OT Rant, Job interview questions from PC hell

[Andy Hall]

It still is..... :-(

[Huge]

Xeno's paradox.

What happens when the jumps reach the Planck length?

[Andy Hall]

Yes and no. That depends on whether it's a buyer's or a seller's market.

[Mike Halmarack]

Of course but I was thinking in terms of the Mike Halmaracks of this world not the Andy Halls.

[Andy Hall]

One should always be a seller......

[Mike Halmarack]

The other one a buyer?

[Andy Hall]

Absolutely.

[The Medway Handyman]

I always liked the "why do you want to leave your current job?" I'd answer and then ask "why did the person who left and created this vacancy leave you?"

[John Rumm]

Does he actually move each time he jumps?

In the answer is yes, then he does reach the edge. The last few hops may be quantum leaps though.

[Andrew Gabriel]

No, and I'd be completely useless at it anyway...

[Owain]

I don't know the answer to this, but eventually wouldn't the length of the remaining distance become shorter than the length of the frog, and he could just step the final bit?

Owain

[Bob Eager]

I'm just wondering how he walks on water in between each hop? Or does he think he's Tony Blair?

[Mike Barnes]

Lrf, ol fjvzzvat?

This is not at all like the situation of a different frog treading water in the precise centre of a different circular pond. On the edge is a cat that can run four times as fast as the frog can swim. If the frog reaches any point on the edge without the cat having got there first, it can jump away faster than the cat can run.

The frog needs a plan which allows it to swim to the edge and hop away without the cat getting it, regardless of how smart or psychic the cat is. No tricks.

Can you devise a plan?

[Mike Barnes]

For anyone that would like to see an answer (not the only possible answer, I'm sure):

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[The Natural Philosopher]

But each step is always smaller then the last, In an analog world he gets there after an infinite number of hops. In a digital world he stops one bit away from the end and says 'half a bit, half a bit, half a bit onward: Into te valley of irrationality hopped the batrachian' etc.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Is it Schroedingers cat? If so a quick blast of radioactive nuclei should reduce his probability somewhat.

[Piers James]

By HR, I assume, of course, that you mean Personnel??

SNIP

[Andy Hall]

No, I mean HR. If I had meant Personnel, I would have said Personnel.

[Andy Hall]

Yes he does.

Infinite number of hops for poor old Trevor.

[Andy Hall]

That would be cheating, and Trevor would never do that.