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(off-topic) Love the contact page [1] of this website. What are some other effective filters? [1] http://www.stephendiehl.com/pages/hire.html http://www.step

(off-topic) Love the contact page [1] of this website. What are some other effective filters? [1] http://www.stephendiehl.com/pages/hire.html http://www.stephendiehl.com/pages/hire.html

mjhea0 13y ago
set up an API endpoint for receiving post requests so that people could send a json payload with their contact info.
duggan 13y ago
Hah, clever. Bonus points if you don't need to run the code to figure it out (since the cipher is trivial and the ciphertext isn't particularly well obfuscated in the Haskell version).
- jmelloy 13y ago
  I wouldn't expect people with python to necessarily have numpy, though.
  - dagw 13y ago
    Perhaps that's part of the filter
- gohrt 13y ago
  Yeah, if one is going to use code as your contact info, and ake people stare at it, one ought to make it good code. After reading those weirdly-written snippets, I'm not comfortable with buying more code from the author.
  - rantanplan 13y ago
    I don't think that these specific snippets act as a demonstration of the code he is going to write, in case you hire him. Just saying.
- alanctgardner2 13y ago
  The best part is that it's still his name at a common domain. I didn't bother with the code, but you can pick the common letters and match the positions to be pretty confident. The hardest part is his middle initial. edit: To be more on-topic, Dwolla had a pretty challenge for their hackathon last year: http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/dwolla-etsy-join-up-for-nycs-first-ecommerce-hack-day/ http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/dwolla-etsy-join-up-for-ny...
  - brdrak 13y ago
    Funny, I also didn't need the code to translate the scrambled address. I knew his name so that right away gave me most of it: tufqifo.n.ejfim@hnbjm.dpn stephen.?.diehl@?????.??? since m=l in the name, assumed the same for domain, considering it's the most popular email service, gmail.com my first guess. since n=m in the domain name, I assumed the same for the middle initial, which gave away the whole thing.
    - alanctgardner2 13y ago
      That's what I said? edit: I realize it might now have been entirely clear, I was trying to be a bit discreet ;)
  - vacri 13y ago
    With the info you have, you can easily figure out the cipher and apply it to the middle initial. This being said, it still means a recruiter has to go to some effort to scan the code to find where the ciphertext is and examine it. I imagine webmaster@stephendiehl.com would also get to him.
- cynwoody 13y ago
  I've written plenty of Python but only played a little with Haskell (just in GHCI, to see what the excitement is about). Yet, looking at his two scripts, the Haskell was so transparent as to not need running, whereas the Python was opaque (probably because I don't use numpy).

(off-topic) Love the contact page [1] of this website. What are some other effective filters? [1] http://www.stephendiehl.com/pages/hire.html http://www.stephendiehl.com/pages/hire.html

mjhea0 13y ago

set up an API endpoint for receiving post requests so that people could send a json payload with their contact info.

duggan 13y ago

Hah, clever. Bonus points if you don't need to run the code to figure it out (since the cipher is trivial and the ciphertext isn't particularly well obfuscated in the Haskell version).

jmelloy 13y ago
I wouldn't expect people with python to necessarily have numpy, though.
- dagw 13y ago
  Perhaps that's part of the filter
gohrt 13y ago
Yeah, if one is going to use code as your contact info, and ake people stare at it, one ought to make it good code. After reading those weirdly-written snippets, I'm not comfortable with buying more code from the author.
- rantanplan 13y ago
  I don't think that these specific snippets act as a demonstration of the code he is going to write, in case you hire him. Just saying.
alanctgardner2 13y ago
The best part is that it's still his name at a common domain. I didn't bother with the code, but you can pick the common letters and match the positions to be pretty confident. The hardest part is his middle initial. edit: To be more on-topic, Dwolla had a pretty challenge for their hackathon last year: http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/dwolla-etsy-join-up-for-nycs-first-ecommerce-hack-day/ http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/dwolla-etsy-join-up-for-ny...
- brdrak 13y ago
  Funny, I also didn't need the code to translate the scrambled address. I knew his name so that right away gave me most of it: tufqifo.n.ejfim@hnbjm.dpn stephen.?.diehl@?????.??? since m=l in the name, assumed the same for domain, considering it's the most popular email service, gmail.com my first guess. since n=m in the domain name, I assumed the same for the middle initial, which gave away the whole thing.
  - alanctgardner2 13y ago
    That's what I said? edit: I realize it might now have been entirely clear, I was trying to be a bit discreet ;)
- vacri 13y ago
  With the info you have, you can easily figure out the cipher and apply it to the middle initial. This being said, it still means a recruiter has to go to some effort to scan the code to find where the ciphertext is and examine it. I imagine webmaster@stephendiehl.com would also get to him.
cynwoody 13y ago
I've written plenty of Python but only played a little with Haskell (just in GHCI, to see what the excitement is about). Yet, looking at his two scripts, the Haskell was so transparent as to not need running, whereas the Python was opaque (probably because I don't use numpy).