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Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by mixermachine »

TrianguloY wrote: post #7

If you want to test the isUserAGoat and isUserAMonkey on you own device, I published this small app that does just that: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy... Maybe I can add these other easter eggs...

On my device with Android 15 I can't install your app. Google enforces a minimum compielSdk now. Maybe you can upgrade it in your build :)?

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by riffraff »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #18
Agentlien wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I found it surprising at first I don't think it should be. Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.

> Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be. Hint: it was never big outside of the USA. If anything, Internet and the Hollywood reboots is the way most people outside of the USA learnt about it. Also try to find Europe in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Star_Tre...

Are you sure?

I'm Italian and we had Star Trek (all the films, all the shows, many of the books), and apparently the Star Trek Italian Club[0] was funded in 1982. I think Spock and Kirk were quite familiar to most people, and for sure as a nerd in the '00s everybody understood the joke of showing Bill Gates as a Borg on Slashdot.

[0] https://stic.it/

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by lynx97 »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #18
Agentlien wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I found it surprising at first I don't think it should be. Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.

> Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be. Hint: it was never big outside of the USA. If anything, Internet and the Hollywood reboots is the way most people outside of the USA learnt about it. Also try to find Europe in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Star_Tre...

> Hint: it was never big outside of the USA.

Really? I must have grown up in an alternative universe. Star Trek TOS and TNG were aired on our local TV station in the 80s and 90s, IIRC even in the afternoon. I would be extremely surprised if I'd meet a 30+ person who grew up here (European country) and didn't know Star Trek.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by pavlov »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #18
Agentlien wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I found it surprising at first I don't think it should be. Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.

> Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be. Hint: it was never big outside of the USA. If anything, Internet and the Hollywood reboots is the way most people outside of the USA learnt about it. Also try to find Europe in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Star_Tre...

That’s just not true.

Both TOS and TNG aired in various European countries.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by kallistisoft »

la_oveja wrote: post #10
dylan604 wrote: post #2

How is someone writing an article about Android source code node nerdy enough to know what a Tricoder is? I don’t buy it

im 30 yo and i didnt know what a tricoder was

I'm sorry... please take this adorable tribble as a consolation!

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by ramon156 »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #9
londons_explore wrote: post #8

Notice how pretty much none of these are added in the last 10 years? Android's become 'more mature' - ie. Boring, and the joke to code ratio is dropping rapidly.

Good, I hate ‘funny’ code. Just get to the point, I’m not here for someone’s notionally hilarious inside joke from 18 years ago.

Live a little. When you've passed away, was all the seriousness paid off?

That said, funny code should still work

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by kriro »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #18
Agentlien wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I found it surprising at first I don't think it should be. Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.

> Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be. Hint: it was never big outside of the USA. If anything, Internet and the Hollywood reboots is the way most people outside of the USA learnt about it. Also try to find Europe in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Star_Tre...

Very big in Germany imo. I came back from school and always watched back to back TNG and MacGyver. TNG and DS9 were big and aired nationally. My father grew up with Kirk & Spock and most people who were children in that generation and had access to a TV know the show, because there was not much else on TV. He's not a nerd at all :)

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

dylan604 wrote: post #2

How is someone writing an article about Android source code node nerdy enough to know what a Tricoder is? I don’t buy it

My fellow old person, Deep Space Nine came out 32 years ago. It's not something the nerds of today need to know. All these great sources of nerd allusions will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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