Google is hiding I/O tickets in developer documentation images

http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio-build.html

by nolanbrown23 • 12 years ago

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Aqueous• 12 years ago

Ok, I followed a shortened link and it drops me into a fairly cool terminal simulator with a space MUD-style game in it. But it's kind of creepy to have the prompt print out as <my actual first name>@io

I know Google knows I'm logged in right now. I know that Google knows that I know that I'm logged in right now. Still, it feels weird.

lam• 12 years ago

That's because you're using Chrome?

rnirnber2• 12 years ago

where are you seeing the hiding I/O tickets?

mbreese• 12 years ago

It looks like they changed the image to remove the watermark. The actual code has already been claimed.

rnirnber2• 12 years ago

FML

msie3• 12 years ago

Argh, too late as usual.

sethammons• 12 years ago

It says I don't have valid credentials for the four or so I found. They all seem like the same text adventure.

msie3• 12 years ago

Same here. Is it because I'm not in the US?

brunolazzaro2• 12 years ago

Ditto. Not in the US also.

Nogwater• 12 years ago

I'm in the US and tried at least 10, all with failure.

bjonathan• 12 years ago

example image with code for the curious : https://cloudup.com/cwt9rS66Agu

suyash3• 12 years ago

what the game looks like: http://i.imgur.com/b1LVoG8.png

davnola• 12 years ago

    1. Start scraping all images from http://developer.android.com/training/ inside div.gc-documentation    
    2. Inspect manually
    3. Profit

Fun!

quaffapint• 12 years ago

There's the one in... http://developer.android.com/images/tools/as-buildvariants.p... ...but I've tried everything I can make of that awful font and can't seem to get the proper chars for the URL.

msie3• 12 years ago

First char is a 5.

eudoxus• 12 years ago

I have only come across the two, both on the link in the OP.

Has anyone found others?

brunolazzaro2• 12 years ago

It looks like they were hiding them in other places, such as old video annotations...

Source: https://twitter.com/jc4p/status/456881857481547776

andrewweiser• 12 years ago

Just found one. It's the "opportunity to purchase" a ticket to I/O. Registration code should arrive within 24-48 hours.

tostitos1979• 12 years ago

Darn ... I found four but none worked :(

bburky• 12 years ago

    $ find /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/docs/images -type f | sed 's_/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/docs/images_http://developer.android.com/images_' | wget -x -i -
    $ diff -r developer.android.com/images /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/docs/images
    Binary files developer.android.com/images/admin/device-admin-activate-prompt.png and /Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk/docs/images/admin/device-admin-activate-prompt.png differ
    [...]

Sadly, they're all gone.

suyash3• 12 years ago

What do you think Google is doing it that way? Do they want us all to read/spend more time in their developer docs examining the images?

suyash3• 12 years ago

Very clever approach by Google (I was hoping for a coding test though :), after getting the code (which is the URL), you will be directed to sign in to your Google Account and then would have to complete the Space Mercury Mission (Console Game) to win the Code for IO 2014. For the curious, this is what the game looks like: http://i.imgur.com/b1LVoG8.png

Google is hiding I/O tickets in developer documentation images

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