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Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by rfrey »

owebmaster wrote: post #109
rfrey wrote: post #98

I want to make replying to this thread a requirement for anybody I'm interviewing to hire. Also for anybody interviewing me. Truly a "2 kinds of people in this world" moment.

Why? Googlers adding jokes to APIs is about as funny as dad jokes at Christmas dinner.

So I know which of the 2 kinds of people in the world they are.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by AlotOfReading »

kxndnddn wrote: post #103
mordae wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlikely. Nothing is specced beyond 140 Celsius and many parts not beyond 80.

That statement is far too general and also factually wrong e.g. HT83C51 is specced for operating temperatures of 225 deg Celsius

That's still not a chip where an OS would have to handle motherboard temperatures of 200C, like the original point though. An 8051 is going to be running bare metal. TI has some stuff in the C2000 line that can run FreeRTOS at 200C, but the overwhelmingly vast majority of chips on the market are rated to 150C max.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by ROllerozxa »

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...

That would be quite fun, especially if you would have some thing that checks the DISALLOW_FUN policy. While doing a quick search on GitHub while reading the blog post to see if any Android apps with available source code were using it, all that came up were repositories containing code for the system Settings app locking away the version easter egg based on it. You might become the first third-party to use it!

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by ROllerozxa »

khernandezrt wrote: post #102

The Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating System: link isn't working :(

oops, no idea why the link I put there didn't work. Just corrected it, ended up linking to the page about the book on Chet Haase's website instead: https://www.chethaase.com/androids

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by lelandfe »

> a hidden column in the Chrome task manager that shows how many goats a browser process has teleported

Was very dissatisfied to find this no longer works. Here's an old post with a screenshot: https://www.100-geek.net/articles/goats_teleported?action=ar...

From 234 columns to 16, what a purge.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by shkkmo »

otras wrote: post #107
coxley wrote: post #90

For many years at FB, suffixing dangerous or really-deprecated tokens with `_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED` was the standard. Everyone[^1] was in on the joke. In the middle of the pandemic when ~50% of the workforce had started post-2020, it and other things became complaints for causing fear/uncertainty. We didn't do the best job on-boarding remote people and making them feel part of the culture at that time. [^1]…

I remember seeing this in React's __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED, and I've always enjoyed similar lighthearted and unwieldingly-long names. Unfortunately I see it too has fallen victim to defunnification: https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/28789

Fun names are OK, but only if they don't introduce ambiguity. In this case the change wasn't so much anti-fun as anti-ambiguity.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by ROllerozxa »

bertil wrote: post #46

The ` ` tag was an official part of early HTML standard, until teenagers showed up online and sanity prevailed. I suspect this could have been there to maintain compatibility with older webpages.

Yeah that's where the concept of the blink tag originates, the now deprecated HTML tag. But what's covered in the blog post refers specifically to a hidden (and AFAIK undocumented) blink tag that exists in the Android XML layout view system, which is an independent thing from the system WebView browser (that I assume probably still contains some code for blink tags, but that wouldn't be a surprising discovery). I don't know if there are any other built-in tags in Android views that really map to HTML tags otherwise.

Re: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

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Post by tuveson »

bertil wrote: post #46

The ` ` tag was an official part of early HTML standard, until teenagers showed up online and sanity prevailed. I suspect this could have been there to maintain compatibility with older webpages.

It actually seems like there’s another Easter egg if you google “blink tag”: https://www.google.com/search?q=blink+tag

(Doesn’t seem to trigger on iOS, but works in Chrome and Firefox on desktop)

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