List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by TeMPOraL » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:31 PM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #58

Clippy is open source on Github - http://thebeebs.github.io/OfficeAssistant/

Actual source: https://github.com/thebeebs/OfficeAssistant.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Thriptic » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:31 PM UTC

tajen wrote: post #67

April fools I wanted the most: - NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities, - Water allowed on board of planes, - ISIS converting to Christianity, - Apple patenting the patent, - Snapchat releasing a payment system Note that April Fools is on December 28th in Spannish culture. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Comparable...

> NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities

I was thinking of something more along the lines of "NSA brings suit against NSA after it learns that tailored operations group was secretly spying on other divisions of the NSA".

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by dingaling » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:36 PM UTC

QANTAS to become QUANTAS, to end decades of orthographic confusion.

http://www.ausbt.com.au/australia-s-best-april-fools-day-avi...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by flurdy » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:37 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #286

flurdy wrote: post #278

Google Actual Cloud platform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp10_PygJ4o https://cloud.google.com/actual-cloud/

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:) You have to be alert with the my butt extension installed though. Only a few days ago I answered a stack overflow question where I added a link with the word cloud in it. Unfortunately the extension changed the URL when I edited the raw text. Luckily I realised quickly when I double checked if the link worked and it 404ed...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by jonesetc » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:38 PM UTC

martius wrote: post #129

Humble Bundle proposes the Humble Indie Ballyhoo: https://www.humblebundle.com/ballyhoo http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/115193038361/step-on-up-fo...

Looks like it will really take your money, but it all goes to the charity, no humble tip. I like it.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by jeditobe » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:38 PM UTC

ReactOS Foundation renounce claims to the logo ReactJS in exchange for investments by Facebook

http://habrahabr.ru/company/reactos/blog/254579/

As the saying goes, there would be a blessing ...

Some time ago, in the ReactOS Foundation, it was decided to exercise their right to protect their means of individualization, namely the registered trademark, trademark and logo (the wording depends on the jurisdiction of law enforcement). We were inspired by the successful experience of the project Gnome, which is to protect their brand from the encroachments of Groupon.

Recently, the lawyers hired by the Fund, sent to Facebook Ireland Limited warning about trademark infringement ReactOS. The fact that Facebook is developing a project ReactJS, whose logo resembles the logo ReactOS confusingly. Since over the long term has not followed any response letter, nor any appropriate action on the part of Facebook, lawyers fund full steam preparing a lawsuit against the social network. Suddenly came very late response to the complaint letter ... and what!

Facebook ReactOS Foundation offered to give up claims to ReactJS out of court in exchange for investments in the project of our operating system.

The volume and the specific conditions of the investment currently being discussed in the negotiations, but it is already clear that it is a sum equivalent to several million euros. For their part, representatives of Facebook made demands on what exactly should go money.

Is expected to develop client and server distributions based on ReactOS, a graphical shell which will be based on React.JS, then while all calculations and data processing will be carried out thanks to Node.js. It is obvious that Facebook is preparing to attack Google and Microsoft in the operating system market for tablets and handheld gadgets. It is worth noting that the social giant has long been known for its contribution to the opensource-motion: Apache Cassandra, Apache Hive, Apache Thrift, FQL, Hack, HipHop for PHP, Scribe, Open Compute Project.

Stay tuned for details of this epochal event will follow soon!

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by dingaling » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:39 PM UTC

monatron wrote: post #257

tajen wrote: post #67

April fools I wanted the most: - NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities, - Water allowed on board of planes, - ISIS converting to Christianity, - Apple patenting the patent, - Snapchat releasing a payment system Note that April Fools is on December 28th in Spannish culture. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Comparable...

Water isn't allowed on board planes? I usually bring an empty nalgene through security and then fill it in one of the many water fountains in the terminals. Works well!

Even metal Sigg bottles go through security fine, so long as you've shaken all the water out and keep the caps in your pocket.

Doesn't seem to matter if the bottles are visible or inside your bag.

Tested in: Canada, Ireland, USA, UK, mainland Europe.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by TeMPOraL » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:40 PM UTC

flurdy wrote: post #294

TeMPOraL wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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:) You have to be alert with the my butt extension installed though. Only a few days ago I answered a stack overflow question where I added a link with the word cloud in it. Unfortunately the extension changed the URL when I edited the raw text. Luckily I realised quickly when I double checked if the link worked and it 404ed...