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It makes me laugh now that Easter eggs were a thing. Can you imagine getting that past code review these days? And it makes you wonder, if those were the kind o

It makes me laugh now that Easter eggs were a thing. Can you imagine getting that past code review these days? And it makes you wonder, if those were the kind of things you could get included imagine how easy a inconspicuous privilege escalation bug would be to slip in.

bugmen0t 5y ago
Firefox has easter eggs AND visible credits. The former I won’t tell. The latter is about:credits.
Mayzie 5y ago
Every Android version has a unique easter egg (repeatedly tapping something in the Developer menu). It is still very much a thing, but a lot rarer.
eloisant 5y ago
Nah, Easter eggs can still totally be a thing. It's not necessarily something that a developer sneaks in alone, it can be something a whole team in agrees on. I guess they're less of a thing now because it's been done so much, and with Internet everyone is immediately aware of it, they're not as fun as in the past. Android for example had multiple easter eggs, when you go the phone information and tap multiple times on the version number you get an animation.
- yreg 5y ago
  In /r/teslamotors users often complain that the company spends too much effort on easter eggs.
  - lopis 5y ago
    If anything, Easter eggs became as pervasive as April's fools jokes and turning your logo rainbow during June. 37 years is a record, but an Easter egg shouldn't be something everyone knows and that is everywhere.
  - xiphias2 5y ago
    I’m sure that if the Tesla team could launch real full self driving instead of coding up the easter eggs, they would have done, but some people just don’t understand that it’s not the same amount of effort.
onion2k 5y ago
Can you imagine getting that past code review these days? I can, yes. Easter eggs aren't some clever thing that a developer sneakily included. They're just features that aren't documented. They go through planning, dev, QA, etc like everything else.
- criddell 5y ago
  I can't imagine the flight simulator in Excel went through planning and QA.
- DeathArrow 5y ago
  >They go through planning, dev, QA, etc like everything else. And the product owner agrees spending half of the sprint points on Easter eggs. :)
mcast 5y ago
I strongly recommend watching "Dave's Garage" on YouTube. He gives a pretty interesting insight in how code was built and easter eggs were added in his Windows NT days. He's also the same MSFT employee who created the task manager and ported the Pinball game onto Windows XP.
- notRobot 5y ago
  They have some great Reddit threads: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something... https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote_task_manager_and_i_just_remembered/ https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote... AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plummer_author_of_windows_task_manager/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plum...
jstanley 5y ago
I don't think a privilege escalation bug in Windows 1.0 would be of much value.
- ale42 5y ago
  Especially that there are no privileges to escalate...
blenderdt 5y ago
Have you already found your shark in your Opel/Vauxhall interior? Easter eggs are still a thing, in software and even in production cars.
shadowofneptune 5y ago
It was a problem even at the time, as Easter eggs took up a fair amount of memory on microcomputers. The famous WAIT6502,10 in Microsoft BASIC Easter egg would be removed by some vendors: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20220128-microsoft-commodore-basic-easter-egg/ https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20220128-microsoft-commodor... I'm not sure Microsoft did formal code review at the time, by the way. Windows was the first time its rather informal development practices became a liability.
mrob 5y ago
I think Easter eggs should still be included, but they should be listed in the "Easter Eggs" section of the documentation. Most people won't bother reading the documentation so the effect will be close enough.

bugmen0t 5y ago

Firefox has easter eggs AND visible credits. The former I won’t tell. The latter is about:credits.

Mayzie 5y ago

Every Android version has a unique easter egg (repeatedly tapping something in the Developer menu). It is still very much a thing, but a lot rarer.

eloisant 5y ago

Nah, Easter eggs can still totally be a thing. It's not necessarily something that a developer sneaks in alone, it can be something a whole team in agrees on. I guess they're less of a thing now because it's been done so much, and with Internet everyone is immediately aware of it, they're not as fun as in the past. Android for example had multiple easter eggs, when you go the phone information and tap multiple times on the version number you get an animation.

yreg 5y ago
In /r/teslamotors users often complain that the company spends too much effort on easter eggs.
- lopis 5y ago
  If anything, Easter eggs became as pervasive as April's fools jokes and turning your logo rainbow during June. 37 years is a record, but an Easter egg shouldn't be something everyone knows and that is everywhere.
- xiphias2 5y ago
  I’m sure that if the Tesla team could launch real full self driving instead of coding up the easter eggs, they would have done, but some people just don’t understand that it’s not the same amount of effort.

onion2k 5y ago

Can you imagine getting that past code review these days? I can, yes. Easter eggs aren't some clever thing that a developer sneakily included. They're just features that aren't documented. They go through planning, dev, QA, etc like everything else.

criddell 5y ago
I can't imagine the flight simulator in Excel went through planning and QA.
DeathArrow 5y ago
>They go through planning, dev, QA, etc like everything else. And the product owner agrees spending half of the sprint points on Easter eggs. :)

mcast 5y ago

I strongly recommend watching "Dave's Garage" on YouTube. He gives a pretty interesting insight in how code was built and easter eggs were added in his Windows NT days. He's also the same MSFT employee who created the task manager and ported the Pinball game onto Windows XP.

notRobot 5y ago
They have some great Reddit threads: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something... https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote_task_manager_and_i_just_remembered/ https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote... AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plummer_author_of_windows_task_manager/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plum...

jstanley 5y ago

I don't think a privilege escalation bug in Windows 1.0 would be of much value.

ale42 5y ago
Especially that there are no privileges to escalate...

blenderdt 5y ago

Have you already found your shark in your Opel/Vauxhall interior? Easter eggs are still a thing, in software and even in production cars.

shadowofneptune 5y ago

It was a problem even at the time, as Easter eggs took up a fair amount of memory on microcomputers. The famous WAIT6502,10 in Microsoft BASIC Easter egg would be removed by some vendors: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20220128-microsoft-commodore-basic-easter-egg/ https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20220128-microsoft-commodor... I'm not sure Microsoft did formal code review at the time, by the way. Windows was the first time its rather informal development practices became a liability.

mrob 5y ago

I think Easter eggs should still be included, but they should be listed in the "Easter Eggs" section of the documentation. Most people won't bother reading the documentation so the effect will be close enough.