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Google's Math Puzzle
An anonymous reader writes "Commuters in Cambridge, Mass., are scratching their heads over signs challenging passers-by to solve a complicated math problem. The mysterious banners are actually a job-recruiting pitch from Google."
NPR is clueless. That's why I am the one getting hired by Reebok! The URL was really 1828675309.com and let you to an OGG of Blink182 singing the standard Reebok commercial. At the end you were asked to go down to Foot Locker and buy a specific pair of shoes. On the bottom of the shoe was a keypad. Once you dialed 1829675309 you were connected with a Reebok HR rep and giving a job at a local Foot Locker.
Job as a Google engineer, sheesh. What a load of crap! Would you like whitener or a pair of extra soft socks with your shoes? Perhaps a Nuggets jersey?
Easy peasy japonesy
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
I hope that drivers who see that can still pay attention to the road. Regardless of whether they are trying to think about it or not.
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
Or just use Google!
Do you think that Google will get confused, after the link was put on slashdot? Just think, they're probably up to about 500 hits and climbing by now.
Then they're gonna wonder where all the applications are.
...you could just google for the answer:
7427466391
Now, is that a better or worse answer than figuring it out yourself?
Beep beep.
Screw the answer...I just want the job @ colorful Google!!!
The URL was really 1828675309.com
That's not resolving and I think I know why...
Jenny, I got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny, don't change your number
8675309 (8675309)
8675309 (8675309)
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
As you can imagine, we get many, many resumes every day, so we developed this little process to increase the signal to noise ratio.
Yes, that is, until somebody posted your link on Slashdot...
Quote: As you can imagine, we get many, many resumes every day, so we developed this little process to increase the signal to noise ratio. We apologize for taking so much of your time just to ask you to consider working with us.
:P
Well done, you have successfully increased the noise to signal ratio!
...and it just displays some guy's resume. Maybe 42 isn't the answer after all!
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
Just think, they're probably up to about 500 hits and climbing by now.
So long as Google's mail servers filter out messages with text such as "g00gl3 r0x0r555 h1r3 m3, f4gg0rzzz!" they've likely just hit double digits.
Trolling is a art,
yes, the answer...
Does Google not realize what these billboards are going to do? Think of the poor embattled commuters sitting in suburban to urban traffic clog.
Honking at each other.
Bitching on their cell phones about their wives while pissing off the person(s) behind them who are also on their cell phones bitching about the guy that is jabbering on his phone and not moving forward with traffic.
Bumping each other and causing just enough damage to their cars to NOT really want to risk an insurance claim but also enough to want to get it fixed before the neighbors think they drive a shitty car.
Flipping over and killing each other because one of them thought that he/she had to get to work about 30mph faster than everyone else, because that one person has a much busier day of meetings than everyone else on the highway.
Enter Google -- further frustrating drivers with friggin' math problems on billboards. What? You don't think people will look at them enough to be distracted and frustrated at learning that they're not really Google material?
I call bullshit. 'cause that bitch on the uncontested divorce for $299 billboard torments me every day. Not because I don't like my marriage or want a divorce. No -- she begs the question -- "Can you beat me in court if you want the dog and the 50" plasma TV? Eh, buddy?"
Fuck you lady. Fuck you and your uncontested divorce. And fuck Google for teasing me with a job that I probably will have never known existed if it weren't for people that are actually qualified to answer the math problem having posted the g'damned answers here and made feel stupid as shit.
I'd complain more, but this guy behind me in his gas guzzling SUV is honking at me to move forward one car length while we drive past an accident. Thank god for WiFi in the car. If he honks again, I'm threatening him with the Airsoft 9mm I have in the glove compartment.
IronChefMorimoto
I don't suppose the referrer field that says "slashdot.org" that all the browsers will passing out like bus tokens will cause any notice at google, eh?
Nah, they'd have to be pretty web-savvy to notice that.
Failed it, did you?
1. Sue IBM
2. ???
3. Profit!
If you have the answer to #2, please contact Darl McBride at SCO.com. We have an immediate opening for someone who can solve this riddle.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
That's just kind of clever thinking we're looking for. How does a corner office and $150K/year sound?
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
The site is going slow, so I've mirrored the answer here: 5966290435
Posting anonymous because I'm not karma farming.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
Damn you Tommy Tutone!!
References: I read slashdot.
I took the other route: paid an Indian PhD 50-cents to solve it for me. In case you call it cheating, that better reflects the (new) reality of the work world anyhow: Brains are a cheap global commodity. They should put up a people-skills test instead.
Table-ized A.I.
Remember last year?
Probably, this year's traffic
Same shape, but scaled up.
Get file with copy of prime numbers. ...all of them?
I know. Thats what you get when you miscopy the number into Mathematica. I'll get my coat.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
ROFL. Somebody please mod parent up. That's so funny.
Never use a $4 calculator when you can use a $1600 software package instead (and then make an invalid conclusion because it rounded off for you!).
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SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And here's why: The people who did the hard math to solve the problem--hey, they'll make great coders, welcome aboard.
/. article successfully got other people to do the work for us, and then took credit for it.
Those of us who googled it or read the
Welcome aboard, manager!
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
Totally. :)
employees interview themselves for YOUR company.
I saw that bill board in downtown Seattle. My immediate reaction was, "That's dumb... Why would anyone want the URL http://www.7427466391.com/ ?"
Add the digits, beeyotch!!! Those are the first four 10 digit segments of e that add up to 49. They're looking for the fifth. Dumbass. I'm only 8 years old and I figured that out in approximately .1415 nanoseconds.
Love, Will Hunting.
/. raising the noise to signal ratio since 1997
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.