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Did you mean recursion?
- bmickler 17y agothat's witty.
- donaq 17y agoNice easter egg.
- J_McQuade 17y agoHow long before someone moans about it not performing tail call optimisation, do you reckon?
- apgwoz 17y agoUgh.. it doesn't do tail call optimization? What is this, Python? Scheme has had this for years and is actually required to conform to the spec! Get with it Google!
- DannoHung 17y agoWhat do you mean? Do you see a dozen stack frames? It's not embedded in 10 iFrames, is it?
- ewjordan 17y agoCall me crazy, but I just can't help but keep clicking that damn link, hoping to find the real Easter egg when I "blow the stack"... Only hit the first few magic numbers so far, but I'm kinda nervous about bombing Google with too many requests in a short period of time, I doubt they look kindly on that...ah well, better things to do with my time anyhow.
- katamole 17y agoThey might throw you the odd CAPTCHA but apart from that I doubt they'd do anything.
- snprbob86 17y agoWhat if the CAPTCHA reads "Did you mean recursion?"
- Periodic 17y agoI don't think you can blow the stack. They do Tail Recursion Optimization, meaning they don't maintain a stack of previous web pages since the information isn't required anymore.
- dugmartin 17y agoIf they would have iframed 10 search result pages embedded within themselves it would have even been cooler.
- geedee77 17y agoTouches like this make me like Google even though I'm a Microsoft man really.
- mziulu 17y agoAre the two incompatible?
- ssn 17y agoMore info here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408
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- csomar 17y agodid you mean http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408 ?
- ScottWhigham 17y agoPfft - why would people downvote this? Come on, people...
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- shizcakes 17y agoBecause it's obviously the same as the link 30 pixels away. Which also damages the "hrm... Oh!" factor of the original.
- riklomas 17y agoBecause it was only funny the first time
- wmeredith 17y agoYeah, when someone cracks a joke at a party and then someone says it again right after following a laugh, it doesn't always go so well.
- raintrees 17y agoMaybe the second poster just needed to be less complete... One of my high school buddies would do this (only once per audience, granted). I would tell a joke. People would laugh. Then he would start telling the same joke, trailing off when people started looking at him funny, ending with "Well, it was funny when HE told it!"
- katamole 17y agoI submitted this to reddit as opposed to HN thinking it was too low-brow / off-topic for here. I suppose I was wrong!
- _pius 17y agoI try to avoid taking stories from Reddit, but this merited an exception. Nice find!
- katamole 17y agoPure coincidence. I often look for definitions as a way of remembering certain keywords in text (sort of like taking mental notes). The submission on reddit now has over 1200 upvotes which is crazy: it isn't that funny. Not to flog a dead horse, but the quality of that site really has gone down over the last two years or so.
- meeech 17y agoit would be interesting to know how google manages all their little easter eggs.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoEaster Bunny Thanks for the downlinks I'll be here all day.
- lacker 17y agoEach team just manages the easter eggs in their own product, it's not like there is the Easter Egg Department which has goals for the quarter of x new easter eggs reaching y million people. So in this case it's the same team that handles all the "did you mean" stuff.
- messel 17y agohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/450906315/sizes/o/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/450906315/sizes/o/
- mynameishere 17y agoIt boggles my mind that anyone is impressed by such trivial things.
- matt1 17y agoWhy? It's clever and it symbolizes Google's bubbly, geeky corporate personality. If I had to decide between working at two otherwise equal companies, I'd happily choose the one that encourages this type of playfulfulness. Small things like this matter a lot.
- mynameishere 17y agoIt is not clever. It's an old, old joke. http://www.ehow.com/how_2049834_keep-idiot-busy.html http://www.ehow.com/how_2049834_keep-idiot-busy.html
- semiquaver 17y agoI bet you're a blast at parties.
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- Deadly_B 17y agoThanks for sharing. Great find.
- veerasundark 17y agonice thought.
- Pistos2 17y agogit branch --no-m 2>&1 | head -n 1
- ellyagg 17y agoAfter clicking on it a few times, it should say "did you mean 'stack overflow'?
- rwolf 17y agoSomeone took the time to make this joke, but it doesn't make the search engine work any better for me. I like it when I find easter eggs in video games. I don't like it when I find easter eggs in tools I use for work. edit: Since I'm yelling anyway, Google's highly-corporate, brand-spanning, massive April Fools jokes leave a bad taste in my mouth. This is also the most annoying thing about Wolfram Alpha; except with Alpha it's easier to find easter eggs than the data you wanted.
- bodhi 17y agoI like. I'd also be really impressed if this wasn't an intentional easter egg, but was an emergent property of the "did you mean" feature itself.