Spotted recently on famous jobs listing site
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Required:
• Experience with ASP.NET (3.5/4.0), C# (preferred) / VB.Net
• Experience with JavaScript, AJAX, and a major JavaScript framework (e.g., jQuery, Prototype)
• Familiar with SQL Server (2005/2008) and at least one ORM (e.g. Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL)
• Knowledge of ASP.NET MVC (3/4)
• Knowledge of HTML 5, CSS 3, Responsive Designing with media queries
• Front end development skills should be demonstrable
• Producing websites from Photoshop designs
• Able to demonstrate trouble shooting abilities
• Great attention to detail
• Applicant must also have strong IT skills, be PC literate
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Political correctness?
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- Candidate
- should
- understand
- basic
- HTML
- tags
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@mikeTheLiar said:
Do I pass?- <marquee>Candidate</marquee>
- <blink>should</blink>
- <bgsound src="bhc.mid">understand
- <center>basic</center>
- <big>HTML</big>
- <applet code="foo" object="bar">tags
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@joe.edwards said:
<bgsound src="bhc.mid">understand
@http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1067570/use-of-bgsound-tag-in-html said:
It is a non-standard tag which instructs the browser to load and play a sound file (famously, at least in the mid-90's, a MIDI file) while the user is browsing your site.
Didn't know that one.
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@Arnavion said:
@joe.edwards said:
<bgsound src="bhc.mid">understand
@http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1067570/use-of-bgsound-tag-in-html said:
It is a non-standard tag which instructs the browser to load and play a sound file (famously, at least in the mid-90's, a MIDI file) while the user is browsing your site.
Didn't know that one.
Bonus points to whomever identifies the song from the file name.
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@joe.edwards said:
Bonus points to whomever identifies the song from the file name.
No worry. Google keeps making their search more and more useless.Filed under: Without Googling
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Hint: 80s movie with a catchy theme song that translates well to midi
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Damn. I do ASP.NET MVC3 with Linq and jquery, but I use an IBM Selectric.
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@db2 said:
Damn. I do ASP.NET MVC3 with Linq and jquery, but I use an IBM Selectric.
Well look at you, Mr. Fancy Pants and your electric typewriter. You really think you'res ome sort of big shot.
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@joe.edwards said:
Hint: 80s movie with a catchy theme song that translates well to midi
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F.
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@Strolskon said:
@joe.edwards said:
I was pretty sure that was the correct answer, but when I tried to use Google to double check, I found out otherwise. Apparently bhc.mid is a light bulb for a projector.Hint: 80s movie with a catchy theme song that translates well to midi
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F.
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I guess Strolskon is smarter than Ben L.
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@joe.edwards said:
Hint: 80s movie with a catchy theme song that translates well to midi
Oh, that one. Back in the late '80s I did a hands-on trial of some new car features (power-assist steering was one I remember, and one of the first touch-screen control panels), and that's the tune they used to demonstrate the sound system.PC, to return to the original ad, stands for [i]post cibum[/i], Latin for "after meals", and is usually encountered in prescription instructions. I therefore assume that "PC literate" means you can read and write, but only on a full stomach.
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@joe.edwards said:
- <blink>should</blink>
Fun fact: the blink tag was never official, and support for it was dropped from most major browsers a looooong time ago.
Slightly less-fun fact: I once had to implement a manual (javascript) version of the blink tag. It is still in place to this date.
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@El_Heffe said:
Lern2google. I put quotes around the phrase and got the answer four times from two different sites on the first page of results.@joe.edwards said:
Bonus points to whomever identifies the song from the file name.
No worry. Google keeps making their search more and more useless.Filed under: Without Googling
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@FragFrog said:
@joe.edwards said:
- <blink>should</blink>
Fun fact: the blink tag was never official, and support for it was dropped from most major browsers a looooong time ago.
Slightly less-fun fact: I once had to implement a manual (javascript) version of the blink tag. It is still in place to this date.
<blink>Blink?</blink>
Oh pointy birds!
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@mikeTheLiar said:
Oh pointy birds!
[url=http://farm1.staticflickr.com/2/1362599_02bcdea730.jpg]Oh the humanity![/url]
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@FragFrog said:
Slightly less-fun fact: I once had to implement a manual (javascript) version of the blink tag. It is still in place to this date.
Preposterous, who in his right mind would do such a thing? Everyone knows that you can just use CSS.
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@FragFrog said:
@joe.edwards said:
Fortunately, W3C standardised support for it in CSS. I believe at least some modern browsers still have support for it.- <blink>should</blink>
Fun fact: the blink tag was never official, and support for it was dropped from most major browsers a looooong time ago.
Slightly less-fun fact: I once had to implement a manual (javascript) version of the blink tag. It is still in place to this date.
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Googling for (bhc.mid MIDI) works a lot better.
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@FragFrog said:
@joe.edwards said:
- <blink>should</blink>
Fun fact: the blink tag was never official, and support for it was dropped from most major browsers a looooong time ago.
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@DaveK said:
@FragFrog said:
@joe.edwards said:
Fortunately, W3C standardised support for it in CSS. I believe at least some modern browsers still have support for it.
Fun fact: the blink tag was never official, and support for it was dropped from most major browsers a looooong time ago.- <blink>should</blink>
Slightly less-fun fact: I once had to implement a manual (javascript) version of the blink tag. It is still in place to this date.
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@dtech said:
Preposterous, who in his right mind would do such a thing? Everyone knows that you can just use CSS.
Great. So now we have a blink tag that [i]only works in the latest modern browsers[/i]. What is this, opposite-day?
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@El_Heffe said:
@db2 said:
Damn. I do ASP.NET MVC3 with Linq and jquery, but I use an IBM Selectric.
Well look at you, Mr. Fancy Pants and your electric typewriter. You really think you'res ome sort of big shot.And his electric typewriter is more secure... xD
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@dtech said:
@FragFrog said:
Slightly less-fun fact: I once had to implement a manual (javascript) version of the blink tag. It is still in place to this date.
Preposterous, who in his right mind would do such a thing? Everyone knows that you can just use CSS.
Some guy claims that [a] light has gone out on the web. Me, I don't miss it.
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@FragFrog said:
@dtech said:
Preposterous, who in his right mind would do such a thing? Everyone knows that you can just use CSS.
Great. So now we have a blink tag that only works in the latest modern browsers. What is this, opposite-day?The original tag also once worked only on the latest most modern browsers.
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@TheCPUWizard said:
@amyb said:
Don't even need that. IIRC, the Selectric used a single-use film ribbon. The typed document could be recovered from the used ribbon.And his electric typewriter is more secure... xD
Not if he is using Carbon Paper!
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@Phlogiston said:
Required:
• Experience with ASP.NET (3.5/4.0), C# (preferred) / VB.Net
• Experience with JavaScript, AJAX, and a major JavaScript framework (e.g., jQuery, Prototype)
• Familiar with SQL Server (2005/2008) and at least one ORM (e.g. Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL)
• Knowledge of ASP.NET MVC (3/4)
• Knowledge of HTML 5, CSS 3, Responsive Designing with media queries
• Front end development skills should be demonstrable
• Producing websites from Photoshop designs
• Able to demonstrate trouble shooting abilities
• Great attention to detail
• Applicant must also have strong IT skills, be PC literateThe part in bold is just a subtle way to say: no if you work here you won't get a fucking Macbook you will get a nice Lenovo with Microsoft development tools.
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@Ronald said:
@Phlogiston said:
• Applicant must also have strong IT skills, be PC literate
The part in bold is just a subtle way to say: no if you work here you won't get a fucking Macbook you will get a nice Lenovo with Microsoft development tools.
Only illiterate idiots consider apple PCs to not be PCs, so it doesn't really make it any less of a WTF.
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@FrostCat said:
A light has gone out on the web. And come on again. And gone out again. And come on again ...@dtech said:
@FragFrog said:
Slightly less-fun fact: I once had to implement a manual (javascript) version of the blink tag. It is still in place to this date.
Preposterous, who in his right mind would do such a thing? Everyone knows that you can just use CSS.
Some guy claims that [a] light has gone out on the web. Me, I don't miss it.
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@DaveK said:
@FrostCat said:
@dtech said:
@FragFrog said:
Slightly less-fun fact: I once had to implement a manual (javascript) version of the blink tag. It is still in place to this date.
Preposterous, who in his right mind would do such a thing? Everyone knows that you can just use CSS.
Some guy claims that [a] light has gone out on the web. Me, I don't miss it.
A light has gone out on the web. And come on again. And gone out again. And come on again ...
DFTFY
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@DaveK said:
@El_Heffe said:
bhc.mid is not a phrase. It contains no spaces so it should be considered a single word, which means that quotes should not be needed. @DaveK said:@joe.edwards said:
Lern2google. I put quotes around the phraseBonus points to whomever identifies the song from the file name.
No worry. Google keeps making their search more and more useless.Filed under: Without Googling
and got the answer four times from two different sites on the first page of results.
Apparently you have a better Google than I do.
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@El_Heffe said:
bhc.mid is not a phrase. It contains no spaces so it should be considered a single word, which means that quotes should not be needed.
It contains a word separator, hence it will be parsed as two separate words.For example, is there a single word 'words.For' in this paragraph or two separate words?
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@PJH said:
It contains a word separator, hence it will be parsed as two separate words.For example, is there a single word 'words.For' in this paragraph or two separate words?
A period is not a valid word separator.
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@Faxmachinen said:
google has its own ideas on that@PJH said:
It contains a word separator, hence it will be parsed as two separate words.For example, is there a single word 'words.For' in this paragraph or two separate words?
A period is not a valid word separator.
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@Faxmachinen said:
@PJH said:
It contains a word separator, hence it will be parsed as two separate words.For example, is there a single word 'words.For' in this paragraph or two separate words?
A period is not a valid word separator.
Yes it is... In fact it's so good at separating individual words that some people use it to separate whole sentences. Far out, huh?