Questions tagged [easter-eggs]

2 questions
28
votes
7 answers

What arguments are there against easter eggs? Are there any arguments to even support easter eggs?

I'm a bit of a jester so the idea of an easter egg still appeals to me. I have added them in my code before but my group of friends has a running joke of using CTRL-FU to trigger the egg. Now I'm also a bit paranoid about performance so I like…
user7007
11
votes
4 answers

Easter eggs as IP protection in software

I work in embedded software, and for some reason, management wants to hide an Easter egg as means of IP protection. They call it a watermark, and since our software interact with the video preview feed (the image displayed on a screen before you…
Simon Bergot
  • 7,930
  • 3
  • 35
  • 54