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I agree with you. The dinosaur game in Chrome is the classic example; turned off because schools threatened to not buy Chromebooks if kids could play a game in

• joshstrange 1y ago
  That’s quite different from what we’re talking about though. That’s adding games or fun into your product whereas in this specific sub-thread we’re talking about naming code concepts (functions, classes, variables, enums, etc) funny things.
  • notpushkin 1y ago
    When you’re building an API, it is your product.
    • potatolicious 1y ago
      Not to mention even just this article exposed a just-for-fun API that ended up having a negative effect and had to be removed: `isUserAGoat` ended up allowing any caller to determine if a specific app is installed on the system, which is a privacy violation and allows fingerprinting against the user's consent. I get the desire to make the job more fun than just implementing a spec, but many of the things we work on are very important and very complex, with oodles of real-world consequences. That unfortunately means everything we do has to be well-considered and not off-the-cuff.
      • pineappletooth 1y ago
        Well it was not an issue back then since any app was able to query certain arbitrary specific apps (and yes some apps used to query a big list). They disabled the "fun" function in android 11 with the arrive of the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission.