evan_tech -- ad wtf

11:08 pm, 13 Feb 05

ad wtf

There's a serious disconnect between the advertising and technical groups at this poor company:

I sorta feel like I'm getting trolled and it's really intended to be weird.

You could excuse a single equals for equality testing but then right below they use one for assignment, so no. And then the tabs, and then the function call both with and without parenthesis, and then the end matching the open curly, and then at a more semantic level what could it mean for threshold and salary_sucks to be equal?

jackola They clearly are not of the nerd elite.

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jope Weed-out ad?

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- jwz Yeah, someone totally had the weed out.
  
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igrokme

I love your dissection of it. But I see so many ads that don't make sense.. often, that's the point (as shown in some psych studies) -- break up the message and the user will be forced to spend brain cycles reassembling it. Also psychologically, "Hey, I can do better than that! I wonder how many people caught that." and you get that ersatz superiority over their marketing and those other candidates, better take advantage of it now....

Not to mention posting it for free on their own websites in the process. I tend to think that this level of cynicism toward advertising is warranted.

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evan I tend to think that this level of cynicism toward advertising is warranted.
Me too. That's why I blurred out the company name. :)

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- dan_erat I think you missed the company name on the second line of "code". :)
  
  http://thedailywtf.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=26536
  
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jwz
(assert (rulesp setq))
The = vs == thing? Totally dumb.

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wealhtheow	I highly doubt that ad was made by the advertising department at your poor company; it almost certainly was made by the advertiser. But hey, when I was in the advertising department at your poor company, I was considered the go-to girl for technical campaigns because I know what a kernel is.
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legolas And what does it mean to set 'goto' to dice.com() ?!

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jackola	They clearly are not of the nerd elite.
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evan	I tend to think that this level of cynicism toward advertising is warranted. Me too. That's why I blurred out the company name. :)
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dan_erat	I think you missed the company name on the second line of "code". :) http://thedailywtf.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=26536
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jwz	(assert (rulesp setq)) The = vs == thing? Totally dumb.
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legolas	And what does it mean to set 'goto' to dice.com() ?!
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jope	Weed-out ad?
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jwz	Yeah, someone totally had the weed out.
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evan_tech

ad wtf

(assert (rulesp setq))