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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon.
I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker 
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I once released a Tetris like game that could be launched with the correct key sequence from anywhere within the application. This went out to well over a hundred servers with 5 to 10 users at most of the installations.
I doubt anyone ever found it.
We also had a help icon on each screen that when clicked popped up a message saying help not implemented. I changed one of them to say RTFM. I know someone found that because they phoned up to complain. I argued this showed we should actually get around to writing the help some day.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Dunno, are you allowed to put a Sanity Clause in your EULA?
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I don't believe in no Sanity Clause . . . 
Sorry . . someone had to . . .
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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Indeed - I was hoping someone would. 
Here's Marx, my favorite philosopher: Clickety[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Security author Michel E. Kabay discussed security concerns in 2000, saying that software quality assurance requires that all code be tested, but it is not known if Easter eggs are tested. He said that because they tend to be held as programming secrets from the rest of the product testing process, a "logic bomb" could also bypass testing.
I'd say that depending on the access gained and information kept it would be dependant on how the easter egg works and what access can potentially be granted access to if the easter egg is exploited or something. Regarding your question if it is just something that is written funny or so forth it would probably not be a problem, but be safe if it is frowned upon
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Allowed?
No.
So, officially, we do not have any easter eggs in the application 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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We once had a VDT for one of the British Police Forces which contained a hidden Space Invaders clone, where the invaders were replaced with policemen, and the UFO with a police car.
They loved it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We once wrote a system for a UK Police force - my boss asked their project manager what it should do if a user tried to perform a particular action - "It should tell them to bugger off" was the reply.
A few weeks later we got a complaint when somebody tried to do the offending action - the screen cleared, and slowly filled with "BUGGER OFF" in very large characters, while the speaker played the Monty Python theme. I was very proud of this, as it was a DOS based system, and the display was done with ASCII graphics and the tune was played by an assembler program.
We had to change it to a pop up saying "Unauthorised action"
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I hope you first pointed them at the spec, and sat back looking smug! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think this is every corporate developers favorite pastime. Unfortunately, I rarely get to do it, due to a complete lack of valid specs... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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That's where the "back of an envelope" specification (or a note of a phone call in your day book) comes in really handy!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If there is no specification then you cannot break the specs and "anything goes".
I'd suggest to add Doom as a resource
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Back in the late 1960s - yes, I'm an old-timer - while working as the chief sysprog at a university I made major changes to the FORTRAN compiler used in IBM's 704x mainframe computers, adding features that were in later implementations of the language. Many of the features required that I keep tables within the compiler, and at various points I ran sanity checks to ensure that the tables were mutually consistent.
When the sanity checks failed I failed the compile and issued the error message:
ERROR 1164 - HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU GET HERE
Only once in the several years that the enhanced compiler was in use did someone get the message, and it revealed a flaw in my code. (IIRC the bug was how I handled one-line DO loops.)
On the subject of Easter Eggs, at one time long, long ago I maintained a list of Easter Egg sightings on the old WUARCHIVE server. Sadly, it's no longer in existence, having disappeared about five years ago (although much earlier I stopped maintaining the list of eggs because people stopped reporting them).
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This is a Leslie, but anyway ...
Google Image search for 'Atari Breakout' and ... see what happens. Turn down your speaker volume before that. (Only on Chrome, I guess).
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I created an Access(I shudder to think of the horrors I created with Access) application about 9 years ago that produced a catalogue for salesmen. The catalogue contained images prices and descriptions of products so that salesmen could generate adhoc catalogues for customers.
On the 100th creation of a catalogue, an image of Cliff Richard would pop up with the words "Congratulations!" under it.
The salesmen really liked it and like a small child asked to see it again which of course I refused to allow so every so often there would be great joy when a 100th catalogue was created.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Ever tried the Konami code on Code Project ?
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Is it supposed to do more than expand all the messages and put a life bar of Bobs at the bottom?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I think you missed the unicorn on the rainbow.
Ok, just kidding, there was only something with infinite or very high rep points, IIRC.
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Ah, yeah, I have forgotten how to do that. I thought it was member 0.
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My school project was a calculator that could also interprete variables and derive functions.
My teammate and I programm included a 3D rotating cube that was displayed full screen when calculating the power of 3 of any expression.
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Surely, it can't really be considered an Easter egg if the user doesn't have to do anything more than use the application for what it was intended to find it??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 25-Aug-15 6:30am.
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How much time does a school project get used ? We did want it to be found out 
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This window title is long lasting. I remember using it on Windows 95. When I was young and wild. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Allowed? No idea... Never asked... Just did it.
As long as it doesn't take too long to write (I spent about 5 minutes) and doesn't make the app insecure or unstable, why not?
There's one in the system I wrote for our trading desk... It's a reference to "Sabra Price is Right" from SNL...
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