]

Yeah, my comment wasn't to say they needed any closing, just that "}" is how you should end an if block with more than one statement (rather than "end if"). :¬)

[Roceh @ Sep 13th 2007 1:47PM]

That date headline is locale dependant!

[Jon @ Sep 13th 2007 1:57PM]

It would only be date dependent if the target locale celebrated a leap year or some other 'holiday' that added or removed a date from their calendar.
Being hung over, and missing a day does not count.

[Raptor007 @ Sep 13th 2007 2:06PM]

No Jon, it's locale dependent because not everyone uses "MM/DD/YYYY". Heck, I'm in the US and I use "YYYY-MM-DD".

[Matt @ Sep 13th 2007 2:48PM]

That was my first thought as well, should be in ISO 8601 format.

[Kevlar @ Sep 13th 2007 3:07PM]

It should be a UNIX timestamp :P

In other words 1189710411.

[Matt @ Sep 13th 2007 3:38PM]

That only works for one second, not the whole day.

[Wesburl @ Sep 13th 2007 1:47PM]

{o,o}
|)__)
-”-”-
The O RLY Owl says:

H@ppy Pr0gr@mmers D@y!!

[E71 @ Sep 13th 2007 5:18PM]

NERRRRRRRRDDS! Oh wait, I too am a developer.

[Cristatus @ Sep 13th 2007 1:48PM]

I think we should celebrate programmers day by making the Engadget staff hack in a time zone control feature. I can never figure out what time something was posted if I haven't been on in a couple of hours.

This is coming from someone in CEST (Central European Summer Time [UTC +2).

A "beginners how-to" on timezones ;)

[Cristatus @ Sep 13th 2007 1:49PM]

Oops, forgoet to paste in the link:

http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/

[no_link @ Sep 13th 2007 3:49PM]

I think they should implement a javascript to convert dates automatically, as shown here:

http://javascript.codeislogic.com/convert-utc-dates-to-local-timezone-offset-automatically

[R1cebrner @ Sep 13th 2007 1:53PM]

10 print "thank you Programmers"
run

[Michael Riecken @ Sep 13th 2007 5:38PM]

GOTO 10

[White_Pheonix @ Sep 13th 2007 3:29PM]

20 GOTO 10

[Michael Riecken @ Sep 13th 2007 6:15PM]

Gads!

I've been debugged.

[pj.davis @ Sep 13th 2007 8:39PM]

Don't use GOTO statements, lest raptors eat you.

[Ashish @ Sep 14th 2007 1:57AM]

He's right...

http://xkcd.com/292/

[LJKelley @ Sep 13th 2007 1:58PM]

If I 'fix' the bug will it quit mating and producing more bugs?

[Darnell @ Sep 13th 2007 1:58PM]

Wow. I never knew. It seems everyone indeed has a day. I wonder when's mine...

[Andrew Jones @ Sep 13th 2007 2:04PM]

Incorrect assertion - every DOG has it's day. Every BODY gets 5 minutes of fame. Using the estimate of programming jobs in California alone - 86,700, the programming gods clearly require more than a single day of penance. BRING ME GIFTS OF RED BULL AND CAPTAIN MORGANS!

[Andir3.0 @ Sep 13th 2007 2:27PM]

Everyone knows it's Red Bull and Jagermeister

[Daniel @ Sep 13th 2007 4:42PM]

I thought it was 15 min of fame? Dang it, is it being cut just like social security?! Sign of the times.

[JD @ Sep 13th 2007 1:59PM]

#include
#include

int main(void, void)
{
cls(0);
printf("Stuf U all, Im not a fraGGin nErd");
wait(2000);
printf("Ok then I am");
}
return (0);

[Jonathan Keim @ Sep 13th 2007 2:06PM]

LOL!

[Raptor007 @ Sep 13th 2007 2:15PM]

Error: `void' must be the only parameter
Warning: No return value for `int main'
Error: Unexpected `return'



I'm not gonna mention the includes since I think Engadget probably stripped the carrots from your code, thinking them to be HTML tags.

[JD @ Sep 13th 2007 2:18PM]

LMAO just seeing who was the bigger geek, and buddy you just WON

[Raptor007 @ Sep 13th 2007 2:20PM]

(in best Napoleon Dynamite voice) Yessssssss!

[Andir3.0 @ Sep 13th 2007 2:26PM]

"LMAO just seeing who was the bigger geek, and buddy you just WON"

I guess I should be glad I didn't post the multi-threaded version of your app...

[oshean @ Sep 13th 2007 2:02PM]

48 61 70 70 79 20 32 35 36 21

[nitr0gen @ Sep 13th 2007 3:14PM]

Happy 256! to you too!!!!111

[Sandybanks @ Sep 13th 2007 2:06PM]

Thanks engadget!
From programmer to programmer ;)

[CapWKidd @ Sep 13th 2007 2:11PM]

Oh my, I knew the answer to that math equation before I read the answer (too easy)... then again I know all 4 numbering systems, like anyone should... and as a friend of mine likes to say:
"there are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that know binary, and those that do not" ... I think that was an exact quote ;)

[blade417 @ Sep 13th 2007 2:21PM]

I've been programming for 6 years now, and my fiance' still does not get that joke after I have explained it to her for a forgotten number of times.

[Andir3.0 @ Sep 13th 2007 2:28PM]

Well, keep telling her until you've told her sizeof(long) times!!

[cvuletich302 @ Sep 13th 2007 3:10PM]

How many people in can read hex if you and DEAD people can read hex?

[Fruition @ Sep 13th 2007 3:19PM]

@cvuletich302

Wouldn't be 57006 would it?

Both the binary joke and the hex riddle are t-shirts you can get from ThinkGeek. :P

[PavPanchekha @ Sep 13th 2007 4:31PM]

There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know trinary, those who don't, and those who confuse it with binary.

Or even further:
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know trinary, those who don't, those who confuse it with trinary, and those who won't shut the f*** up with their stupid jokes.

[CapWKidd @ Sep 13th 2007 4:50PM]

blade417, you started programming 6 years ago? I stopped, I think about 20 years ago :)! haha... Only really programmed in Basic, and Assembly. Anyone remember "BASM"? Yes, I programmed on the Atari... by the ways, anyone know any good Octal jokes? Probably aren't any ;)

Ok, here is an oldie but a goodie:
"If builders built building the way programmers program programs, the firs woodpecker to come along would destroy all of civilization" .... Of course, those that have actually created a conscript (yes program), know, that at best it works, never mind works well... that’s much harder to do...

[Cody Brocious @ Sep 13th 2007 5:00PM]

Andir:

sizeof(long) == 4/8 (depending on the compiler and architecture) -- i think you mean the upper bound of long...

[Cody Brocious @ Sep 13th 2007 5:00PM]

@CapWKid

Why do computer geeks celebrate Halloween on Christmas?

Because Oct 31 is equal to Dec 25.

[Andir3.0 @ Sep 13th 2007 5:37PM]

Yeah Cody... but it wouldn't have been as funny :)

[Moses @ Sep 13th 2007 5:46PM]

yeah 6 years ago, i'm only 23 years old

[Thomas @ Sep 13th 2007 2:23PM]

Guess my teacher's thats why my teacher was at school today...