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A really quick followup to the "No Easter Eggs" story

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Man, it's just been the fall for running into old friends and colleagues.  In the past month alone, I've run into three different classmates from college, and co-workers from over the years.  Go figure that one out, I have NO idea why they all caught up in the past month, but it's been REALLY cool..

Today, I ran into the test lead for the Exchange IMAP and POP3 servers in Seattle Center (Daniel takes a class there every Saturday morning, so I've been there every Saturday for the past four or so years).

In yesterday's post, I mentioned the Exchange 5.5 IMAP Easter Egg.  Well, I mentioned the story to the test lead, and he (not surprisingly) felt bad that it fired inappropriately.  But he did tell me that Delilah was still around (for those of you who know the Easter Egg, you'll understand).

Anyway, I thought it was kinda funny :)  Serindipity can be so cool :)

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  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2005
    Maurits, it doesn't. But it's awfully hard to convince a customer that your developers haven't put in a back door if they can point to the easter egg and ask "But if they put in the easter egg without your knowledge, how can you KNOW that they haven't put in a back door?"
  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    October 25, 2005
    Forget about MS.
    Would any company allocate funds to introduce easter eggs in their application (so that the user can have some fun ...maybe once a year)? Mine defintely will not.
    So why should someone make a hue & cry if MS wants to do away with EE.
    Every company has quite a few consultants working on their projects which is a lot of billable man-hours. No company would want to waste it by doing some ridiculous EE. If the user really wants to have some fun, then why not use this ?
    http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/index.html


  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2005
    Putting an Easter Egg in a program is putting the programmer before the user. It's amateurish by definition.