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.
"Now Hiring"
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ascii code. nice. i especially love the null character at the end.
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Considering EA's disdain for quality assurance (see: Battlefield 2 series) it would have been more apropos of them to forget the null character.
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WTF are you talking about?
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Although EA has been criticized lately Chris and nongeek, they remain a gaming giant only enveloping more companies as time passes. Their quality still remains high for company of their sheer size though.
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This is neither here nor there, but that billboard is at least a year or two old. I live in Vancouver, and have a vague recollection of when it came out.
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Akiro : not critisizing EA (great games!), but just not understanding a word (or null caracter) of this whole post ;)
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didnt google have a billboard like those too
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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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But it's not l33t, it's ascii
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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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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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So many EA plants in here I feel like I'm in a fracken jungle. :P
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