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..
when you say 20 seconds did you reach for a bash command ? interested knowing which.
so much for import base64!!
curl -s http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanced-payments-operation... | html2text | grep -P '[^.*]=$' | head -n 1 | base64 -d | sed 's/../0x& /g' | xxd -r -c 100 | rev
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 ;)
I wonder if the results of that study would show whether it makes any difference. :)
I'll give you a billion dollars for it.