Hello.
I always heard that nagas where have human half snake, but I recently learned that they are actually closer to dragons than snakes.
Hello.
I always heard that nagas where have human half snake, but I recently learned that they are actually closer to dragons than snakes.
The Suttas themselves are treasure enough for me. If I find an Easter egg, I think it will be by syncronicity.
I just tried the Konami Code to no avail. I give up.
If we donât find the Eggs by Easter Monday you should start randomly banning people⊠jk lol
In the commercial world, these (âEaster Eggsâ) are s/t hidden away in software products as a sort of expression of developer cleverness, a sort of inside joke. Also been known to list names of the developers in corporate situations where thatâs otherwise frowned on.
When i was working as ParcPlace Systems (âPPSâ - the Smalltalk-80 vendor in the 1980s-1990s), the lead crew stuck such a self-advertisement into a release once, but it got caught during alpha-testing, and didnât get out the door.
I would guess whatâs going on here now is (at least what used to be called) beta-testing, i.e. by a sampling of customers. Debugging done before the release here the other day being alpha-testing (by the developer and QA teams).
With any significant software system, itâs never completely bug-free. Release was allowed, as per the system used at PPS when I was in QA there when: 1) new functionality works; 2) older functionality still works; 3) no âshow-stoppersâ known.
The first 4 Easter Eggs have been found. We are still missing one with the hint: Who is Yodha? Sofar I have not seen anything that comes anywhere close. The PTS Dictionary entry is a genuine entry from the PTS Dictionary and is not a joke.
Following on from the Easter Egg thread, I will give a few hints here. The first one is not really a hint but a dead give-away because otherwise you would never find it. Easter Egg 1: Go to any page in pali in latin script and press ALT-M. Thatâs it. See what happens. This will be extremely exciting for some and very boring for others Explanation: In the beginning, áč was more widely available in many fontsets and hence became more widely used. When it came to usage on SuttaCentral, BhâŠ
@Sabbamitta found the second and third Easter Eggs! Well done! Here is your trophy Easter Egg 2: The Buddha's Words [Screenshot%20from%202018-02-19%2019-12-04] Well, he might have said that at some occasion. But maybe it was not recorded. ⊠Background: On Tuesday 6th February, myself and our whole Dev-team was glued to the screen to watch the live broadcast of Elon Muskâs Falcon Heavy Test Flight, which put his Tesla Roadster into orbit with Starman behind the wheel. It was one of tâŠ
And another for @Sabbamitta for finding this one! Easter Egg 3: Metta Sutta What more beautiful language to translate the Metta Sutta in than Sindarin. Sindarin was the Elvish language most commonly spoken in Middle-earth during in the Third Age, usually referred to as âElvenâ. In order for the Tengwar font to be loaded properly, go to https://suttacentral.net/kp9 and find the translation by Galadriel in the menu. [Screenshot%20from%202018-03-15%2005-23-06] It was the language of âŠ
And another for @sabbamitta, whose insomnia led her to do some midnight sleuthing and find 3 of the 5 Easter Eggs on the site. Easter Egg 4: Why do you read? [Screenshot%20from%202018-02-26%2019-31-13] When George Lucas met this Tibetan Buddhist rinpoche, he used him as the model for Yoda, the wise Jedi master in Star Wars . [yoda-rinpoche] This is one of the famous quotes from Yoda from the iconic scene where Yoda and the Jedi council consider young Anakin Skywalkerâs ââŠ
The PTS Dictionary entry is a genuine entry from the PTS Dictionary and is not a joke.
When I made my first reply in this thread
Following on from the Easter Egg thread, I will give a few hints here. The first one is not really a hint but a dead give-away because otherwise you would never find it. Easter Egg 1: Go to any page in pali in latin script and press ALT-M. Thatâs it. See what happens. This will be extremely exciting for some and very boring for others Explanation: In the beginning, áč was more widely available in many fontsets and hence became more widely used. When it came to usage on SuttaCentral, BhâŠ
I was unsure first if all the hints were pointing to one and the same Easter Egg or each one to another egg. Assuming the first option I tried to find some connection that links all the hints together, but when coming across the second egg it became clear to me that this cannot be the case.
As nobody sofar has managed to find the last Easter Egg, I will give another hint.
Hint 1: Who is Yodha?
Hint 2: Where on the new SC site can you find a list of people and the suttas they appear in?
Okay, Iâve made it much too easy now
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Now I know where it is but my phone wont let me go there
lol best scavenger hunt in which i have observed ever! Plus Buddhists as lol keystone cops scavengers! For easter bunny eggs! ahhh lol
one feels great affection for a species.
Works on my phone:
âŠwhat is a nunk? =D
Cross between an Nun and Monk, I think? Perhaps Ayya @vimalanyani could clarify
The link leads to here
There still seems to be some confusion about the persons in my doodles and about me. So let me clarify: This is how I depict monks: [Anuruddha] This is how I depict nuns: [Anuruddha] And this is me: [Anuruddha] So lets stop discussing gender and get back to discussing dhamma and doodles.
sadhu, sadhu, sadhu, & ty.
Yeah! @aconlan gets the for finding this one.
The names index wonât populate for me in Firefox or Chromium:
Thatâs bad. What if you do a refresh? Does the console say anything?
âŠwhat is a nunk? =D
A genderless monastic. In fact, we are all just monastics anyway.
Indeed, clicking on the DD link behind it explains it all.
The names index wonât populate for me in Firefox or Chromium:
Thatâs bad. What if you do a refresh? Does the console say anything?
For me it does exactly the same, but itâs on Chrome.
But - congrats, @aconlan, for finding this one! This night I had a good sleep instead of looking for Easter Eggsâwhich is probably much better for my health.
There are font errors that appear on the other indexes as well but on the names index there is a 404 for the en.json file in the /static_names/ folder:
it looks like it should be pointing to the /static_names-page/ instead. Like:
client/localization/elements/static_names-page/en.json
But - congrats, @aconlan, for finding this one! This night I had a good sleep instead of looking for Easter Eggsâwhich is probably much better for my health.
Thanks! Iâm glad you slept well