[extropy-chat] GOOGLE: innovative recruiting technique

[Mike Lorrey]

Yeah, it's currently getting slashdotted to death...

--- Patrick Wilken <Patrick.Wilken at Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE> wrote:

> My quick search only came up with this:
> 
> http://216.239.59.57/
> 
> which gives a 502 error to Google...
> 
> best, patrick
> 
> 
> On 16 Sep 2004, at 18:28, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> 
> > --- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3916173
> >>
> >> A billboard in Boston says "{the first 10 digit
> >> prime found in
> >> consecutive digits of e}.com" The answer to the
> >> problem is an IP
> >> address to a site that asks another problem, and so
> >> on until the smart
> >> problem solver is asked for his or her resume....
> >>
> >> Apparently we don't have to show our work on these
> >> problems. Anybody
> >> want to collaborate? ;)
> >>
> >> To figure out this problem, you first need a list of
> >> all 10 digit
> >> primes. Then you take e and make 10 digit chunks of
> >> it, incremented one
> >> digit at a time, then compare.
> >
> > They had this billboard up in Silicon Valley a while
> > ago.  For something like this, someone else has solved
> > the problem and posted the solution to the Web - so
> > you can simply google for the final answer (the page
> > which asks for your resume).
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It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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