I work at a smallish (~150 people) tech company that is pretty heavy on the technical side - about half the employees are developers/engineers/it poeple etc.
As most of your probably don't know, this friday at 18:13:03 EST unix time (ie, number of seconds since jan 1, 1970) will read '1234567890' and so to celebrate we're having a little drinking party. This morning, the organizer sent around an email that he's also holding a coding contest - who could write a countdown timer (with particular formatting rules) using the least amount of code. Over the next few hours, it seemed as if everybody had stopped working and was trying to out-do each other - people were talking, discussing and coding with each other and there was more energy in the office than I've ever seen. I thought I had a good chance with a 65 character command line, but over the course of the day other groups managed to get theirs down to 50-odd chars, then 40-odd and finally down to 36.
I've worked at other tech companies, but I've never seen such geekery 😉
As most of your probably don't know, this friday at 18:13:03 EST unix time (ie, number of seconds since jan 1, 1970) will read '1234567890' and so to celebrate we're having a little drinking party. This morning, the organizer sent around an email that he's also holding a coding contest - who could write a countdown timer (with particular formatting rules) using the least amount of code. Over the next few hours, it seemed as if everybody had stopped working and was trying to out-do each other - people were talking, discussing and coding with each other and there was more energy in the office than I've ever seen. I thought I had a good chance with a 65 character command line, but over the course of the day other groups managed to get theirs down to 50-odd chars, then 40-odd and finally down to 36.
I've worked at other tech companies, but I've never seen such geekery 😉
