This is the shirt I wear when I interview hackers (ignore fake prices, not an ad)(cafepress.com)

This is the shirt I wear when I interview hackers (ignore fake prices, not an ad)

http://www.cafepress.com/canreadthis.172171177

10 comments

fiaz18 anni fa

Since I haven't the slightest inkling what the numbers mean...to what does it refer?

I'm guessing I wouldn't get hired...

;)

[deleted]18 anni fa

Remmy18 anni fa

For those wondering, it says, "If you can read this, you're hired."

Tygerdave18 anni fa

Well.... "If you can read this, you're hired.(Null)" You might want to pad that out with spaces or make it "you are" so people don't think your name is Null or that the Null is the starting salary. At least it's not EBCDIC.

tb18 anni fa

Uh, null is used to terminate strings in C...

Tygerdave18 anni fa

So your premise is that this isn't just text and the entire shirt is a string? I think I win this one. Although, if you can make a whole shirt out of just one string then I will concede the point.

run4yourlives18 anni fa

Let's hope you're never hiring a secretary...

jcromartie18 anni fa

That's way too much to do in my head...

Does the interviewee get to hack together a script to decode it?

sanj18 anni fa

It's more than that. It is a waste of time to do in your head.

I like the idea of a minimal test to have them write a "decrypt" in their language of choice to figure it out.

thorax18 anni fa

Heh, it's not required for them to solve it. Just they get a lucky shortcut if they happened to do so.

dejb18 anni fa

I think it says 'only savants should apply, idiots are welcome'.

tb18 anni fa

4E6F7720796F752063616E2774206869726520616E796F6E652077686F207265616473206E6577732E79632C2064756D6D792100

Xichekolas18 anni fa

Sure he can... we'd all qualify anyway!

jimbob18 anni fa

50 72657465 6E74696f 75732063 756E7473

thorax18 anni fa

Actually, I have an interview story about one of the words you have in this particular text.

By the way, the shirt wasn't a requirement for the job. It was just an added way to bypass the interviews a bit if they happened to decode it easily.

LogicHoleFlaw18 anni fa

Yes, but does it support Unicode?

bsaunder18 anni fa

457863656c6c656e742100

Wesmax2718 anni fa

how much is it really?