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The funny thing is that with the old Leisure Suit Larry games that you could simply "brute force" it, and learn something.

Motivation is a strong desire, education be damned. :-)

Easter eggs were "par for the course" back in the day. It was a way for us to blow off some steam for the very long crunch. i.e. Our physics guy added a machine easter egg.

Context: The high score screen only allowed N characters. My last name of course had N+1 characters so I made the code detect it and append the last character. :-)

Harmless, but fun.

Years later, the younger brother of my best friend was doing QA for the company and was testing a port. He came across this easter egg and told his older brother that "I had hacked the game!"

He didn't realize I had worked on the original game and _wrote_ that easter egg. :-)

Easter Eggs, when they are small cosmetic things, are harmless.

Wow, the size of those home button icons look cluttered and hard to be precise.

The Meaning of Life can be summed up with 3 phrases:

* You have a relationship with _everything_, including yourself.
* Your primary purpose is to discovery how to "Be excellent to everything/everyone"
* Unconditional love is the highest form of this relationship

The 4 absolute laws of the universe:

* Law of Existence: Physical is Temporary, Spirit is Eternal
* Law of Hologram: All is One; One is All
* Law of Karma: You receive what you give
* Law of Absolutes: Aside from the firs 3, everything else is relative

i.e.
Scientists haven't discovered the 2 missing forces (yet): Strong-Galactic and Weak-Galactic
Scientists are ignorant of First Contact by 2024.

I found it be hit-or-miss.

Star Trek Continues is decent -- it embodies the spirit of TOS. They even got Marina Sirtis and Michael Dorn to play the voice of the computer.

But I agree about the others. Holy crap is "Starship Exeter: The Tressaurian Intersection" ever terrible!! i.e. Having Spock being replaced with a woman trying not to portray any emotion when her eyebrows give her away is god awful.

/Oblg.

Geek Hierarchy Chart

/Oblg. "Government: Terrorists who extorts its citizens to prevent another group of terrorists from taking over its job."

Dam straight! There needs to be a balance:

* Too much authority with too little accountability leads to abuse of power
* Too little authority with too much accountability leads to bureaucracy.

You curtail abuses of Authority by having Accountability

It will come up in your Comp. Sci. education.

If it doesn't you have really bad teachers, or a really bad school.

All good programmers should understand the basics of one-way-hashes.