[Eikon]

Except that it increases software complexity, possibly bugs as well as security vulnerabilities.

I definitely don’t won’t this kind of “features” in software I use.

[neuronic]

Yep worked for a pretty large company and they had a (capable), high ranking dev guy who was prone to add easter eggs in the UI. Konami code would cause something to fly across the screen etc. The live product was taken down twice due to these easter eggs.

There are no more easter eggs.

[stavros]

How did the eggs cause the product to go down?

[Aeolun]

Sad times. If you never accidentally trigger these then who cares…

[fouric]

The amount of complexity, bugs, and security vulnerabilities in modern software is already at a staggering level purely due to non-easter-eggs. Not only will allowing the developers to occasionally have some fun help them to be more engaged (and produce higher-quality software as a result), but a well-implemented easter egg touches a highly localized portion of the system and won't introduce any of the above in the first place.

[black3r]

I miss the good times when security wasn't an important thing to always keep in mind because there weren't that many hackers and script kiddies.

[floam]

I don't won't you

[savolai]

I really appreciate the wuality of discussion here. Every time.

[mhd]

Happy developers are engaged and make fewer errors.