Zhou Hongyi: Today is 1024 Programmers’ Day, but programmers must not be given a holiday.

Today is 1024 Programmers’ Day, a holiday for thousands of programmers. Zhou Hongyi, a programmer, posted a special post today to wish all programmers a happy holiday and showed off the holiday gifts prepared by the company.However, a note left by a colleague asked him, "Do programmers take holidays to save energy?" Zhou Hongyi said this was a good question.

He said that programmers often face various bugs and are highly nervous for a long time. On this holiday, I wish you all not to work overtime and that your code will be bug-free.

But he believes that Programmers' Day is the only holiday that cannot be taken off.

Like police officers, nurses, and firefighters, programmers are also a profession that protects safety. Safety is no small matter.

It is no exaggeration to say that if programmers take a day off, the world will also be down for a day. If hackers launch an attack on this day, key infrastructure such as finance, electricity, energy, and transportation will be down. What will happen to the world?

It will be pitch dark, which will affect everyone's ability to surf the Internet, order takeout, and take taxis.

Zhou Hongyi said: "We also have statistics. 360 Security Brain can intercept 1 million extortion attacks and 10 million mining attacks every day. Once security is lost, the consequences will be disastrous. So everyone should work hard and wait for the New Year's Day holiday."

It is reported that the reason for today's Programmer's Day is the number "1024", which is actually 2 raised to the tenth power. It is one of the basic units of measurement in binary counting and is a number that programmers deal with every day.

1024 is also a wonderful number (don’t think wrongly). In the digital world, 1024BYTE (byte) = 1KB, 1024KB = 1MB, 1024MB = 1GB and so on.

At the same time, 1024MB is 1GB, and 1GB is homophonic with level 1, which also means first-level.

Many major domestic Internet companies will hold some activities on this special day to commemorate the programmers who have made significant contributions to the company and the majority of netizens.