Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "How One Linux MAN Easter Egg Caused Chaos" video.

  1. Easter eggs are normally something you have to use some specific action to trigger. Like one version of old MacOS from 1993 or so had a little breakout game hidden in the “About This Macintosh” info window, that you had to press some combination of keys to activate. This way, the “leetle joke” does not impede the normal functioning of the software in any way. In fact, it becomes something “only known to a select few” (that you can feel smug about).
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  2. The safest Easter eggs are the ones that will not appear in normal production use -- you have to explicitly invoke some (undocumented) function to trigger it. Like, for example, on particular festival days, if you were to click on the date (which would not normally respond to clicks), then this amusing but relevant animation will appear.
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  3.  @janglestick  Lessig’s Law says “the one who writes the code makes the rules”.
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  4. 3:24 Aaah, but why was that interpreted as “00∶30” rather than “12∶30”?
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  5.  @Proferk  That’s reinforcing my point, not refuting it.
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  6. I still think Kathy Burke’s finest moments were as part of “The Slobs” on Harry Enfield ...
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