
The number 256 (28) was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, a value well-known to programmers. 256 is also the highest power of two that is less than 365, the number of days in a common year.
Supravirtual SRL a software development company set in Oradea, Romania, so this day is ours too. The video is a pamflet, and it should be considered so. Also, this logic is very known to us:
A wife sends her programmer husband to the grocery store for a loaf of bread. On his way out she says "and if they have eggs, get a dozen". The programmer husband returns home with 12 loaves of bread.