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Got the string after 7-8 Minutes. Took further 15 minutes to get the last program running though. I neither like nor am I used to that brown, ugly four letter thingy.

The rest of the puzzle was nice though. Liked the double hex encoding. Wasted too much time on trying to fix my perl code to not give me the hex code I just threw in again until I noticed that it's working fine from the beginning and I have to just use the same perl script a second time.

Would have had no idea from which game or movie that could have been from, though.

Well, 7 minutes, but only because the four-letter thing at the end was something unusual for me, I’m at work where we have Kubuntu instead of my usual BSD, and because I had to help a colleague with his notebook during that… and I didn’t hurry. I think 3‥4 minutes should be easily doable.

This is easy puzzle, no encryption nothing, just simple encoding, lot of time wasted on converting bytes codes on Windows. Ah Windows don't have built in xxd.

The puzzle owned. Something like 5 minutes to decode with C# and 10 wasted on trying to run the bytecode when I could've read the answer as plaintext. :P Loved the Starcraft reference.

More job offers with puzzles please! :)

23 Minutes.. And littered the filesystem with a whole lot of intermediate files underways...

25 minutes including some work-related interactions. Pretty cool puzzle. Glad you didn't convert the first input to a picture with some weird font that would require either some mad OCR or retyping :P

WTF, I'm not Mägi :) (prev post)

1h 20min to solve (lacking 0x48 0x45 0x58 ediror etc.), I suck.

I very much enjoyed solving the puzzle ;-)

For the position you seek, you guys would be better off with something like the classic:

Please help us fix the following program:

cat "test... test... test..." | perl -e '$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{;;y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/" -;;s;;$_;see'

(warning: don't run this code)

Nice puzzle, it took 3 hours to solve complitely. Shame on me...

@kL: You can solve it without running any unknown code.

Figured out the message however getting an exception

solved it in 20 seconds wow you guys are slow

Not bad. 5-ish minutes to solve, and once I got the quote I failed at knowing where it was from. Ask a search engine, and boom, there it was.

I'm stuck, because I'm paranoid and refuse to run someone's code on my computer, twice.

Solved in under 5 minutes. Good luck to those willing to apply.

solved with php in <5 minutes. thanks, that was funny :)

@Norman Richards

So true and same here :(

30 minutes. But - I think in PHB category I should win by miles!

@Noman

5 minutes? Did you have to take a smoke? :P

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Nice, thanks. Python+gvim+google (seems popular).

Thanks for wasting my time :p
But i did it!! :D

Took about 3 minutes using no coding. Just a few online tools, a hex editor and one tool I won't mention because it'd give something away.

Just got a call from the PHB. He was supposed to be home 6:30 pm but he could not leave the office before 6:45 because he was battling with the problem :)

python + 20 mins = starcraft quote.

Starcraft and Python FTW. Took 5 minutes.

It took some 10 minutes, but I didn't recognize the quote! Then again I never played Starcraft...

Nice puzzle though.

Nice! took me a bit less (10~15min) but I had tooling (+google)! anyway, great puzzle.... unless it also involves mastering starcraft :P

@Toomas I think we cooperated on the 15min :)

I guess my time was also 15min from couple of years back to a similar puzzle. Remaking this with some other technologies took a lot more :)

heh, fun times. About 10 minutes, mostly due to a lack of a working ****** editor.

Starcraft FTW!

10-15 mins, starcraft, job sounds ok pity it's on the other side of the planet!

Hey guys,

it took me about 40 minutes to do it, mainly because of tooling ;)

I think it is from Starcraft or so...

Good luck all others...

Adam