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I wondered a lot when I saw the Unicoin April fool yesterday. Since, in my experience, development takes a great time.

Is it possible to have some information about the effort which this development required?

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It took 6-8 weeks.

(Jokes aside, it took a few weeks of work1 by balpha -- he will answer separately if he has time)

1 The spec is dated 10 March, 19:45

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A little known fact is that in the stack overflow code base, there are exactly:

  • 37 usages of the F-word
  • 37 usages of the S-word
  • 60 mentions of unicorns
  • one usage of "giant S"
  • one mention of ponies
  • 5 mentions of waffles

How many can you find in our publicly accessible files?

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    THIS. Was worth all of the April 1 madness.
    – user102937
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:11
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    This must be one of those 37 instances. (From here: meta.stackexchange.com/a/217031/169611)
    – Mysticial
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:13
  • congrats on your first reversal badge on meta!
    – djechlin
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:15
  • ... you're going to post all of these occurences for our viewing pleasure, right?
    – hichris123
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:16
  • Coding lessons shall be profferred at Central Park.
    – Caffeinated
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:20
  • SE has publicly accessible code? Linky plz!
    – Undo
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:24
  • @Undo That would kinda spoil the fun of "How many can you find" if all you have to do is Ctrl-F.
    – Geobits
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:25
  • @undo, think... Not all code is c#, not all files are code... :-)
    – Sklivvz
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:26
  • And how many mentions of waffles?
    – ninjalj
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:31
  • @Sklivvz And dev sites surely are easier to dig through! :P Found one already...
    – hichris123
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:36
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    @ninjalj 5 mentions of waffles
    – Sklivvz
    Apr 1, 2014 at 23:38
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    @Undo there is the formatUnicorn function in the javascript. Rather useful one, does string substitution. +1 would unicorn again.
    – Manishearth
    Apr 2, 2014 at 6:28
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    Uh, @Sklivvz, why does review.js create its own JSON function?
    – Manishearth
    Apr 2, 2014 at 6:37
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    @ShadowWizard Don't think of it as one day. Think of it as months and months of productivity wasted by clicking rocks.
    – balpha Staff
    Apr 2, 2014 at 13:10
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    I assume the f word is filly, and the s word is sire.
    – Pollyanna
    Apr 19, 2014 at 2:53

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