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TF2 coconut-ass tweet
The coconut coffee bean jpg
so it went something like this:
Dev 1: Hey, there is this random egg file in here... lets remove that silly thing.
Dev 2: Yeah thats unused, nuke it.
Marketing: Brag about it.
Dev 1: Shit... fails to compile or package and we dont know why...
Dev 2: what changed?
Dev 1: We deleted the egg file... thats it!
Dev 2: Well put it back! 18kb is cheaper than days of troubleshooting through the spaghetti code.
Marketing: Our bad... eggs are good.
What actually happened:
Marketing 1: Those TF2 Coconut Memes sure are reposted a lot on programming subreddits. This is a demographic very interesting to our product.
Marketing 2: Yeah lets invent a similar situation for our product and hope it gets a similar loop of getting reposted every few weeks.
Perfect pic for some automatic tests. It is just that those test pics should not had been part of shipment..
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the green one? Man those things rock... but only crazy people spend that much on a grill.
Every time you install opera the price of eggs goes up.
I don’t get the appeal of this browser. Also, what’s their business model?
Data theft is the model
Browser ricing is the appeal
And people still somehow swear by it, even though other than basically RGB taking up CPU usage, it does nothing special.
You can tweak how much ram edge uses too, doesn't seem to work very well though... The limit is more like a suggestion
Operas ram and CPU limits are also pretty much just suggestions
being "relatable" is their marketing.
Browser ricing is the appeal
What does that mean?
It means people only download it because it "looks cool", because functionality wise it does nothing special.
And as pointed out, it's basically spyware/data theft.
My kids think it's a "gamer browser".
Well yes, that's how it's marketed
It's just chrome with a paint job. Basically every browser for the past decade is either Chromium (Chrome) or Firefox in a trenchcoat.
ladybird
“Ricing” is a term that car enthusiasts use to refer to visual modifications done in arguably poor taste. “Rice” is a backronym standing for “race-inspired cosmetic enhancement”. So, they’re saying the appeal to this browser is visual customization which makes little to no practical difference.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/s/A6RBTCzVMV
I actually didn't know the real etymology
Ty for the curiosity
Lets be real here. Data theft is pretty much all the browsers at this point. The only difference is which regime you want your data sold to.
Sunny side up by the looks of it
Gaming Browser 😈🥵
It's also predominantly chromium in a fancy suit, so if you are using it to get away from chrome, you are failing to get away from chrome.
When Google continues building a browser engine that makes it impossible to block ads, there is not a damn thing any of the chromium based browsers will be able to do to overcome that.
Using Google's javascript engine and rendering engine ensures your browser will die when Google wants it to, since those are the actual difficult parts to making a modern web browser.
They make most of their money off of high interest loans in Africa. The browser is just the cover.
I don’t get the appeal of this browser.
It comes with a free picture of a fried egg.
Gamer.
It's Chinese spyware. That's their business model.
Junior devs when the joke involving silly image that holds everything together gets reposted for the 100000th time…
(Coconut was first btw)
Was the coconut thing even real?
No
kinda hate how a company that runs predatory lending apps in Kenya, Nigeria and India has managed to maintain just a "quirky fun" image to so many people, NGL.
Seriously? I didn't know that.
It's already been reposted enough, now you're lazy ass piling on...
finally my computer can run a bit faster with those saved 18 kb
You have to mention the classic xkcd that shows what developers have to deal with from their users
As a developer of a B2C product I feel this in my bones. But it also means people care about the product. Nothing is worse than making a change and there is no pushback,
I am a simple man. I see XKCD. I upvote. I spend the next 2 hours randomly rereading various ones.
Haha cool egg, now delete the spyware
18kb well spent
Imagine all that space saved just for a fried egg. Classic Opera move.
you're the weirdest bot acount ive ever seen.
I got curious so I went and looked. For anyone curious, they had 1 comment 10 years ago when the account was created, then no activity until 4 days ago.
This was posted a month ago. Get better material.
You can tell it's been reposted 5 million times because of the color distortion
Easter eggs, literally
chromium but wholesome chungus 100
I'm not gonna trust anyone to build a browser if they see two full yolks in a pan and says "a fried egg."
Oh yeah, I forgot. Programmers can only count to 1.
That's a load-bearing fried egg. You can't just cut that out.
// egg DONT UNCOMMENT THE EGG
I was helping out a friend on his side hustle one summer and this was a project like a dozen people had messed with and added stuff to and the sheer number of comments saying
“don’t delete the empty line of code below this comment or it will break”
“Breaks if you uncomment this line”
“ I’m not getting paid enough to fix this but don’t optimize anything here or it will kill itself”
At that point, you just add a comment "For everyone that attempts to fix this code not believing the above warnings, add yourself to the tally once you fail: 0"
See what number it eventually gets to.
I was messing with something related to old references that were taking up too much memory and stumbled into some chaotic spaghetti and in my attempt to make sense and cleanup whatever was happening I broke half the code in that project because someone was just throwing shit at the wall till they stumbled into something barely functional.
What accursed language/framework was it where comments and empty lines are parsed/compiled?
The Language That Shall Not Be Named
Ah I was a bit vague and It’s been a few years but from what I remember there were a ton of lines of code just commended out so “breaks if you uncomment” was followed by some chunk of spaghetti commented out so if you tried to compile it would break. But I have no clue why the blank line caused stuff to break if deleted that project was full of people’s dirty spaghetti filled laundry.
We use pixel values as part of a hash algorithm
DO NOT THE EGG