How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys

Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by juskrey on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @02:58PM (#5409377)

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..

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by argarg on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:07PM (#5409427)

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.

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by msoad on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:15PM (#5409494)

I thought it's a new way of securing email addresses. I didn't even understood this is a puzzle!

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:02PM (#5409823)

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.

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by solarkennedy on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:36PM (#5411869)

Here is some bash kinda:

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by mahmoudimus on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:47PM (#5411937)

You should apply. I'm looking for people like you :)

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by 64bittechie on Friday March 22, 2013 @01:50AM (#5421576)

[email protected]

I really wouldn't hire someone who wants to use grep to parse out html[1] :P

Then again, I would not like to work for a place where engineers don't understand this ;)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/366152

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by argarg on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:07PM (#5409874)

Nah I just googled for an online base64 decoder, then for a hex decoder.

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:21PM (#5410853)

hah!

so much for import base64!!

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by mahmoudimus on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:16PM (#5409497)

You gave it away :P

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by masonhensley on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:10PM (#5409896)

!gnihtyreve ton ,llew

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by juskrey on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @05:15PM (#5410386)

Oh no! Not another puzzle! ;)

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by j-m-o on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:11PM (#5409461)

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. :)

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by juskrey on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @05:18PM (#5410408)

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.

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by npcomplete on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:04PM (#5409412)

(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

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by 64bittechie on Friday March 22, 2013 @01:53AM (#5421586)

Decode this - 25599cbb64c13f5385d1a4b3acb946f27f350b9

I'll give you a billion dollars for it.

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by jareau on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:48PM (#5409711)

it's also great for screening out recruiters :)

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by gsinkin on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:07PM (#5409870)

http://02varvara.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/01-how-about-no...

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