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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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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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Our development manager asked me to add a team photo of the ~300 people on the project as an Easter egg.
So if you end up using a specific search term in our global search box the team photo pops up 
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Link and instructions in today's CP insider email: "Press Alt+F4 to see something special!"
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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
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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[^]
Toto1107
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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.
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Cannot believe that this momentous news appears not to have been covered on here, but they are splitting up, for a bit, starting next year, perhaps.
Joey Fatone (no, I don't know either) has written them a message.
I found it humorous[^]
Edit: I wonder if the site will start to get more hits now I've posted a message with that subject. Keep it kid sister safe, there's gonna be a lot of them turning up here for a while and either getting very confused or very angry if the replies go the way I expect. And not many creatures get angrier than 1D fans when they think their beloved band is under attack.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I saw it on the BBC news yesterday, but figured that without Simon Cowell pushing them in everyone's faces they will be forgotten and back to flipping burgers by Christmas...
It's not as if they could sing, play instruments well, or write good songs after all...just another cardboard cut-out "band" for morons to moon over.
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They are also the most successful British pop act since The Beatles - makes me cry.
Anyway, I have a teenaged daughter and I am going to milk this darn cow till it looks like an anorexic horse in a famine.
veni bibi saltavi
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Another triumph of marketing over reality. 
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Surely not more successful than the Rolling Stones? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Joey Fatone - the most successful member of NSync after Justin Timberlake.
veni bibi saltavi
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Every boy band has a Fat one
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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LOL, I enjoyed that All the more knowing that if (big "if") the 1D lads ever do read it they'll be thinking; "that won't happen to us...."
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Now I can start my Spanish tribute band! If only I was Spanish and could sing At least I can be the fat one!
Hogan
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Joey Fatone... Joey Fatone... Uh...
Oh wait, I think I saw him on Robot Chicken in that Karate Kid parody...
"For the last time, my name is Pat (#*%&ing Morita"
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Possibly too easy, but I liked it...but then, I'm not good at these things...
C#
Clue 1: It's not C#
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Nope!
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Sorry, beyond me then 
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Liar! 
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I know, I know... VB
Oh bugger, too late
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C# -> D flat
OriginalGriff wrote: I'm not good at these things...
Deflated?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I would have been, if Nagy hadn't got it!
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