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Just saw this on Craigslist:
How To Apply
Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read
Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb
Replaced firstName lastName with your name.
In the body,
write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following.
write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why.
Do NOT attach anything to your email message.
Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message.
So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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They must be trying to hire millennials. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Kevin Marois wrote: So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
I'm surprised they didn't what to know what your quest was. 
Kevin Marois wrote: Consulttant
Is that their typo, or yours?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Theirs
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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At a guess, it's to prevent bots flooding them with applications, or at least weed them out.
They will have a brief summary and your email, so if they think you have the qualifications, they can get back to you directly for the full resume.
And the colour may serve to make them decide "we can work with this" or "what a tedious person to sit next to for eight hours a day".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They're probably trying to step the flow of garbage applications from completely unqualified pplicants who barely bothered to read the job posting.
The part about the favourite colour seems dumb. but if the responses I've seen to job posting in the past are any indication, there will be a shockingly high intersection between the set of people who notice it, are amused by it, and comply with it and the set of people who end up being a good fit for the role.
If I were in the job market, I'd take the colour paragraph requirement as a strong hint that at least somebody at the company has a sense of humour, and might therefore be someone I'd enjoy working with. 
I also like them asking applicants not to include a resume. Maybe my experience is atypical, but the vast majority of resumes I've had to review for software dev applicants have been horrible. And for the good applicants, the resume barely mattered because they used their cover letter to explain how their experience will enable them to solve my problems.
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Mauve. It has the most RAM.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Mauve. It has the most RAM.
Mauve is a colour? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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He's married, you can tell.
Ask him about "taupe". Apparently, it's important...
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OriginalGriff wrote: taupe
It is spelled tape with a leading "duct".
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Wow, so others remember this too!
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Actually, I like it.
It'll cut out all the "Oh, I took a course in how to write the Perfect CV*, but didn't pay attention in any of my other classes", and the "I read a web-page about how rto BS in my CV" types, who spend a HUGE amount of time working on the CV, but essentially know only a tenth of what they claim.
For the colour, let them know that you know that they're kidding. I'd go with something like "cerise with a strong hint of orange, but not too light, so more like a muddy brown, really".
* I used "CV" because I couldn't be bothered to type out the accented characters for résumé"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd tell them my favorite color is #00FFFFFF, then wait to see if anyone gets the joke.
If they don't, I don't want to work there.
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Transparent white, not bad.
Personally, I would go with neon plaid or 'I find the light at 651.23 THz particularly striking' just to see the reaction.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Or even #FC0FFF.
Hell, new computers are 64bit, now, so why can't we have colour codes like #FUK0FF?
I'd love to see what colour it is, and I'm pretty sure I'd use it a lot.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This is how we should choose our President.
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They do!
Well it's close, anyway: "What are your favourite highest-contributing corporations?"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You're #F00001 
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Who knew one (OK, two) viral videos could be so profitable:
Billion Dollar Shave Club: Unilever buys razor subscription service | The Verge[^]
Quote: DSC, which ships razors to customers for a monthly subscription fee, isn't yet profitable, but plans to be by the end of 2016. It's on target for revenues of $240 million this year, and has around 3 million customers in three countries.
OK, let's crowd-source our billion dollar startup idea.
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OK, I have no ideas.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Who knew one (OK, two) viral videos could be so profitable:
Those are modern dollars, not to be confused with the ones you grew up with
Sorry, but with all those "multi million dollar" unicorns out there that aren't, the way things are valued seems a little bit.. incorrect
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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True, but in this case - Unilever paid cash. It isn't just a matter of valuation. Well, OK, it is a case of Unilever valuing the company as worth paying 1B in cash. It's just in this case, someone got the Benjamins. It's that part that has me agog this morning.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: True, but in this case - Unilever paid cash. It isn't just a matter of valuation.
It still is; you make it sound like 'cash' is a hard currency.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You mean he didn't get one billion loonies, so he could do the Scrooge McDuck dive? I'm disappointed.
TTFN - Kent
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No, I simply mean to say that in 10 years time another zero will be added to the same price and people will exclaim how much it is.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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