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Wouldn't it be awesome to work for Google? Because you wouldn't *have* to explain what you do-- everyone knows what Google is and would just be awed that you actually work there!
If I get so much as an interview I'll buy my entire family "I'm Feeling Lucky" boxers for Christmas.
erm, what would it take to get you to forget you signed an NDA? a G5 perhaps? ;)
I think toolman said much the same ...no wait, he said Jingly ...my mistake.
Good luck, DL.
Now that made me laugh out loud.
Mostly I just think it would be awesome to be proud of where I worked. I mean, say what you want about Google, but they're famous and not for testing their products on puppies or supporting child-labor sweatshops or funding the election campaigns of whackjobs or telemarketing or anything like that.
Well, not that *I* know of, anyway.
shall we test? ;)
A rooster is sitting atop a symmetrically tilted roof, one slant facing east, one slant facing west. Given the time of day as 5:45am, and the implicit safety of the egg, which side of the roof will the rooster lay its egg on?
A rooster is sitting atop a symmetrically tilted roof, one slant facing east, one slant facing west. Given the time of day as 5:45am, and the implicit safety of the egg, which side of the roof will the rooster lay its egg on?
42?
(but of course, we both know you're right)
Not so certain. I think the key element here is 'egg'. So what do you eat with eggs? That's right, SPAM. So the answer would be PR 0.
You have to boil a single egg for exactly nine minutes.
All you have are two hourglasses, able to precisely measure in sand seven and four minutes, respectively.
How quickly using only these two hourglasses can you boil with the egg?
Google NEEDS toolman. Badly. If they only knew it, they'd recruit him. And offer him free pedicures to entice him. They'd get him no matter what it would take.
toolman is the cat's meow.
Now, THAT is scary.
using only these two hourglasses
methinks you might even want some water and heat, no?
(so, the answer is the ascii symbol for infinity, which i cannot recall?)
[edited by: Fiver at 2:36 pm (utc) on Aug. 29, 2003]
You have to boil a single egg for exactly nine minutes.
All you have are two hourglasses, able to precisely measure in sand seven and four minutes, respectively.
How quickly using only these two hourglasses can you boil with the egg?
If you need to boil it for exactly nine minutes then that's how quickly.
Er... 42?
I'm detecting an aura of Foo in this thread. Hmm...
it seems as though we'll have to up the ante then hmm?
A runner attempts to run 100 meters, sadly part way down the track the runner realizes that to complete his mission he will first have to cross the half way mark, the 50m mark. This bothers him very little until he actually does, and realizes that he must, again, cross the half way mark between the the 50m mark and the goal.
at this point the runner stops dead in his run, realizing the the total pointlessness of running at all, as he'll never reach his goal, if he needs to cross an infinite number of half way marks before arriving.
how does the runner complete his goal? without calculus?
any answer involving asymptotes shan't satisfy me.
BTW: Freelance is so much more fun than being corporate, i can tell. But good luck anyway :)
added:
>> runner
- that's not even a riddle. It's a runner, not a philosopher, no problem.
[edited by: claus at 3:49 pm (utc) on Aug. 29, 2003]
I don't think that paradox has ever been solved completely. Have a look here: [plato.stanford.edu...]
>Freelance is so much more fun than being corporate, i can tell
So I hear. And so I'd decided to start out being a freelancer. I still want to try it (in fact, if anyone needs any writing done...) but y'know, it's Google. I just GOTTA try it out.
If the runner is me, she says forget about running and goes down to the pub.
you'll find you have the same problem lifting the pint from its place on the bar and attempting to have it reach your mouth.
my solution is to have adjustable goals, and then readjust them back to the point where they're already met, after you've past them.
it's kind of like the secret to happiness that calvin of calvin and hobbes sussed out: lower your standards to the point where they're already met.
have the answers to most of life's problems, if you read them.
Good stuff.
have the answers to most of life's problems, if you read them.
Good stuff.
i would agree, but I was never fully satisfied by the fact that calvin failed to have his most prominent question answered, that being:
"is the secret to happiness, money, women and power? or just money and power?"
/thinks he got that right.
Well, if you don't want to turn a partly empty hourglass in the middle, it will take longer. But starting with two fully-charged hourglasses, it only takes nine minutes.
t=0: start both hourglasses and the egg.
t=4: H#4 runs out. Flip it.
t=7: H#7 runs out. Flip it.
t=8: H#4 runs out again. Flip H#7, which now has 1 minute in the top.
t=9: H#7 runs out. Eat the egg.
That was too easy, so I'm wondering if you're perhaps not allowed to flip hourglasses in the middle. So, starting both timers and flipping each one when it runs out, you can start the egg after 12 minutes (3 * H4) and end it after 21 (3 * H7) or you can start it after 7 minutes (duh) and end after 16 minutes (4 * H4). There are no other interesting possibilities.
I just thought I'd update to say I never heard back from Google, so I guess it wasn't me.
I think I should've taken out an Adwords ad that said "Hire me, Google!" and had compelling copy, since that would be relevant.
Perhaps I should...
