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A Cover Letter in Brainfuck
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#13What's wrong with a text file? Notice how brainfuck is specified to work on text files, not on PNG files!
Can you embed a text file in the middle of a blog post?
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#14The first ever Brainfuck program whose source doesn't actually look bad.
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#15What's wrong with a text file? Notice how brainfuck is specified to work on text files, not on PNG files!
Author here - I found this old PDF in my gmail inbox, and have lost the source long ago.
I'll see if I can extract the text out of it.
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#16Brilliant, though shame it's regarding entry to the Israeli military.
Come on --that sort of political comment doesn't add anything constructive to the discussion.
If the word "Israeli" were omitted, I don't think anyone would have questioned if it were constructive. I don't know that the extra bit of specificity ruined it, for me, at least.
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#17The first ever Brainfuck program whose source doesn't actually look bad.
That problem has a generic solution:
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#18Brilliant, though shame it's regarding entry to the Israeli military.
Indeed, sad.
As a teenager in a country with conscription, you do what you can. Had I had a choice, this letter may have been targeted at Google.
For the record, I think conscription is a bad idea for many reasons.
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#19I have questions: Did the letter work? Program and interpreter and letter, but why not let us with X86 machines cut and paste. What did the program do?
Of course the letter worked in the technical sense.
In the business sense -
The letter was sent as a PDF to a contact I had, who promised to print it and hand it to the relevant recruiter. I never heard back from them, but I did get accepted somewhere much better, and I have good reasons to suspect there was a man-in-the-middle involved.
I'll try and extract the text from this PDF. Of course I lost the source years ago (_in a thunderstorm_, no less).
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you embed a text file in the middle of a blog post?
Well... yes. You just, literally, paste it there. You can even throw in a for monospace shock value.
The formatting is pretty important for understanding this document. Even
is just semantics and doesn't gurantee anything about presentation. Browsers just default to something monospace.