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A comment on Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?.

Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by thom on Sunday August 05, 2018 @01:16PM (#17692309)
As a gentle satire of a much-hated London-based design company we were working with during a project for a major brand, I added something called 'disco mode' to the customer's site if you crafted the correct query string. It progressively added more and more random jQuery effects to the page on a timer, while the customer's logo jumped to a beat.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by zuck9 on Sunday August 05, 2018 @01:40PM (#17692448)
That's an Easter egg.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by hjorthjort on Sunday August 05, 2018 @01:19PM (#17692326)
How did you get that past code review?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by thom on Sunday August 05, 2018 @02:48PM (#17692798)
It's cute that you think every company, even the kind that did brochureware sites for brands more than 10 years ago, does code review.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by svnsets on Sunday August 05, 2018 @11:40PM (#17694962)
Yeah there are plenty of companies that don't do code reviews still to this day. I worked for an ad agency for a bit and we were still using SVN (afaik they are still using SVN for many projects today). Everyone would just push code straight to trunk with no review process.

I created a cool little easer egg where if you clicked in the bottom left corner of the browser window and dragged in a circle, the site would flip upside down. A coworker and I also photoshopped some of the client's imagery that was used on the site and hosted it on another domain. If you typed a variation of the Konami code while on the site, the images would be replaced with our meme-ified versions of their imagery. Even if we had a code review process, none of my coworkers would have even noticed that little bit of extra code in the mess of jQuery spaghetti that was their codebase.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by ada1981 on Sunday August 05, 2018 @06:13PM (#17693843)
It’s cute that you think it’s cute.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by pc86 on Monday August 06, 2018 @10:36AM (#17697931)
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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