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i highly doubt an IC could make something like this happen without approval from somebody. It would be a huge risk. Also relating to easter eggs, anecdotally I
by xp84 4y ago
i highly doubt an IC could make something like this happen without approval from somebody. It would be a huge risk.
Also relating to easter eggs, anecdotally I think there are far fewer of them in software these days for just that reason: when a developer puts in an easter egg, it's hard to prove categorically that its addition wouldn't have some unintended effect, and possibly very embarrassing to the company if a major issue was traced back to some joke added by a developer for lulz. Uncomfortable questions would be asked. Imagine if adding an easter egg to Windows ended up leading to the grounding of all flights, or caused a life support system to behave improperly. etc.
I know MS specifically banned easter eggs a long time ago on these grounds, I think it's a fireable offense but could be wrong.
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- bigiain 4y ago> i highly doubt an IC could make something like this happen without approval from somebody. It would be a huge risk. I'd bet at least beer money that this was some "IC" career 747 guy (or bunch of guys) who organised, planned, and authorised this without actual authority, because he was "a 747 guy" and he tendered his retirement 3 months ago and today was his last day. And a delivery pilot who was either in on it or was prepared to claim plausible deniability and that he was just following the autopilots pre-planned route, which he assumed was fully authorised. What's the huge risk? They're gonna fire him???