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Geek Culture / EA billboard ad facing competitor

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Jeku
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2007 21:07 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2007 21:08
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This has been up for at least 5 years now, and motorists don't have enough time to digest it while driving by. You can see the Skytrain track right behind it. The funny thing about this sign is it's directly facing Radical, one of EA's main competitors in the Vancouver area. Funny eh? What do you think?? Do you think this would work in enticing software engineers to jump ship?

This might be old, but it was just posted to Kotaku and the ad is still there (in fact I drove by it just last week).

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David R
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2007 22:11 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2007 22:22
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I think that's really clever actually, but I doubt it'd have any effect on already employed engineers at a competitor.

Cool method of confusing non-coders though

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2007 22:12
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Quite cheeky, I like it

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Good way to wade through the bad people you don't want to hire.

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Ha ha, that's quite cheeky, but I bet many drivers just think "What the [word]" I know I would, you can't expect me to know what number each character means

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Posted: 3rd Mar 2007 00:45
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I've seen one of those in Sydney before.
Was stopped at a light and noticed it. Quickly punched the numbers into my phone and deciphered it when I got home

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Dave J
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2007 02:31
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Quote: "This might be old, but it was just posted to Kotaku and the ad is still there (in fact I drove by it just last week)."


Yeah, I saw that a while ago but thought it might've been photoshopped. Interesting to know it's actually real.


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What is that other one i see around, something like..

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Quote: "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't!"


But see thats a easy one

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cool!!

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hehe what a typo to get hey

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You also forgot to null-terminate it

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