Easter Eggs
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My school project was a calculator that could also interprete variables and derive functions. My teammate and I programm included a 3D rotating cube that was displayed full screen when calculating the power of 3 of any expression.
Surely, it can't really be considered an Easter egg if the user doesn't have to do anything more than use the application for what it was intended to find it??? :confused:
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Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Surely, it can't really be considered an Easter egg if the user doesn't have to do anything more than use the application for what it was intended to find it??? :confused:
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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeHow much time does a school project get used ? We did want it to be found out :-\
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Dunno, are you allowed to put a Sanity Clause in your EULA?
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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeI don't believe in no Sanity Clause . . . ;P Sorry . . someone had to . . .
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
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I hope you first pointed them at the spec, and sat back looking smug! :laugh:
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I think this is every corporate developers favorite pastime. Unfortunately, I rarely get to do it, due to a complete lack of valid specs... :sigh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Ever tried the Konami code on Code Project ?
Is it supposed to do more than expand all the messages and put a life bar of Bobs at the bottom?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Is it supposed to do more than expand all the messages and put a life bar of Bobs at the bottom?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
I think you missed the unicorn on the rainbow. Ok, just kidding, there was only something with infinite or very high rep points, IIRC.
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I don't believe in no Sanity Clause . . . ;P Sorry . . someone had to . . .
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
Indeed - I was hoping someone would. :thumbsup: Here's Marx, my favorite philosopher: Clickety[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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I think this is every corporate developers favorite pastime. Unfortunately, I rarely get to do it, due to a complete lack of valid specs... :sigh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
That's where the "back of an envelope" specification (or a note of a phone call in your day book) comes in really handy! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
Allowed? No idea... Never asked... Just did it. As long as it doesn't take too long to write (I spent about 5 minutes) and doesn't make the app insecure or unstable, why not? There's one in the system I wrote for our trading desk... It's a reference to "Sabra Price is Right" from SNL...
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I think this is every corporate developers favorite pastime. Unfortunately, I rarely get to do it, due to a complete lack of valid specs... :sigh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
Jacquers wrote:
Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs?
Probably but we have real work to do and can't afford to waste time on childish nonsense. We're paid to produce a line of business applications, not kiddie games.
Jacquers wrote:
We write business apps, so it's frowned upon.
Exactly. Never really saw why anyone would bother to waste time inserting "easter eggs".
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I think you missed the unicorn on the rainbow. Ok, just kidding, there was only something with infinite or very high rep points, IIRC.
Ah, yeah, I have forgotten how to do that. I thought it was member 0.
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
In my industry, the regulators will likely find it, flag it and then whoever put it there would be out of a job.
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
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We once wrote a system for a UK Police force - my boss asked their project manager what it should do if a user tried to perform a particular action - "It should tell them to bugger off" was the reply. A few weeks later we got a complaint when somebody tried to do the offending action - the screen cleared, and slowly filled with "BUGGER OFF" in very large characters, while the speaker played the Monty Python theme. I was very proud of this, as it was a DOS based system, and the display was done with ASCII graphics and the tune was played by an assembler program. We had to change it to a pop up saying "Unauthorised action"
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Back in the late 1960s - yes, I'm an old-timer - while working as the chief sysprog at a university I made major changes to the FORTRAN compiler used in IBM's 704x mainframe computers, adding features that were in later implementations of the language. Many of the features required that I keep tables within the compiler, and at various points I ran sanity checks to ensure that the tables were mutually consistent. When the sanity checks failed I failed the compile and issued the error message: ERROR 1164 - HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU GET HERE Only once in the several years that the enhanced compiler was in use did someone get the message, and it revealed a flaw in my code. (IIRC the bug was how I handled one-line DO loops.) On the subject of Easter Eggs, at one time long, long ago I maintained a list of Easter Egg sightings on the old WUARCHIVE server. Sadly, it's no longer in existence, having disappeared about five years ago (although much earlier I stopped maintaining the list of eggs because people stopped reporting them).
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
Here's one that I put in many moons ago. I had a form that required a finger pointer mouse cursor. I set up a counter so that every 17th time rolling over a particular label, the index finger would briefly change to the middle finger. The main tester in our group found it on the first day.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Here's one that I put in many moons ago. I had a form that required a finger pointer mouse cursor. I set up a counter so that every 17th time rolling over a particular label, the index finger would briefly change to the middle finger. The main tester in our group found it on the first day.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
I cycled thru questions from Monty Python at the end of an install wizward, with the answers provided during uninstall. Test group had fun. The cruising airspeed of an unladen european swallow is roughly 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour) using Strouhal's equation. Reference http://style.org/unladenswallow[^]
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
I did a sort of inadvertent Easter Egg once. The team I was on was doing a new version of a tax law database search workstation. The mainframe did the searching (this being the early 90's) and the workstation (PC) would maintain document coherency since this was the days of 2400 baud modems and we could not pull down the entire document at one time. When the user wanted to print the document, the workstation would determine what pieces were missing and download them. The original documents were typeset with features like multi-line curly braces. The current version of the workstation did not attempt to replicate these features. There were translation tables to convert print features between printers. This being the days predating common printer drivers. You needed a certain ESC sequence to print bold on an Epson impact printer versus the ESC sequences you needed to print bold on an HP LaserJet. The rich format documents downloaded were dumbed down when printed. HP had just released the LaserJet III and I discovered I could build a translation table to print the documents as they looked in book form. I had been experimenting with it when they came by saying they needed my current version for the production copy. Since that was the only version I had ready to go, I gave it to them. The software created an INI file where it stored your printer selection. From the software you could only select 1 for Epson and 2 for the generic HP LaserJet. If you hand edited the INI file to point to 3, you’d get the enhanced HP LaserJet III rendering. Which would give you a printout looking exactly like the original documents. During the development of the new, improved translation table, I learned that the management of the company I was working for, did not appreciate any independent thought on software development or design. It was one of those, "If I want your opinion, I'll tell you what it is" sort of places. So I never mentioned the enhanced capability, except to a few coworkers.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
