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by jackewiehose 2725 days ago
To me, your whole attitude to this matter is really annoying. I see you might be frustrated when people expect you to work for free but stupid easter eggs like this are the wrong answer. Or at least you have to communicate them. Like "don't use my software unless you've read and understood every line of code by yourself".

Just because you give away pizzas for free doesn't give you the right to poison some slices because people have to be reminded that nothing in live is free.
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AnthonBerg 2725 days ago
The proposed equivalence to poison does not hold and is beneath the standard of proper conversation.

There is perhaps equivalence to arbitrary and unusual pizza toppings on pizza given away for free, and people proceeding to base their livelihood on passing on those slices on without checking what’s on them (knowing that there is no process to determine the bounds of the realm from within which the pizza toppings may come).

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jackewiehose 2725 days ago
Yes, the analogy doesn't fully hold up. Change poison to hot chilli to make it more accurate?

My point is, you should never create bugs intentionally. And you never put easter eggs in libraries. WTF?! Changing random button captions can render an application useless. Thats just a bug, not an easter egg.

Put your easter eggs in an about dialog or something that doesn't break everything.

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AnthonBerg 2725 days ago
I would agree. I would contend that the topping here was worse than hot chili. Perhaps poo-flavored if you will pardon the scatological connotation.

I wouldn’t have put that easter egg in. But for me the main point is that the story brings the sense that I ought to steel my resolve to somehow build better and more formal processes and tools to bring clarity and oversight and guarantees to our currently ad-hoc collaborative code sharing and reuse.

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CJefferson 2724 days ago
Really? I would say the topping here is Christmas Stuffing, or Turkey. Something reasonable to put on a Pizza at Christmas as a fun idea, but which some people might not like.
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CJefferson 2725 days ago
Of course not. Deciding to switch to a special fun Christmas Pizza recipe however, seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, which many people would enjoy, and I'm sure I few would be annoyed by.
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