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This is the shirt I wear when I interview hackers (ignore fake prices, not an ad)

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Since I haven't the slightest inkling what the numbers mean...to what does it refer?

I'm guessing I wouldn't get hired...

;)

For those wondering, it says, "If you can read this, you're hired."

Well.... "If you can read this, you're hired.(Null)" You might want to pad that out with spaces or make it "you are" so people don't think your name is Null or that the Null is the starting salary. At least it's not EBCDIC.

Uh, null is used to terminate strings in C...

So your premise is that this isn't just text and the entire shirt is a string? I think I win this one. Although, if you can make a whole shirt out of just one string then I will concede the point.

Let's hope you're never hiring a secretary...

That's way too much to do in my head...

Does the interviewee get to hack together a script to decode it?

It's more than that. It is a waste of time to do in your head.

I like the idea of a minimal test to have them write a "decrypt" in their language of choice to figure it out.

Heh, it's not required for them to solve it. Just they get a lucky shortcut if they happened to do so.

I think it says 'only savants should apply, idiots are welcome'.

4E6F7720796F752063616E2774206869726520616E796F6E652077686F207265616473206E6577732E79632C2064756D6D792100

Sure he can... we'd all qualify anyway!

50 72657465 6E74696f 75732063 756E7473

Actually, I have an interview story about one of the words you have in this particular text.

By the way, the shirt wasn't a requirement for the job. It was just an added way to bypass the interviews a bit if they happened to decode it easily.

Yes, but does it support Unicode?

457863656c6c656e742100

how much is it really?

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