Flickr Flips Its 'About' Page Upside Down, Revealing Fossilized Job Ad in the Source Code

Yep, it's still there

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Back in the aughts, when Google wanted to recruit developers, it famously put up a billboard with a complex math problem that led to a website with an even more complex math problem. Last year, when Flickr, owned by Yahoo, wanted to recruit developers, it less famously hid a link to its jobs site in the page's source code—which unlike some superhuman math problem, any old muppet from the non-coder underclass can access using the menu bar or keyboard hotkeys.

Last week, the buried ad—"You're reading.

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