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Interviewer: since you have experience working with wood, show us how you would implement photosynthesis on this whiteboard... Or Interviewer: what's the most

Interviewer: since you have experience working with wood, show us how you would implement photosynthesis on this whiteboard... Or Interviewer: what's the most popular kind of wood right now? Exactly. We're putting together a team to make a sink using it. In the second phase we will use wood to build a toilet. Interested? Or Interviewer: A carpenter? We were looking more for a mahogany-scientist or a pine-wizard. Are you even a spruce-ninja? These are too easy :p

noway421 9y ago
> what's the most popular kind of wood right now? Exactly. We're putting together a team to make a sink using it. In the second phase we will use wood to build a toilet. Interested? that's actually kinda fun!
- logicallee 9y ago
  >> what's the most popular kind of wood right now? Exactly. We're putting together a team to make a sink using it. In the second phase we will use wood to build a toilet. Interested? >that's actually kinda fun! (years later) ... and that's how I ended up installing toilets in exchange for equity.
  - rdiddly 9y ago
    They make boats out of it, so why not? Slap some marine enamel or polyurethane on that terlet! Or use pitch for that old-time feel.
    - quuquuquu 9y ago
      Who will pay for such a toilet? Will the price they pay be higher than the cost to build it?
  - pdimitar 9y ago
    > (years later) ... and that's how I ended up installing toilets in exchange for equity. Holy crap, "intalling toilets" hits too close to home as an analogy. Happens way too often.
bane 9y ago
Please draw the molecular diagram for Cellulose. What if the requirements were a 20% increase in cellular wall strength? Design a new polysaccharide that fulfills this requirement. Select a plant, how would you modify the genome of that plant to begin producing this new cell wall. Given this sequence of basepairs, compute the resulting protein that may be expressed from this sequence. Suppose Xylem was no longer an accepted technical solution, how would you move water from the roots to the leaves of a tree using only things the tree could grow, and the sun? Compute the maximize tree size using your new method and design a plan for implementation in 3 generations of selective breeding. Show on the whiteboard the for producing ammonia-based fertilizers at industrial scales, use the Odda process instead of the Haber one. How can you prevent ammonium nitrate from entering a tetragonal crystaline state at 84.2C? Design a table saw that uses a linear electric motor instead of a rotary motor, assume a 7.3V 5A input source. If we wanted the saw blade to turn at 7300rpm, what gearing ratio would you use in the 3rd translational gear? Compute the lorentz forces on the components and show the resulting torque in an assumed ideal zero gravity environment. Diagram out all vectors on the whiteboard.
- rdiddly 9y ago
  Wow, as an analogy this is brutally accurate. And suddenly I realize the answer to all 5 questions is "Fuck off, next question" which is why it's essential that I never have less than a year's salary in the bank.
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noway421 9y ago

> what's the most popular kind of wood right now? Exactly. We're putting together a team to make a sink using it. In the second phase we will use wood to build a toilet. Interested? that's actually kinda fun!

logicallee 9y ago
>> what's the most popular kind of wood right now? Exactly. We're putting together a team to make a sink using it. In the second phase we will use wood to build a toilet. Interested? >that's actually kinda fun! (years later) ... and that's how I ended up installing toilets in exchange for equity.
- rdiddly 9y ago
  They make boats out of it, so why not? Slap some marine enamel or polyurethane on that terlet! Or use pitch for that old-time feel.
  - quuquuquu 9y ago
    Who will pay for such a toilet? Will the price they pay be higher than the cost to build it?
- pdimitar 9y ago
  > (years later) ... and that's how I ended up installing toilets in exchange for equity. Holy crap, "intalling toilets" hits too close to home as an analogy. Happens way too often.

bane 9y ago

Please draw the molecular diagram for Cellulose. What if the requirements were a 20% increase in cellular wall strength? Design a new polysaccharide that fulfills this requirement. Select a plant, how would you modify the genome of that plant to begin producing this new cell wall. Given this sequence of basepairs, compute the resulting protein that may be expressed from this sequence. Suppose Xylem was no longer an accepted technical solution, how would you move water from the roots to the leaves of a tree using only things the tree could grow, and the sun? Compute the maximize tree size using your new method and design a plan for implementation in 3 generations of selective breeding. Show on the whiteboard the for producing ammonia-based fertilizers at industrial scales, use the Odda process instead of the Haber one. How can you prevent ammonium nitrate from entering a tetragonal crystaline state at 84.2C? Design a table saw that uses a linear electric motor instead of a rotary motor, assume a 7.3V 5A input source. If we wanted the saw blade to turn at 7300rpm, what gearing ratio would you use in the 3rd translational gear? Compute the lorentz forces on the components and show the resulting torque in an assumed ideal zero gravity environment. Diagram out all vectors on the whiteboard.

rdiddly 9y ago
Wow, as an analogy this is brutally accurate. And suddenly I realize the answer to all 5 questions is "Fuck off, next question" which is why it's essential that I never have less than a year's salary in the bank.
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