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Ask HN: What Easter Eggs Have You Written for Your $Dayjob
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Re: Ask HN: What Easter Eggs Have You Written for Your $Dayjob
#2As someone who works on B2B web apps, I can honestly say I've never been tempted to add Easter eggs. Is it that common outside gaming?
Re: Ask HN: What Easter Eggs Have You Written for Your $Dayjob
#3I have written many. From writing a long comment in a particularly ugly code with the starting letters spelling F* to substituting North Korea for 'The Glorious and Awesome Democratic People's Republic of Korea' for a particular operation. I thought it was catchy.
Re: Ask HN: What Easter Eggs Have You Written for Your $Dayjob
#4Man, who has time for something like that?
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#5When implementing a radar display, the central pixel has no radar data mapped to it, so usually people just pick something. It was almost no effort to have the pixel flash, reading its next value from a bit string every time it went round. It's so slow, seriously, no one will ever notice.
It spells out a message in morse. No, I'm not going to tell you what it it.
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#6I wrote an internal (and tiny) troubleshooting tool where if you pressed the "Support" button you'd just get a js alert saying "You're welcome!" :-)
Re: Ask HN: What Easter Eggs Have You Written for Your $Dayjob
#7As someone who works on B2B web apps, I can honestly say I've never been tempted to add Easter eggs. Is it that common outside gaming?
It was. Microsoft used to have some... uhm... overengineered easter eggs.
It's probably not common anymore due to trust and legal reasons.
Re: Ask HN: What Easter Eggs Have You Written for Your $Dayjob
#8Man, who has time for something like that?
lol who works 8 hours a day???? not me..
Re: Ask HN: What Easter Eggs Have You Written for Your $Dayjob
#9As someone who works on B2B web apps, I can honestly say I've never been tempted to add Easter eggs. Is it that common outside gaming?
It was. Microsoft used to have some... uhm... overengineered easter eggs. It's probably not common anymore due to trust and legal reasons.
There's a wiki page for them[1]. With one of the most famous probably being The Hall of Tortured Souls[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Microso...
Re: Ask HN: What Easter Eggs Have You Written for Your $Dayjob
#10one of my favorite easter eggs was if you accessed our web app using app.com/pirate/login (instead of en or another locale) -- things got mighty interesting, arggg matey!