The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Hasteur:
3. parent them in the fact that it's perfectly ok to get naked in public and swim in strange pools.

Not everybody lives in la-di-dah landscaped suburbs with ponds so you can impart this valuable lesson one way or the other. Many city centre neighbourhoods are entirely pond-free.

(As are many trailer parks, of course.)

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

"Can you describe the physics of a transistor?"

"Field, junction, or point?  You don't see point transistors much any more; the maximum beta is just too small, although you can't beat 'em where extreme sensitivity is required in the pre-amp stage.  All serious power transistors are junctions.  FETs are for wimps."

"So can you describe the physical structure of a Flash memory cell?"

"It's like a field-effect transistor with a floating gate between the control gate and the junction.  To write a one, for instance, the control gate simply pushes the floating gate closer to the junction.  Writing a zero pulls it away.  The NOR structure connects the cells vertically, whereas the NAND structure connects the cells horizontally.  I'm pretty sure Chen did a paper on this.  NAND flash requires less layout area, so you get more capacity at lower cost."

"Ok, can you at least tell me how DRAM memory cell works?"

"You're talking destructive read-out, right?  Because otherwise every cell has to have a field-effect switch as direct output.  If you want to get a serious amount of

megadogs onto a chip, you just don't have the real estate for a lot of FETs. One of the biggest problems with DRAM is the charge state could be at any phase when the read signal arrives, so you don't know when the Schmidt trigger will fire. That's why they have those pulse wideners on every column."

"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"

"That question reminds me of the time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville; I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war; the only thing you could get was those big yellow ones."

"So did you actually prepare for the interview at all, or did you think you can just wing it?"

"Actually, I thought I was going to be interviewed by somebody who knows at least a little bit about hardware.  Do you have anyone like that here?"

-Harrow.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

neminem:
Hasteur:
Wow... I'm not going to begin to consider how messed up it is to

Bring your kids to a job interview

Leave them in the car during the day

parent them in the fact that it's perfectly ok to get naked in public and swim in strange pools.
While I would agree entirely with the first two, depending on the age of the children (or possibly not), it's entirely possible to imagine that they were certainly not being brought up to think that that was perfectly ok... but decided that they were going to do it anyway. Possibly even specifically for that reason. Did you never do anything your parents didn't want you to as a small child?

My younger daughter as a 2 year old would always answer the front door naked. 5 seconds ago she had clothes on but then the doorbell would ring and she was naked! I had no idea how she did that. But I can tell you that at certain ages, parenting has little to do with it. (She came to work with me recently and everyone remarked at how mature and well-behaved she was as a 10-year-old.)

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

frits:
McFly:
"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"
There is only one correct answer to this:

Flux capacitor... fluxing!

Hardly...
The correct answer is to provide inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors and to automatically synchronize cardinal grammeters. Everybody knows that.

Yes, yes. But if you forget to inverse or you get a proactive current. The multilateral phase destructors will kick in and we all know what happens when that occurs!

"I never thought I'd live to see a resonance cascade!"

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

cheap jersey slinkquote user:
=abadidea"It's sad how many brilliant people there are who simply cannot communicate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he could boondoggle the frabbulators in his sleep, but he literally has no idea how to put the process into English..., which means that on the face of it, he could do the job great, but he couldn't document anything nor train anybody.
RE: interviewing mother, poor thing - everyone with kids is put into a mortifyingly embarrassing situation by said child processes at least once. The real kicker is she was probably thinking, "Once I get this job, this will be the last time I have to take my kids out because I can't afford a babysitter."/quote]

For this comment, inspired me, feeling this author words into my heart.

I agree, Ababidea's post is some of Best writing I have seen! Cheap, your words convey beauty as well as the best written Indian poetry. You should come to Hyderabad and work writing code comments, clients would pay highly for my quality code with your beautiful comments. I am very good programer, I prove so by typing all codes by hand in this reply and not previewing. Quote buttons are for lazy programmers and preview button is for bad programmers who make mistake!

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Post of the day! El Oh freaking El.

My single desire today is now to go on a stress interview solely to talk about tying an onion to my belt.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

So did John get the job or not?

kindall · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Should I ever have someone berate me for not taking a job, I think the only appropriate response is something along the lines of, "So hurling abuse at me is supposed to make me want to take this job, is it? Could I expect more of this sort of treatment if I did come to work for you?" I don't understand how people think this is even remotely useful behavior, if "think" is indeed the correct word.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Trippy:
Post of the day! El Oh freaking El.
My single desire today is now to go on a stress interview solely to talk about tying an onion to my belt.

Inspiring onion, verifying desire to cry, on with the transistor junction, most beautiful.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

kindall:
Should I ever have someone berate me for not taking a job, I think the only appropriate response is something along the lines of, "So hurling abuse at me is supposed to make me want to take this job, is it? Could I expect more of this sort of treatment if I did come to work for you?" I don't understand how people think this is even remotely useful behavior, if "think" is indeed the correct word.

It's not, but it sure makes you feel better, A**HOLE!

Ahh...

Dragnslcr · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

PRMan:
My younger daughter as a 2 year old would always answer the front door naked. 5 seconds ago she had clothes on but then the doorbell would ring and she was naked! I had no idea how she did that. But I can tell you that at certain ages, parenting has little to do with it. (She came to work with me recently and everyone remarked at how mature and well-behaved she was as a 10-year-old.)

Look for a clip of Dana Carvey's stand-up routine about his children and "naked time".

Matt Westwood · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Harrow:

"Can you describe the physics of a transistor?"

"Field, junction, or point?  You don't see point transistors much any more; the maximum beta is just too small, although you can't beat 'em where extreme sensitivity is required in the pre-amp stage.  All serious power transistors are junctions.  FETs are for wimps."

"So can you describe the physical structure of a Flash memory cell?"

"It's like a field-effect transistor with a floating gate between the control gate and the junction.  To write a one, for instance, the control gate simply pushes the floating gate closer to the junction.  Writing a zero pulls it away.  The NOR structure connects the cells vertically, whereas the NAND structure connects the cells horizontally.  I'm pretty sure Chen did a paper on this.  NAND flash requires less layout area, so you get more capacity at lower cost."

"Ok, can you at least tell me how DRAM memory cell works?"

"You're talking destructive read-out, right?  Because otherwise every cell has to have a field-effect switch as direct output.  If you want to get a serious amount of

megadogs onto a chip, you just don't have the real estate for a lot of FETs. One of the biggest problems with DRAM is the charge state could be at any phase when the read signal arrives, so you don't know when the Schmidt trigger will fire. That's why they have those pulse wideners on every column."

"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"

"That question reminds me of the time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville; I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war; the only thing you could get was those big yellow ones."

"So did you actually prepare for the interview at all, or did you think you can just wing it?"

"Actually, I thought I was going to be interviewed by somebody who knows at least a little bit about hardware.  Do you have anyone like that here?"

-Harrow.

"So what technique did you use to tie the onion to your belt? The big yellow ones don't have anything to tie the string to, and you're not going to be able to pierce the onion without discombobulating the proformisationals, and if that happens you'll catch nirdle blight. So, your technique was ... ?"

Matt Westwood · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

abadidea:
It's sad how many brilliant people there are who simply cannot communicate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he could boondoggle the frabbulators in his sleep, but he literally has no idea how to put the process into English..., which means that on the face of it, he could do the job great, but he couldn't document anything nor train anybody.
RE: interviewing mother, poor thing - everyone with kids is put into a mortifyingly embarrassing situation by said child processes at least once. The real kicker is she was probably thinking, "Once I get this job, this will be the last time I have to take my kids out because I can't afford a babysitter."

With any luck the kids will catch typhoid and die (they must be retards to do something as stupid as that) and she won't have to worry about childminders any more. Hey, it gets better - she could sue the company for not providing a child-proof barrier (e.g 6 foot wall) round the pond, or a sign saying: "Visitors are requested to refrain from bodily immersion herein whilst engaging in ecdysiastics."

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Matt Westwood:
abadidea:
It's sad how many brilliant people there are who simply cannot communicate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he could boondoggle the frabbulators in his sleep, but he literally has no idea how to put the process into English..., which means that on the face of it, he could do the job great, but he couldn't document anything nor train anybody.
RE: interviewing mother, poor thing - everyone with kids is put into a mortifyingly embarrassing situation by said child processes at least once. The real kicker is she was probably thinking, "Once I get this job, this will be the last time I have to take my kids out because I can't afford a babysitter."

With any luck the kids will catch typhoid and die (they must be retards to do something as stupid as that) and she won't have to worry about childminders any more. Hey, it gets better - she could sue the company for not providing a child-proof barrier (e.g 6 foot wall) round the pond, or a sign saying: "Visitors are requested to refrain from bodily immersion herein whilst engaging in ecdysiastics."

Bored?

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Only a fool would accept a matching offer.

snoofle · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

pnieuwkamp:
snoofle:
Re: sixth guy - I've had a few like that - I indulge up to three questions, then respond: you've wasted enough of my time, thank you for yours
Well, if the rest went ok, explain to him he must've mistaken the room number, as you're there for a programming job, not for low level hardware design.
The way the interview is going he isn't going to recommend you anyway, and that way you can at least try and salvage the situation if there really is a miscommunication at play. Unless it's going to be your boss, letting one interviewer out of a whole procedure get to you isn't worth it.

I agree, with the slight difference that I wouldn't want to work with someone like that (whether they're being a jerk on purpose (which serves no real purpose for a programming job) or they simply are a jerk). I never let an interviewer "get to me", but if it's painfully clear that my time is being wasted, I have no problem saying that I know they're wasting my time and cutting it short.

Matt Westwood · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

C-Octothorpe:
Matt Westwood:
abadidea:
It's sad how many brilliant people there are who simply cannot communicate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he could boondoggle the frabbulators in his sleep, but he literally has no idea how to put the process into English..., which means that on the face of it, he could do the job great, but he couldn't document anything nor train anybody.
RE: interviewing mother, poor thing - everyone with kids is put into a mortifyingly embarrassing situation by said child processes at least once. The real kicker is she was probably thinking, "Once I get this job, this will be the last time I have to take my kids out because I can't afford a babysitter."

With any luck the kids will catch typhoid and die (they must be retards to do something as stupid as that) and she won't have to worry about childminders any more. Hey, it gets better - she could sue the company for not providing a child-proof barrier (e.g 6 foot wall) round the pond, or a sign saying: "Visitors are requested to refrain from bodily immersion herein whilst engaging in ecdysiastics."

Bored?

Yeah, now you mention it. Procrastinating. Supposed to be documenting (and proving) the fact that separability and compactness are continuous invariants but I'm too tired (been a stressful day in a client's impossibly hot office (now there's the WTF: spanking brand new business park, no air conditioning) and I can't think straight). Perhaps I ought to read another chapter of that Iain M. Banks novel instead.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

kindall:
Should I ever have someone berate me for not taking a job, I think the only appropriate response is something along the lines of, "So hurling abuse at me is supposed to make me want to take this job, is it? Could I expect more of this sort of treatment if I did come to work for you?" I don't understand how people think this is even remotely useful behavior, if "think" is indeed the correct word.

Quite. What exactly do they think the candidate is going to say? "I was going to turn down your offer, but your torrent of abuse has changed my mind." Same applies to candidates who launch into a torrent of abuse after being turned down for a job.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

I would have commented earlier, but I was pursuing commenting opportunities on other websites.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Matt Westwood:
C-Octothorpe:
Matt Westwood:
abadidea:
It's sad how many brilliant people there are who simply cannot communicate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he could boondoggle the frabbulators in his sleep, but he literally has no idea how to put the process into English..., which means that on the face of it, he could do the job great, but he couldn't document anything nor train anybody.
RE: interviewing mother, poor thing - everyone with kids is put into a mortifyingly embarrassing situation by said child processes at least once. The real kicker is she was probably thinking, "Once I get this job, this will be the last time I have to take my kids out because I can't afford a babysitter."

With any luck the kids will catch typhoid and die (they must be retards to do something as stupid as that) and she won't have to worry about childminders any more. Hey, it gets better - she could sue the company for not providing a child-proof barrier (e.g 6 foot wall) round the pond, or a sign saying: "Visitors are requested to refrain from bodily immersion herein whilst engaging in ecdysiastics."

Bored?

Yeah, now you mention it. Procrastinating. Supposed to be documenting (and proving) the fact that separability and compactness are continuous invariants but I'm too tired (been a stressful day in a client's impossibly hot office (now there's the WTF: spanking brand new business park, no air conditioning) and I can't think straight). Perhaps I ought to read another chapter of that Iain M. Banks novel instead.

Lol, I thought the same thing about my comment too... Long day, but almost over.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Anon:
I would have commented earlier, but I was pursuing commenting opportunities on other websites.

We'll beat the other forum's offer by 5%, plus an additional 3 days vacation... Whaddya say?

Matt Westwood · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

C-Octothorpe:
Anon:
I would have commented earlier, but I was pursuing commenting opportunities on other websites.

We'll beat the other forum's offer by 5%, plus an additional 3 days vacation... Whaddya say?

That sounds ... argh - sorry, got to go - my grandmother's running naked through the bandtoband.com Complete Shambles forum ...

Nagesh · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

boog:
C-Octothorpe:
Nagesh:
C-Octothorpe:
JJ:
"Things were looking up great."
As opposed to, you know, things looking up badly.
No, things were looking down terrible.

PS - didn't you know Nagesh does the proof reading around here?
You're damn iritiating mosquito!
See? Damn, you're good...
It's surprising what excellent grammar he exhibits when he really wants to (or more likely, when he forgets to stay in character).

I stand surprised!

boog · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Harrow:

"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"

"That question reminds me of the time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville; I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war; the only thing you could get was those big yellow ones."</div></BLOCKQUOTE>Thank you for the classic Simpsons reference.  It made my day.

Hasteur · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

neminem:
Hasteur:
Wow... I'm not going to begin to consider how messed up it is to

Bring your kids to a job interview

Leave them in the car during the day

parent them in the fact that it's perfectly ok to get naked in public and swim in strange pools.
While I would agree entirely with the first two, depending on the age of the children (or possibly not), it's entirely possible to imagine that they were certainly not being brought up to think that that was perfectly ok... but decided that they were going to do it anyway. Possibly even specifically for that reason. Did you never do anything your parents didn't want you to as a small child?

Acutally, no. I was a "Keep your hands to yourself" kind of kid. The only really bad thing I did was steal a taste of cookie dough at the local grocery store along with some friends, lie about stealing it when the others got punished, and get a cookie afterwords.

Hasteur · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Marvin the Martian:
Hasteur:
3. parent them in the fact that it's perfectly ok to get naked in public and swim in strange pools.
Not everybody lives in la-di-dah landscaped suburbs with ponds so you can impart this valuable lesson one way or the other. Many city centre neighbourhoods are entirely pond-free.
(As are many trailer parks, of course.)

And I'm sure your parents let you swim around the drainage creek when you were a child?

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Harrow:
"So did you actually prepare for the interview at all, or did you think you can just wing it?"
"Actually, I thought I was going to be interviewed by somebody who knows at least a little bit about hardware. Do you have anyone like that here?"

Every other answer is a bit crappy, you know, just boring, trying to be jokes but in fact ending in disasters. Well, except for the Simpsons one, that one is nice but strongly off-topic so I can't count that.

However this answer is really state of the art and for that, you shall be remembered.

da Doctah · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Matt Westwood:
"So what technique did you use to tie the onion to your belt? The big yellow ones don't have anything to tie the string to, and you're not going to be able to pierce the onion without discombobulating the proformisationals, and if that happens you'll catch nirdle blight. So, your technique was ... ?"

"...subject to a binding non-disclosure agreement. I'm sure you'll understand why I can't elaborate further."

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

The Great Lobachevsky:
"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"
I wonder how many other people here got the Retroencabulator reference :)
damnum - damnum Askismet...

Not me. Please explain.

havokk · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

"So did you actually prepare for the interview at all, or did you think you can just wing it?"

I think an appropriate reply would be: So, did you actually read the job description of the position I am interviewing for or did you think you can just wing it?

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

"Can you describe the physics of a transistor?" I think so.

"So can you describe the physical structure of a Flash memory cell?" Why yes, yes I could.

"Ok, can you at least tell me how DRAM memory cell works?" As a matter of fact, I can.

"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"

Can't I just use both?

"So did you actually prepare for the interview at all, or did you think you can just wing it?" Sure I prepared, but you didn;t ask very good questions.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

C-Octothorpe:
Matt Westwood:
C-Octothorpe:
Matt Westwood:
abadidea:
It's sad how many brilliant people there are who simply cannot communicate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he could boondoggle the frabbulators in his sleep, but he literally has no idea how to put the process into English..., which means that on the face of it, he could do the job great, but he couldn't document anything nor train anybody.
RE: interviewing mother, poor thing - everyone with kids is put into a mortifyingly embarrassing situation by said child processes at least once. The real kicker is she was probably thinking, "Once I get this job, this will be the last time I have to take my kids out because I can't afford a babysitter."

With any luck the kids will catch typhoid and die (they must be retards to do something as stupid as that) and she won't have to worry about childminders any more. Hey, it gets better - she could sue the company for not providing a child-proof barrier (e.g 6 foot wall) round the pond, or a sign saying: "Visitors are requested to refrain from bodily immersion herein whilst engaging in ecdysiastics."

Bored?

Yeah, now you mention it. Procrastinating. Supposed to be documenting (and proving) the fact that separability and compactness are continuous invariants but I'm too tired (been a stressful day in a client's impossibly hot office (now there's the WTF: spanking brand new business park, no air conditioning) and I can't think straight). Perhaps I ought to read another chapter of that Iain M. Banks novel instead.

Lol, I thought the same thing about my comment too... Long day, but almost over.

Get a room, guys!

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

Hasteur:
Marvin the Martian:
Hasteur:
3. parent them in the fact that it's perfectly ok to get naked in public and swim in strange pools.
Not everybody lives in la-di-dah landscaped suburbs with ponds so you can impart this valuable lesson one way or the other. Many city centre neighbourhoods are entirely pond-free.
(As are many trailer parks, of course.)

And I'm sure your parents let you swim around the drainage creek when you were a child?

Who hasn't done this?

ObiWayneKenobi · 2011-04-19 Reply Admin

I probably would have said something like "Can I roll an Intelligence check to figure out what you just said to me?" to the 6th guy, or went on some sci-fi pseudo technobabble out of Star Wars/Star Trek

How anyone can think that kind of interview does any good is totally beyond me.

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

ObiWayneKenobi:
I probably would have said something like "Can I roll an Intelligence check to figure out what you just said to me?" to the 6th guy, or went on some sci-fi pseudo technobabble out of Star Wars/Star Trek
How anyone can think that kind of interview does any good is totally beyond me.

Wikipedia needs you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_interview#Validity_and_predictive_power You could be the "Who?" at the end of the paragraph

2011-04-19 Reply Admin

My first comment at dailywtf after lurking for a while, and I get complimented by Nagesh... I'm not sure how to take this :)

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

abadidea:
My first comment at dailywtf after lurking for a while, and I get complimented by Nagesh... I'm not sure how to take this :)

Bend over, I'll show you ;)

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

You're not too smart, are you?

Matt Westwood · 2011-04-20 Reply Admin

Janine:
C-Octothorpe:
Matt Westwood:
C-Octothorpe:
Matt Westwood:
abadidea:
It's sad how many brilliant people there are who simply cannot communicate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he could boondoggle the frabbulators in his sleep, but he literally has no idea how to put the process into English..., which means that on the face of it, he could do the job great, but he couldn't document anything nor train anybody.
RE: interviewing mother, poor thing - everyone with kids is put into a mortifyingly embarrassing situation by said child processes at least once. The real kicker is she was probably thinking, "Once I get this job, this will be the last time I have to take my kids out because I can't afford a babysitter."

With any luck the kids will catch typhoid and die (they must be retards to do something as stupid as that) and she won't have to worry about childminders any more. Hey, it gets better - she could sue the company for not providing a child-proof barrier (e.g 6 foot wall) round the pond, or a sign saying: "Visitors are requested to refrain from bodily immersion herein whilst engaging in ecdysiastics."

Bored?

Yeah, now you mention it. Procrastinating. Supposed to be documenting (and proving) the fact that separability and compactness are continuous invariants but I'm too tired (been a stressful day in a client's impossibly hot office (now there's the WTF: spanking brand new business park, no air conditioning) and I can't think straight). Perhaps I ought to read another chapter of that Iain M. Banks novel instead.

Lol, I thought the same thing about my comment too... Long day, but almost over.

Get a room, guys!

Great idea. Cocto, you get the drinks in, I'll turn down the sheets and see if I can find something appropriate on the pay-per-view channel, I'll meet you up there ...

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

COBOL, no. But if anyone needs a DIBOL programmer, let me know.

Pyrexkidd · 2011-04-20 Reply Admin

frits:
McFly:
"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"
There is only one correct answer to this:

Flux capacitor... fluxing!

Hardly...
The correct answer is to provide inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors and to automatically synchronize cardinal grammeters. Everybody knows that.

hehe, cardinal grammeters--it must be going really, really, really... fast... I mean because the cardinal grammeters are automagically configured and all. BTW these special grammeters measure in Kilogram-Newton-ohms-per-mile-hour-ounce. abbreviated to (KgNO/MHOz * sqrt( X^2 ) / sqrt( X^2))...

Incaseyoudidntknow...

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

Pyrexkidd:
frits:
McFly:
"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"
There is only one correct answer to this:

Flux capacitor... fluxing!

Hardly...
The correct answer is to provide inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors and to automatically synchronize cardinal grammeters. Everybody knows that.

hehe, cardinal grammeters--it must be going really, really, really... fast... I mean because the cardinal grammeters are automagically configured and all. BTW these special grammeters measure in Kilogram-Newton-ohms-per-mile-hour-ounce. abbreviated to (KgNO/MHOz * sqrt( X^2 ) / sqrt( X^2))...

Incaseyoudidntknow...

Wouldn't it be easier just to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

the real wtf of the last story is that the guy prays :D

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

akatherder:
snoofle:
Re: sixth guy - I've had a few like that - I indulge up to three questions, then respond: you've wasted enough of my time, thank you for yours

It's a game more than anything. They're trying to see how long he can ask questions before you give up. Nobody knows everything so they want to know how you react when presented with something you don't understand.

Will you waste everyone's time by declining each question individually, hoping to stumble on an easy enough question that you can formulate an answer and earn the interviewer's approval?

Will you throw a hissyfit and whine about him wasting your time?

Or will you explain that there must be some misunderstanding? This wasn't part of the job description and given the line of questioning, he might as well be speaking Greek. You're willing to hear him out, but you have zero knowledge/experience with the subject matter.

TBH... I don't have time for this kind of malarkey. An interviewer is there to impress, and WILL act differently at an interview compared to real life.

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

frits:
da Doctah:
cappeca:
"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"

You just do it.

And if you need anything further, you can find me out front, skinny dipping in the pond.
I'm pretty sure you be arrested and charged with indecent exposure if you did that.

Your not too smart, are you?

Well, depends. If it's a pretty girl, I'm unlikely to call the cops in the first place.... hell it might even help with the interview... :)

toshir0 · 2011-04-20 Reply Admin

Matt Westwood:
Harrow:
"Can you describe the physics of a transistor?"
[...Harrow's answer...]

"So can you describe the physical structure of a Flash memory cell?"

[...Harrow's answer...]

"Ok, can you at least tell me how DRAM memory cell works?"

[...Harrow's answer...]

"Moving on, why would one choose a power generation using the relative motion of conductors and fluxes instead of the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance?"

[...Harrow's answer...]

"So did you actually prepare for the interview at all, or did you think you can just wing it?"

"Actually, I thought I was going to be interviewed by somebody who knows at least a little bit about hardware.  Do you have anyone like that here?"
-Harrow.
"So what technique did you use to tie the onion to your belt? The big yellow ones don't have anything to tie the string to, and you're not going to be able to pierce the onion without discombobulating the proformisationals, and if that happens you'll catch nirdle blight. So, your technique was ... ?"

You just do it.

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

C-Octothorpe:
Anon:
I would have commented earlier, but I was pursuing commenting opportunities on other websites.

We'll beat you to death if you visit other websites. What are you doing, wasting our time...

FTFY

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

Harrow:
"That question reminds me of the time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville; I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war; the only thing you could get was those big yellow ones."

We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere.

The single best Simpsons episode ever. 4:17 'Last Exit to Springfield'

2011-04-20 Reply Admin

Charles:
Never in my life, before or since, have I received such a tirade of abuse at the declination of the position. Apparently, I was throwing away my career and giving up the opportunity of a lifetime.
I can top that. My first ever job was as a dishwasher in a small cafe, owned by a fat slob whose business skills topped out at paying the vendors from the cash register and calculating his success by peering in the drawer at the end of each day. As it turned out, he paid employees only when there was "enough" left over, and there was a pecking order: cook first, waitresses second, dishwasher last.
Oddly there never seemed to be "enough" for the dishwasher. But -- "tomorrow will be better".

Naive as I was, I took it for a little while. But on the morning of the last day of my fourth week, I decided that was enough. "Pay me now -- right NOW -- or I quit."

"Quit! You little ! After all I've done for you! I took a chance and gave you a job when you had no experience and all you want to do is f me in the a and kick me in the b**!"

Yeah. So I quit, went back to school, and now I make enough that if I ever find the guy I'm thinking of hiring him to wash my dishes.

Had the same once (Was a cashier in a cafe).

He gave the same old tirade of abuse, and refused to pay me.

I went back to the shop with a baseball bat.

I got paid.

Captcha: vulputate. This could mean many things, all of which sound nasty.

dkf · 2011-04-20 Reply Admin

csrster:
Wouldn't it be easier just to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?

Not without a good neutrino coupler, and they don't exactly grow on trees.

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