A recruitment ad doesn’t have to be understood by everyone, just by those who are qualified for the position, right? Some ads can leave the rest of us scratching our heads, like this billboard* seeking computer geeks. Texturl has more l33t advertising aimed at very specific audiences. Link -via Metafilter
*In case you'd like to try figuring this out on your own, I put the translation in the comments.
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So many EA plants in here I feel like I'm in a fracken jungle. :P
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I used "l33t" because its in the title of the linked article. He covers several kinds of geek languages used in ads: dingbats, ascii, C+, math, etc.
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Because "13375p34k" is only useful for proving what a giant waste of space an individual is, perhaps?
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But it's not l33t, it's ascii
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in java, [0] can also be @^ aswell as null, so then it would read : now hiring at EACanada. if that makes more sense. even though [26] is the symbol for @ aswell. but thats just how i would read it...
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