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Jaruzel

> This industry started with a sense of humor and fun.

It did, then what the hell happened? :(

Like every other industry, the fun is all gone, and the bean-counters and moronic managers have taken control.

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The fun is somewhere within you. Search and you will find.

Specifically, by clicking the link, reading it, then clicking around some more.

The argument that everything got more complex and bugs are harder to find now, so fun is avoided, does seem convincing, but I believe it does not account for everything. For a philosophical take: the kind of positive effects that easter eggs have, such as joy at work, team cohesion, flimflam - they are not physically measurable. They are immaterial. And the managers who are interested in making a profitable product will be focused on material measures, since at the end of the day that is what seems to be whats important on the market. To put it briefly, I believe that the materialistic world-view inspired by natural sciences and inscribed into our economies is not able to deal with more abstract benefits such as fun.

Hmm, I'm guessing the bean-counters and moronic managers didn't like me calling them out?

Or perhaps there is more nuance to the problem, and you painting with such a broad brush is overly reductive?

The auditors started telling me that I couldn’t build Easter eggs into my systems if I wanted to pass and meet compliance requirements.

In the case of Microsoft, putting an easter egg in code is grounds for immediate termination.

But also black-hat hackers, spammers and all sorts of other nefarious sorts making a lot of the openness that was possible in the 80s and early 90s much less practical.

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