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Ask HN: What's the funniest thing you've done with code?
Well, I've been quite free in the last 24 hrs, and will be for the next 24. So, I'm thinking of pranks through programs [mmmmuuuuuuuaaahhhhhaahha...].
Give me some pranks!
- MonCalamari 12y ago#define true false
- caw 12y agoMy job as a student involved working in an IT office, and we had a policy of "always lock your screen". Those who didn't got creative pranks put on their computer. Only rules were no root level pranks and it had to be SFW. Some of them I can remember - Randomly eject CD drive. This was done in various formats like a background script running, aliased commands, etc. - Alias 2 commands to each other (e.g. switch ls and cd) - Switch key bindings - Wallpaper switching - Screensaver switching
- brickcap 12y agoI don't know if it's funny but I once added a "This image is not required" in the alt text of the image. The src pointed to a non existent image. Haven't seen anyone else laugh at this but myself :)
- Nib 12y agoI didn't really get the joke...
- brickcap 12y agoHa ha well okay. The alt text of the image is displayed only when the image can't be loaded. I set the src attribute to a non existent resource. So an image tag was used to show a text that the "image is not needed". Yeah I know not that good :) it is here if you want to see it in action http://brislink.github.io/specter/ http://brislink.github.io/specter/ Go all the way down on the page.
- stephancoral 12y agoI set up Nagios alerts to send a YO! to a very senior engineer anytime there was a warning
- jpetersonmn 12y agoI write a lot of little vb.net applications for troubleshooting/repairing software for our helpdesk. Sometimes if I'm writing something that only 1 specific person is going to use I'll do something like every 3 days set their homepage to that david hasslehoff speedo gif that zooms in on his crotch over and over. Totally inappropriate at work, but I get a chuckle out of it. Since it only happens every three days they haven't figured out what's causing it.
- canadaj 12y agoNot really a prank, but a while ago my group of friends thought that the smiley with a nose ( :^) ) was really weird and creepy in casual conversation (we never use smileys). So naturally I wrote a twitter bot that finds all normal smileys and adds the nose.