There's a substitution cipher at the end. Spoiler alert: zllh://ooo.kzghallgew.uge/yggvbgt http://www.shopittome.com/goodjob
this simple rot-8 approach feels too simple for a puzzle like this.
Job description written in Ruby
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#22Is the 'Stellar Entry-level' position for someone in this scenario? "Hey dood, can you write our unit tests for us and fix these shitty bugs while we go on a 5 hr beer lunch? Thx man you rock."
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#23Wouldn't work for this company. They clearly don't test their code.
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#24why don't the boolean methods have ?s in the names?
why did they put an english description too? either the ruby one is good or it isn't. make up your minds.
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#25I'm surprised no one has mentioned the bugs caused by unforeseen interaction of a) turning < and > into HTML entities and then b) stuffing them in a pre tag.
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#26Unsurprisingly, ubercool job ad is for a site that uses table layouts riddled with inline CSS.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It got them to the front page of Hacker News -- a "normal" ad would not have. I'm guessing that there are at least some of us that would look past (or not mind) the ad if the job looked good.
All that and they don't bother to mention salary. Seriously, they want someone "super-smart, motivated", blah, blah. They want to suck you dry so millions of women can shop better and for what in return? To piss away your super-smart, highly motivated existence programming Rails? Vision care? yeah, they do apparently have a health policy that through no fault of their own, you can't keep after they suck you dry. So w…
Just include a salary expectation with your resume and cover letter. Then if they follow up, you know they're willing to negotiate around that number. That's not so hard, right? Everyone knows if you're not a founder, you aren't getting stock that's worth working for peanuts.
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#28Someone really oughta code up a resume in Ruby and submit it. I think they wouldn't have any choice but to hire you.
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#29Wow. A company with the balls to outsource their HR and management to a Ruby script. Manfred Macx would be proud.
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