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5iantlavalamps.com and Easter Eggs
Posted by simonw on Fri 21 Apr 2006 at 18:30
Received a one page text letter attached to an email today.
709120 bytes to convey a 1395 character message, and the email address of all the other recipients. To convey a message that could have been summarised in one sentence of plain old ASCII text.
500 fold bloat. Unless I can find a use for the scanned signature of a clinical biochemist. Well you never know I might need an extra identity some time.
In amongst the MS Word cruft, it looks like a failed
Google Bomb
for the
Giant Lava Lamp.
All your Google rank it seems belongs to errant Microsoft Employees.
Which ties nicely with the second rant - Easter Eggs. Like the Google bomb these look unprofessional, and speak of poor code review. And what is the point of embedding games so poor that they couldn't survive on their own?
The gnome-panel executable appears to have at least two Easter eggs, so now you know what the GNOME developers were doing when they could have been fighting the bloat that means that a desktop panel now requires 25MB of memory to run.
Whilst we are beating Microsoft on functionality, reliability, efficiency and security, couldn't we at least try and beat them at professionalism as well, it shouldn't be hard.
Will people think me a grump if I file bug reports against Easter eggs?
709120 bytes to convey a 1395 character message, and the email address of all the other recipients. To convey a message that could have been summarised in one sentence of plain old ASCII text.
500 fold bloat. Unless I can find a use for the scanned signature of a clinical biochemist. Well you never know I might need an extra identity some time.
In amongst the MS Word cruft, it looks like a failed
Google Bomb
for the
Giant Lava Lamp.
All your Google rank it seems belongs to errant Microsoft Employees.
Which ties nicely with the second rant - Easter Eggs. Like the Google bomb these look unprofessional, and speak of poor code review. And what is the point of embedding games so poor that they couldn't survive on their own?
The gnome-panel executable appears to have at least two Easter eggs, so now you know what the GNOME developers were doing when they could have been fighting the bloat that means that a desktop panel now requires 25MB of memory to run.
Whilst we are beating Microsoft on functionality, reliability, efficiency and security, couldn't we at least try and beat them at professionalism as well, it shouldn't be hard.
Will people think me a grump if I file bug reports against Easter eggs?
Comments on this Entry
i use debian by choice ;-) I agree with you. I can't fix it so i just have to muddle through and do the best I can to adapt. Easter eggs are a sign of many things. One of which is the SW that has it(the egg) does something _it_is_not_supposed_to_do.
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I agree with you. Easter Eggs shouldn't exist in free software...
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