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		microtonal on April 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inspired use of QR code on resume I am just wondering why this is downvoted... I never realized that you could easily create your own valid QR-codes, bumped into this site, and thought it was nice...

RossM on April 25, 2011 | [–]

Agreed (it might also interest you that you can generate them programmatically using the Google Chart API[1]).

[1]: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/qr_codes.html

masklinn on April 26, 2011 | [–]

Many applications also let you do that (iOS's quiQR does, for instance).

qrCodes (and other similar codes) are just a physical encoding of binary data.

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