Best Job Post Ever?

December 7, 2006 11:11 PM

Best Job Post Ever?

ok, it would be even better if it was Ruby: job.apply(:name => 'joe coder', :skills => 'mad rubyist', :salary => '200_000') etc...
posted by rsanheim to MetaFilter-related at 11:11 PM (34 comments total)

Whoa, rot13 encoded?? Lemme fire up the cluster. That's some tough competition right there.



Cute.
posted by null terminated at 11:22 PM on December 7, 2006 [1 favorite]

Dude, I want a Dual Screen Monitor.
posted by knave at 1:41 AM on December 8, 2006

rottytooth ftw!
posted by grouse at 3:02 AM on December 8, 2006

I once saw a poster for a programming competition like that.

It was like

if(knowledge(cplusplus)==TRUE || knowledge(java)==TRUE || knowledge(visualbasic)==TRUE){
System.out.printlin("Enter our programming competition!);
}
posted by champthom at 3:43 AM on December 8, 2006

This is *enterprise* software! Surely you meant something more like....

apply(
    Employee(name = "joe coder", skills = (Skill("mad rubyist"),)),
    Job(requirements = {:Skill("mad rubyist") => true), salary = AnnualSalary(USD(80000.0)), location = Cities::NewYork::Midtown
    )
);

Kids these days think everything should be a member, god damn OOP.

I am a C++ programmer usually and the closest I've come to Ruby is Python.

def dec_rot13(ct):
    pt = "" // plain text
    for(c in ct) { pt.append(chr(asc(c) + 32)); }
    return pt

posted by public at 3:46 AM on December 8, 2006

Yeah I'm that bored :P Spot the hilariously glaring error in my rot13 decrypter.
posted by public at 3:50 AM on December 8, 2006

echo 'perqvgfvtugf' | tr a-z n-za-m
posted by RichardP at 3:51 AM on December 8, 2006

Oddly enough, Python has a rot13 decoder built-in without having to load any modules:

>>> "perqvgfvtugf".decode("rot13")
u'creditsights'
posted by grouse at 3:57 AM on December 8, 2006

I would consider applying, but there's no setter on Environment - you are stuck with that computer for life. And Lord help you if the company moves....
posted by SNACKeR at 5:10 AM on December 8, 2006 [1 favorite]

Because double-spaced and/or non-indented code makes Baby Jesus cry, I'll share the python snippet I use to format code snippets for Mefi (encoded using said snippet):

from cgi import escape

def format_for_mefi(str):
    str = escape(str)
    str = str.replace('\t', '    ')
    str = '<br />'.join(str.splitlines())
    str = '<pre>%s</pre>' % str
    return str

Then just type print format_for_mefi(r''{paste code here}'') and paste the returned text into Mefi's text box.
posted by boaz at 5:16 AM on December 8, 2006 [3 favorites]

Except, you know, put 3 quotes instead of 2 around the pasted code.
posted by boaz at 5:41 AM on December 8, 2006

I get two computers and I'm not even a nerd. Although getting slowly dragged into SQL & Python may yet do that *shudder*
posted by i_cola at 5:59 AM on December 8, 2006

public: "Yeah I'm that bored :P Spot the hilariously glaring error in my rot13 decrypter."

It's here: pt.append(chr(asc(c) + 32));

It doesn't do anything close to rot13. It just lowercases caps letters and totally borks lowercase letters. And anything else gets changed in a confusing and terrible way. "9" becomes "I". ";" becomes "[". Yeah, that's rot13.
posted by Plutor at 6:38 AM on December 8, 2006

Not only that, public, but 'append' isn't defined for str. Use the + operator instead. Also, there's no such thing as asc() ... you meant to say ord().
posted by dmd at 7:03 AM on December 8, 2006

MetaFilter: asc()ing you whether you take it in the ord().
posted by scrump at 7:09 AM on December 8, 2006

who would ever accept a job offer from a guy named rottytooth?

except, of course, a dentist.
posted by matteo at 7:20 AM on December 8, 2006

Job ads written in pseudocode remind me of Dice.com ads from 2001, and they send a strong signal of "trying too hard to be cool".
posted by mendel at 7:25 AM on December 8, 2006 [1 favorite]

plus, .net? Truly the language of Hacks (not 'hackers')
posted by delmoi at 7:32 AM on December 8, 2006

.NET isn't a language.
posted by bshort at 7:56 AM on December 8, 2006

MetaFilter: My dorky glasses are bigger than yours since 1999.
posted by NinjaTadpole at 8:06 AM on December 8, 2006

As someone who's not really a programming geek, but is a bit of a math geek, the best part was "payscale: At least e^11."
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:39 AM on December 8, 2006

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD I NEED A JOB"
20 GOTO 10
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:42 AM on December 8, 2006

Truly the development environment of people whose employers have migrated to .NET.
posted by cortex at 8:43 AM on December 8, 2006

I was going to write a similar job ad for a lawyer in legalese, but my eyes started to bleed after about three lines.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 9:02 AM on December 8, 2006

Hmmm, your previous experience will apparently never be used.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 9:12 AM on December 8, 2006

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posted by mattbucher at 10:01 AM on December 8, 2006

I will sacrifice a goat for the return of the <> tag.
posted by mattbucher at 10:03 AM on December 8, 2006

IMG!
posted by mattbucher at 10:03 AM on December 8, 2006

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posted by rottytooth at 10:29 AM on December 8, 2006

Metafilter: I will sacrifice a goat for the return of the img tag.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:38 AM on December 8, 2006

('I will sacrifice the IMG tag for the return of my goat').ToString();
posted by blue_beetle at 10:49 AM on December 8, 2006

I don't get out of bed for less than e^12.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 11:06 AM on December 8, 2006

I love you U S and A, too.
Fool.
posted by niles at 11:06 PM on December 8, 2006