Comments on: Ha or no Ha

By: Maxo

Maxo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:26:18 +0000

For the record, I did in fact think they where funny. I didn’t get to the blog post until today, so I actually fell for it, but on April 1st I assumed pretty much everything outrageous by any measure to be a hoax. All should make this assumption that one very special holiday.

By: jk

jk — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:33:23 +0000

The unfunny part was that some people will believe it, and Apple gets the reputation of doing this kind of stuff.

It would have been funny if you had used a fictional company.

By: Toke Eskildsen

Toke Eskildsen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:57:03 +0000

@hm: I am flabbergasted by your uncanny ability to make such a precise assessment of my personal humour-boundaries by reading just a single comment on a blog. I am also in awe of your authority and trust you completely to decide where the line is. You are of course completely right.

Why, just last april 1. I killed our cat, to make the joke “Hey, girlfriend, our cat lies dead in the basement”… “April’s fool! It lies dead in the attic”. I lost my girlfriend soon after, but I never made the connection before now. Thank you!

I bow to your superiour insight and hide in shame of the new-found knowledge that I am a social misfit.

By: The wife

The wife — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:47:17 +0000

Wauw,- didn’t actually believe you, Mikkel, when you told me about all the fuz your story made… Guess the next world war will start on the internet…

Anyway Mikkel turned out to be the biggest april fool in our family when he ran out to see how bad the damage was on our car (after I told him somebody had tried to break into it)… You might not think that that’s fun – but then you haven’t seen our car: it’s really old and contains absolutely nothing of value! If somebody broke into it, they wouldn’t need to leave a scratch (and the doors are mostly not locked)…

Du er helt klart min yndlings aprilsnar!!! Kys!

By: kamstrup

kamstrup — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:09:09 +0000

hm: Actually a few years ago a friend called me (on april 1st) telling me that he was really ill and home alone and if I could come help him. Silly me packed candy and soda and took off for the rescue. Man I felt silly standing there, but we had a good time afterwards.

If you really want to hate me: A few years ago, when I was a student, I leaked the news that the Riemann Hypothesis had been proved by a professor at uni. People whose daily work where much affected by these news got really emotional. This only made them laugh that much more when the truth came out.

To me there is basically one rule for april 1st jokes: If you say explicitly that your claim is not a joke then it can not be a joke. All else goes.

Clearly this is not the global perception. I apologize to anyone who was profoundly offended, and not just hiding their shame behind anger. I propose that anyone of the latter kind get their act together and take revenge on me next April 1st.

By: hm

hm — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:20:15 +0000

@Toke: A sense of humour is knowing exactly which line not to cross and what is and is not okay to be played upon. Obviously you have none.

By: Toke Eskildsen

Toke Eskildsen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:34:31 +0000

So, what’s the message here, Rob? That we shouldn’t make fun of the good guys? And your message, hm and SW? That the issue is too serious to touch?

It’s called a sense of humor. It is more that laughing at clowns slipping on banana peels. Real humor grabs you and gives you something of value. On this one day of the year, we’re all allowed to be the jesters, pointing out the atrocities and the wonders of the world while making fun of the king.

Cherish it. Embrace it! Don’t spoil it by being sourpusses.

By: Someone

Someone — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:04:10 +0000

If this is what the people behind GNOME are like, and if this is their sense of humor, you’ve just blasted away one of many potential GNOME users to the Apple side.

(haha april fools!)

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:51:43 +0000

Apple have been heavily contributing to gcc roughly about *for ever*. They originated LLVM and are the main drivers behind all the LLVM infrastructure. There’s apple contributions all over our core infrastructure and have been for many years, they just don’t talk about it very much.

By: kamstrup

kamstrup — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:36:36 +0000

Two things.

1) I did not do this to slander the name of Apple. IMHO they do this perfectly fine them selves. They did some good and some bad things and they have to try a lot harder to become an esteemed open source contributor in my book.

2) In my background the hoax of the april fool’s joke does not have to be funny or obvious. In fact it should be the contrary. The funny thing is not the story you use to trick people, but the fact that you trick people. More like a game of minds than funny and absurd story.