Out of frame, above the other text: "Job requirements: experience with OCR-tools."
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How was OCR in 2013? This mightve basically been the test for the job
It was bad.
If I remember this site correctly from back then, it was one of those run by idiots that made you upload a PDF of your résumé, and then enter all of the same info in web forms. This tracks.
You open it up and it's a PDF.
The pdf contains a address you have to go to.
At the address is a single desk, with a woman who tells you that you can only apply online.
And she’s eating from a Costco sized tub of plain Greek yogurt
Sounds like how digitalisation works in Germany. Put the form online as PDF, then either require the other side to print and send in or recive via email then print it yourself and file it into a cabinet...
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What would be funnier is if instead of an address, it was a hyperlink embedded text that says : Click Here.
You know what? I forgive url shorteners, sometimes they truly are necessary
Why has nobody invented a URL longener?
You can always add unnecessary query parameters. Just throw on a ?fart=butts&pen=is&herp=derp etc.
If I wanted to add unnecessary characters, I'd just use dots.
Like this: (Lemmy unfortunately breaks the URL) google.com...............................................
(Psst, rumor has it you can tack on to a URL pretty much any alphanumeric text you like after typing a ? or # symbol)
Yeah, but query/hash params aren't necessary. I don't want the URL to be shortenable!
URL Shorteners can go down.
QR Codes would literally contain the entire link without relying on a third-party service.
But since they included session information on that URL, the link would still be invalid for everyone
Obviously this is a silly example, but I really do remember when they would write out full urls with paths like 3 directories deep in magazines and newspapers expecting you to manually enter those urls and visit whatever site. I hated that shit in the early days of the internet in grade school. "http://www.theentireforty-ninecharacterlongnameofthecompany.com/marketingadvertisements/newspapertimes/landingpage79fad5c21e.html" (don't click that link... i just made it up. It doesn't go anywhere.) I could barely type but now I have to get every character correct or I might accidentally end up on a black market website or porn somehow (where my fellow Whitehouse dot com victims at?). QR codes and smartphones really are godsend for print media internet ads.
P.S. I told you it didn't go anywhere. You feel better now?
P.P.S. Apparently Whitehouse dot com still functions but is no longer porn. It's some election betting thing now? Idk.
My first memory of being told to go to a web address was in 4th grade. My teacher wrote a fairly long URL on the board as something those of us who had internet at home could go look at about the lesson she was talking about. So we were expected to write this URL down on paper, and then later type it into a computer. This very slightly predates AOL keywords.
I hope none of had dyslexia or similar...
Oh don't worry it was 1994 none of us had internet at home anyway. The school didn't even have an internet connection in those days.
It took awhile before engineers also became UX people and were like “ok, but let’s start the project from an end user’s point of view.”
Unfortunately soon after that, marketers took over as the bosses of the UX people and were like “ok, let’s start this from a ‘how do we get more people clicking the buy now button’ point of view.”
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I wish someone would type that out into the comments, so I could click the dead link and feel a small sense of satisfaction; simply by knowing it was dead before I even clicked it, confirming my suspicion
But it's the internet... so 50/50 whether some hero does it for no reason, or someone throws some kinda rick-roll response. Either way, I ain't typing it out and I can live with the disappointment... sorry y'all, I'll try and be better next time
Mispelled colorado
and fstring
Hence why I said:
the accuracy is a whole other thing.
I knew some part of the URL would be screwed up.
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Well shucks, my modern technology doesn't currently have a "copy text from image". I appreciate it though
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Plot twist: the job is specifically for a transcriber/translator and requires high level of accuracy.
I could totally see this as being a thing back in the day before everyone was walking around with a supercomputer in their pocket capable of OCR.
Sadly they've already deleted that page because the URL has "trans" in it. >.>
I'm pretty sure 90% of that is just a tracking link, you could probably ignore everything after and including the question mark
No, its search parameters. Likely everything after the job ID is not needed though.
It would need the job Id parameter, but the rest looks like unnecessary filters
we have a truly marvelous application process, which this margin is too small to contain
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Do they still charge by the word? Character? Whatever? Because that's funny lol. If papers still mattered that would have cost them a fortune.
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Data entry operator?
This reminds me of how my coworker's little girl wrote Santa a letter and wrote out the Amazon links of everything she wanted in much the same fashion.
damn i missed the deadline by 12 years...
Somebody got paid by the character
I wore out my percent key typing in the url.
Somebody correct me, but I remember a url (or any long piece of text) can contain a small image. I think it was hexadecimal code. I was looking for the words "base16=" or "base32=".
You are correct those are called "data urls", they're intended to embed files in text.
This is not a data url tho, it's an ugly link
What you mean is base64, and yeah.
In this case the latter part of the link is URL-encoded XML and probably unnecessary, I'd guess that only the first two parameters of the URL are really mandatory, but who knows. There are many ancient and ugly as hell web apps out there.
I'm sure apps that convert images to text will help with accessing the website.
I thought they didn't have apps in 2013
Reminds me of my phoniatrics teacher who printed out a link for us as homework instead of just sending us the link via email
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