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juskrey 14y ago
No offence. (and also using your excellent service) But. My statistical background have always questioned me, are these guys, who are posting rebuses on job pages are actually searching for rebus solvers or need their job done? Or did they ever conduct a practical coding experiment with applicants who love rebuses and who dont..
- npcomplete 14y ago
  (I work for Balanced) Just a simple thing to keep bots and Nigerian princess promising giant riches for small exchange of name/address/ssn/bank account/horoscope off. Also, we have explicit emails from people who decoded and it and found it fun. So, yes, this was a data driven decision
  - jareau 14y ago
    it's also great for screening out recruiters :)
    - gsinkin 14y ago
      http://02varvara.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/01-how-about-no-bear.jpg http://02varvara.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/01-how-about-no...
  - 64bittechie 14y ago
    Decode this - 25599cbb64c13f5385d1a4b3acb946f27f350b9 I'll give you a billion dollars for it.
- argarg 14y ago
  It took me exactly 20 seconds to get the email address behind this ... and I'm not a professional rebus solver. I just happen to know how a base64 and hex encoded string looks like.
  - msoad 14y ago
    I thought it's a new way of securing email addresses. I didn't even understood this is a puzzle!
  - mahmoudimus 14y ago
    You gave it away :P
    - masonhensley 14y ago
      !gnihtyreve ton ,llew
      - juskrey 14y ago
        Oh no! Not another puzzle! ;)
  - lifeisstillgood 14y ago
    dammit - I thought I had decoded gibberish for 5 minutes there ! COuld not work out what I had done wrong. when you say 20 seconds did you reach for a bash command ? interested knowing which.
    - argarg 14y ago
      Nah I just googled for an online base64 decoder, then for a hex decoder.
      - lifeisstillgood 14y ago
        hah! so much for import base64!!
- j-m-o 14y ago
  I think there's probably a pretty high correlation between people who can solve them, and people who can get the job done (or quickly learn...). I wonder if the results of that study would show whether it makes any difference. :)
  - juskrey 14y ago
    Actually, there were some studies that showed absence of correlations of ability of solving puzzles with actual productivity. See "The Invisible Gorilla" book by Simons and Chabris. Very rewarding reading.
jjoos 14y ago
Nice post! Someone on my team just posted a similair post! http://blog.factlink.com/post/45861768695/yolo-spend-less-time-deploying-more-time-for http://blog.factlink.com/post/45861768695/yolo-spend-less-ti...

juskrey 14y ago

No offence. (and also using your excellent service) But. My statistical background have always questioned me, are these guys, who are posting rebuses on job pages are actually searching for rebus solvers or need their job done? Or did they ever conduct a practical coding experiment with applicants who love rebuses and who dont..

npcomplete 14y ago
(I work for Balanced) Just a simple thing to keep bots and Nigerian princess promising giant riches for small exchange of name/address/ssn/bank account/horoscope off. Also, we have explicit emails from people who decoded and it and found it fun. So, yes, this was a data driven decision
- jareau 14y ago
  it's also great for screening out recruiters :)
  - gsinkin 14y ago
    http://02varvara.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/01-how-about-no-bear.jpg http://02varvara.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/01-how-about-no...
- 64bittechie 14y ago
  Decode this - 25599cbb64c13f5385d1a4b3acb946f27f350b9 I'll give you a billion dollars for it.
argarg 14y ago
It took me exactly 20 seconds to get the email address behind this ... and I'm not a professional rebus solver. I just happen to know how a base64 and hex encoded string looks like.
- msoad 14y ago
  I thought it's a new way of securing email addresses. I didn't even understood this is a puzzle!
- mahmoudimus 14y ago
  You gave it away :P
  - masonhensley 14y ago
    !gnihtyreve ton ,llew
    - juskrey 14y ago
      Oh no! Not another puzzle! ;)
- lifeisstillgood 14y ago
  dammit - I thought I had decoded gibberish for 5 minutes there ! COuld not work out what I had done wrong. when you say 20 seconds did you reach for a bash command ? interested knowing which.
  - argarg 14y ago
    Nah I just googled for an online base64 decoder, then for a hex decoder.
    - lifeisstillgood 14y ago
      hah! so much for import base64!!
j-m-o 14y ago
I think there's probably a pretty high correlation between people who can solve them, and people who can get the job done (or quickly learn...). I wonder if the results of that study would show whether it makes any difference. :)
- juskrey 14y ago
  Actually, there were some studies that showed absence of correlations of ability of solving puzzles with actual productivity. See "The Invisible Gorilla" book by Simons and Chabris. Very rewarding reading.

jjoos 14y ago

Nice post! Someone on my team just posted a similair post! http://blog.factlink.com/post/45861768695/yolo-spend-less-time-deploying-more-time-for http://blog.factlink.com/post/45861768695/yolo-spend-less-ti...