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There is a time and place for humor. Important software is not one of them. When I run something on my machine I want it to do exactly what it is supposed to, n

by ayrx 12y ago

There is a time and place for humor. Important software is not one of them. When I run something on my machine I want it to do exactly what it is supposed to, nothing more and nothing less. You won't be laughing if $RANDOM_EASTER_EGG has a bug that allows for remote code execution.

TeMPOraL 12y ago
> There is a time and place for humor. Important software is not one of them. Thing is, everyone seems to think the place and time is everywhere but not here and now. Companies today tend to have inflated sense of importance and gloominess stemming from what I believe is a mistaken understanding of professionalism. > You won't be laughing if $RANDOM_EASTER_EGG has a bug that allows for remote code execution. Hell yes I'll be laughing, I always laugh from remote code execution bugs ;). Anyway, you can argue that for any piece of code. Sure, an easter egg increases the surface of attack... by 0.1% or something.
- mendort 12y ago
  Exactly. Anyone who objects to easter eggs because they may accidentally introduce vulnerabilities should be objecting much more strongly to features of the application that they don't need. If you want to know every aspect of a program, then you need to own the code and be brutal about stripping out features that you aren't currently using.
acuozzo 12y ago
> When I run something on my machine I want it to do exactly what it is supposed to, nothing more and nothing less. So you're running on seL4 right now? How's that going? Did you program the userspace yourself? I'm impressed.
walshemj 12y ago
You must be a real blast at company party's - lighten up a sense of humour is a requirement in this industry.
binarycrusader 12y ago
Strongly disagree; appropriate humour in "professional" software is just fine: $ man tunefs System Administration Commands tunefs(1M) NAME tunefs - tune an existing UFS file system ... NOTES You can tune a file-system, but you can't tune a fish.

by ayrx 12y ago

TeMPOraL 12y ago

> There is a time and place for humor. Important software is not one of them. Thing is, everyone seems to think the place and time is everywhere but not here and now. Companies today tend to have inflated sense of importance and gloominess stemming from what I believe is a mistaken understanding of professionalism. > You won't be laughing if $RANDOM_EASTER_EGG has a bug that allows for remote code execution. Hell yes I'll be laughing, I always laugh from remote code execution bugs ;). Anyway, you can argue that for any piece of code. Sure, an easter egg increases the surface of attack... by 0.1% or something.

mendort 12y ago
Exactly. Anyone who objects to easter eggs because they may accidentally introduce vulnerabilities should be objecting much more strongly to features of the application that they don't need. If you want to know every aspect of a program, then you need to own the code and be brutal about stripping out features that you aren't currently using.

acuozzo 12y ago

> When I run something on my machine I want it to do exactly what it is supposed to, nothing more and nothing less. So you're running on seL4 right now? How's that going? Did you program the userspace yourself? I'm impressed.

walshemj 12y ago

You must be a real blast at company party's - lighten up a sense of humour is a requirement in this industry.

binarycrusader 12y ago

Strongly disagree; appropriate humour in "professional" software is just fine: $ man tunefs System Administration Commands tunefs(1M) NAME tunefs - tune an existing UFS file system ... NOTES You can tune a file-system, but you can't tune a fish.