The Third Degree - actionisforlosers

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(09-15-2012 11:52 PM)Berry Wrote:  How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday?

84% of them. It's a Friday, so they are definitely not doing any work.

(09-15-2012 11:52 PM)Berry Wrote:  If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?

I guess I would measure them. With the internet and computers available, it shouldn't be very difficult to gather information on the average height of people from everywhere.

(09-15-2012 11:52 PM)Berry Wrote:  What do you think of garden gnomes?

In general, they are fairly awesome. The only exception that comes to mind is that bastard from Half-Life 2. If he would wear a freaking seat-belt once in a while then it wouldn't be bad, but he just HAS to live a dangerous life.

(09-15-2012 11:52 PM)Berry Wrote:  Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?

Probably. He was educated in law, so I'm sure he could have done the work, and he was decent in arithmetic, which is the most important part of software engineering (at least from my point of view). Also, he had terrible handwriting, which fits with software engineers.

(09-15-2012 11:52 PM)Berry Wrote:  If you could be #1 employee but have all your coworkers dislike you or you could be #15 employee and have all your coworkers like you, which would you choose?

All my coworkers like me, definitely. Working somewhere where the coworkers like you and enjoy talking to you makes the job so much more enjoyable. The only exception would be if the company only had 15 employees (or a close, small number), since then I would be first on the chopping block.

(09-15-2012 11:52 PM)Berry Wrote:  Given 20 ‘destructible’ light bulbs (which breaks at certain height), and a building with 100 floors, how do you determine the height that the light bulb breaks?

I assume there is a tool that can be used to judge the height that someone is at. Simply go up the building with a lightbulb in hand and the tool in the other, and see where the lightbulb breaks.

(09-15-2012 11:52 PM)Berry Wrote:  Name 5 uses of a stapler without staple pins.

1. Weapon: You could definitely beat somebody with a stapler.
2. Paperweight: There are some fairly heavy staplers.
3. Hanging paper holder: Since it closes itself with the spring, you could hold a piece of paper with it. While holding it, the stapler could probably be held by a magnet, or alternatively, hang it like a hangar since it is open.
4. Key: Locked out of your house? Throw a stapler through the window!
5. Annoying people: Staplers can make a fairly annoying sound if repeatedly opened and snapped close.

(09-15-2012 11:52 PM)Berry Wrote:  If you were a Microsoft Office program, which one would you be?

Probably Excel? I'm a mathematical person, and Excel is definitely a math program at heart. But in addition, you can make pixel art out of excel, and I can be creative as well.

(09-15-2012 11:52 PM)Berry Wrote:  You’re in a row boat, which is in a large tank filled with water. You have an anchor on board, which you throw overboard (the chain is long enough so the anchor rests completely on the bottom of the tank). Does the water level in the tank rise or fall?

Without thinking into it too far, my guess would be yes, IF the anchor was not submerged by the water. The anchor going into the water would displace a small amount of water, but a small amount of water is still some water.