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EA Uses ASCII Billboard To Woo Rivals

Posted by simoniker on from the cheeky-so-and-so dept.

Lard writes "According to Canada.com, videogame maker Electronic Arts has posted a billboard using ASCII character codes in order to poach programmers away from rival Radical Entertainment's Vancouver offices - 'the billboard is only about 100 metres from [Radical's] head office' and reads 'now hiring' using ASCII, alongside an EA Canada logo. You can check out a better image of the billboard here ."

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  1. should be easy enough... by shaitand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any programmer of virtually any experience will know what it is when he sees it. As for non programmers, who cares?

  2. I've seen this before by Yuioup · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I once saw an ad (during the dot bomb era) when a company was trying to hire Unix sysadmins, and it had a very very long command with echos and pipes and if you could decipher it then you could read who you could contact for a job interview.
    Pretty clever I thought...

  3. Reminds me of an old Western Union trick by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Back in the days of telegraph, Western Union would get a lot of job applicants.

    In the waiting room for the job interview, there would be a clicking sound - the sound of a sender repeating over and over "If you can understand this, go through the unmarked door" in Morse.

    Folks who just sat there didn't get jobs as telegraph operators.

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    www.eFax.com are spammers