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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. ASCII: a language? by jpu8086 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What has raised eyebrows at Radical is the fact that the message is in ASCII code -- a computer language in which numbers are used to represent letters "

    Thanks Joanne Blain. I never knew. One more thing added to my resume. Just the edge I needed in tumultuous times.

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    cmdrTaco for president '04
    michael for oval office intern summer '05
  2. 72 101 32 104 by skinfitz · · Score: 5, Funny

    72 101 32 72 101 33

    1. Re:72 101 32 104 by Doom+Ihl'+Varia · · Score: 5, Funny

      What kind of geeks are you people? These are not valid strings! You forgot a terminating NULL (00)!

  3. Re:should be easy enough... by Chelloveck · · Score: 5, Funny

    But what kind of weenie programmer would use decimal for cryin' out loud? Hex, baby, hex!

    Oh well, at least the billboard didn't start with "Dim msg As String".

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    Chelloveck
    I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
  4. 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...

  5. 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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  6. Should have made it const. by Stele · · Score: 5, Funny

    There should have been a const in front. Otherwise someone could have come along and changed the 72 to a 74!