December 12, 2003
Best billboard ever

They even NUL-terminated the string.

[via Matt]

Posted December 12, 2003 02:52 PM in Funnies
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On December 12, 2003 03:30 PM incognito added:

They are even hiring!

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On December 12, 2003 03:44 PM Ben Langhinrichs added:

That is so cool! (It is a bit scary that I figured it out just by looking at it. I guess I need a life)

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On December 13, 2003 12:31 AM Steve Friedl added:

This is the first time in human history that a *billboard* has served as the "first interview".

Wow. EA Canada rocks.

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On December 13, 2003 04:17 AM David added:

Its just really cool advertising. I wish I could decode that by just looking at it. I wonder what they'll come up with next. That obviously shows that they also have good skills/a really good relationship in the advertising deptprogrammers dept.

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On December 13, 2003 07:36 AM NiceGuyUK added:

Almost as good as an ad that says "w3 w4nt m0r3 31337 g4m3z c0d3rz" :-)

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On December 13, 2003 02:32 PM ccm added:

unsigned short reply[] = { 0x0000, };

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On December 13, 2003 03:20 PM Steve Friedl added:

char msg[] = { 67, 111, 111, 108, 0 };

:-)

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On December 14, 2003 10:06 AM dave added:

Who'd want to work for a place that had such poor programmers?

- Willfully obscure way of expressing something obvious.

- A probable lack of 'static' (if msg has global scope, it needs a better name; if msg is auto, it's inefficient, unless perhaps the plan is to modify it at run time)

- A probably lack of 'const', see above reasoning.

- Dependence on US ASCII encoding

- Failure to use Unicode, only about 10 years after all right-thinking programmers should have got the point (ok, I suppose they could be using UTF-8 as a space-saving representation)


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On December 14, 2003 10:44 AM Aaron added:

Who would want to work for a company that hired several cinemas and sent all their employees out to watch a LOTR:ROTK screener???

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/14/014227.shtml?tid=186&tid=188&tid=199&tid=97

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On December 14, 2003 01:21 PM Steve Friedl added:

Um, dave, the array can't be /const/ unless they're *always* hiring - this doesn't seem like a company policy decision that one should make at complie time.

:-)

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On December 14, 2003 10:25 PM Mean Dean added:

I cheated ... think the'd still hire me?

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On December 16, 2003 10:43 AM paul added:

Dave,

You're the coolest.

Maybe this is a ploy to get all the bad programmers concentrated in one place, thus minimizing their harm to the world at large. Kind of like a nuclear waste dump.

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On December 18, 2003 09:21 AM bstd added:

Steve, you rock, man. I could have died of laughing just moments ago... ;-)

Greets

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On December 18, 2003 09:57 AM Doug Luce added:

That's pretty cool.

This is actually effective. Note the second to last paragraph:

http://doug.telerama.com/joegrossberg/

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On December 27, 2003 09:18 AM MTT-1000 added:

1 piss = 1/2 fucking
if we multiply the 2 sides of the equation we will have tantamount equation =>
1 piss = 1/2 fucking /*2 =>
2 pisses = 1 fucking


Nice Pissing :]

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On December 27, 2003 09:23 AM ? added:


alert("FUCK'EM ALL")

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