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Old 03-27-2014, 05:00 PM   #1
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Fox News: "Hidden jokes exposed in Microsoft's code"


"Hidden jokes exposed in Microsoft's code"

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/03/...ntcmp=features

I always thought the code WAS the joke!

http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/art.../a97264_w1.jpg
 
Old 03-27-2014, 06:52 PM   #2
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Damn! They're on to us!! Run for the hills! Run! Run!!
 
Old 03-28-2014, 08:35 AM   #3
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Old 03-28-2014, 09:22 AM   #4
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Well that makes Microsoft more honest and emotionally secure than Oracle. Oracle scrubbed all the jokes and profanity out of the comments before then open-sourced, uh, something.

https://blogs.oracle.com/smarks/entr..._dirty_laundry

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Old 03-28-2014, 10:31 AM   #5
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I found BOZOSLIVEHERE in a .dll once.
 
  


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