anyone see the Stormy Daniels interview with Anderson Cooper?

(let me know if this is not a good chat room to discuss that interview, I can gladly stop, or go to Politics SE, if that would be better.)

So, a horse walks into a bar....

@Snow Does he have a long face?

Sigh. That was my only joke.

What goes black, white, black, white, black, white, splat, red?

a frog on a zebra crossing

That's a good one, but not for this one. It's a penguin rolling down a hill and then hitting a brick wall

What's a pirate's favourite letter?

O. Because it's a piece of an 8.

@Snow a man walks into a bar with a set of jumper cables around his neck. The bartender gives him a cold hard stare and says "Okay, you can come in, but you'd better not start anything!"

How many programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

@Draken that sounds more like a hardware issue ;)

:)

@Draken do you know how many psychiatrists it takes to change a lightbulb?

How many Project Managers does it take to change a lightbulb?

@Snow how many?

None, they're best left in the dark...

@RichardU No idea, how many?

@Draken It takes just one psychiatrist to change a light bulb, but it has to realty WANT to change.

How many developers does it take to change a lightbulb?

@Snow dunno, how many does it take?

None. It works on MY machine...

An Englishman, Irishman and a Scotsman are walking through a forest one day, when they come across a slide. The approach the slide and a genie appears before them. The genie says, "Welcome travellers, you have found my magical slide. You get to go down it once and whatever word you shout will appear at the bottom of the slide." The Englishman goes first, he climbs to the top of the slide and on the way day, he shouts out, "GOLD!".

:D

At the bottom of the slide, waiting for him are piles of gold. He's rich beyond his dreams. The Scotsman goes next, during his ride down, he shouts, "PLATINUM!" and at the bottom he finds the rare metal. He's also incredibly wealthy. The Irishman goes last, he climbs to the top of the slide, jumps down it and shouts, "WHEEEEEEE!"

@RichardU Does that joke work in American English? I can't remember

@Draken yes, it does. Although, in the American version, the last person usually trips and says "OH SH*T!"

Final joke of the day from me, how do you sink an Irish submarine?

@Draken put it in water?

@Draken leave the screen doors open?

@RichardU You knock on the door

:D

Can I send a thank you note to an interviewer through Skype? What if they seem to be idle all the time?

@NotThatGuy Er, no. Sending a thank you through Skype as opposed to email would be the equivalent of sending a thank you note to a person's home address as opposed to their work address. It will be seen as intrusive.

If I already asked the HR person to forward my thank you note for one interview, would it be weird to ask them to do so again for the next one?

@NotThatGuy no.

The interview was via Skype, for what it's worth.

That's a bit different, they probably have Skype for business, so should be fine

@Draken I'm not so sure. I'd be a bit put off if someone did that to me.

It's trying to work out if it's their personal account or not. What's the email associated with the Skype username?

@Draken You can't see someone's email address given their Skype name, can you?

@RichardU My missus uses Skype for business, it's a separate part of Skype that she can only use at work. She also has her own personal account at home. So it depends on if this Skype account was created for business purposes or not

A recruiter would use the consumer version of Skype. To use Skype for Business, you both need to be running Skype for Business. It's easier to use the free kind.

@Draken I understand that. It would still make me uncomfortable to get a Skype message from an interviewee rather than an email.

Personally, I'd thank the interviewer at the end of the actual interview. Sending a note afterwards just seems a little predatory to me.

I'm very conservative in my approach to things. I'd prefer an actual letter to an email and an email to a PM. Something about a PM, even through Skype, rubs me the wrong way.

@Snow only 2% of people send followup notes. I always advise to send one.

I know that in my case, I would certainly give more weight to the candidate that sent a note.

@Snow Well, I do have some follow-up notes regarding what we talked about, it's not just "hey, thanks for the interview".

Then send to the email address associated with the Skype account.

@NotThatGuy that is the right approach to a followup/thank you note.

@Snow As we've discovered earlier, NotThatGuy might not have the recruiter's email as the Skype profile doesn't show it

If a brief Skype message goes unanswered, then there's not much else that can happen.

Unless internet stalking is part of your particular set of skills.

@Draken then he should send an email to HR asking them to forward it to the person.

Wow. for the first time in over 10 days, I get more than 100 reps.

@Snow it has been slow, plus we've gotten a spate of bad questions.

I even answered a question on Aviation this afternoon.

I think I might've screwed up the interview because the interviewer interrupted me while I was (probably badly) explaining my elegant idea in favour of pushing me towards a more complex solution.

I'm not quite sure how to handle interviewers who try too hard to help me and end up just hand-holding me towards an answer (or just giving the answer) instead of letting me present the answer I already know.

It's a good sign that they're engaging with you and not simply running through the list of questions.

In terms of what working there might look like? Maybe (or maybe not, if I'm going to have a hard time presenting my thoughts in my job too). But not being able to demonstrate that I'm capable does significantly reduce the chances of being given an offer to work there.

Currently, I am finding myself locked in a fierce battle between myself trying to design more foolproof tools, and the universe's efforts to create more ingenious fools.

If you can find a way of charging fools to make things foolproof, then you'll be a rich man.

@Snow humanity is amazing for both it's ability to reason and it's disinclination to do so.

I'm a reasonable man.

@Snow a rare breed indeed.

Only if you don't ask me for anything.

@Snow sounds reasonable :)

It looks like there's another bounty out there that's begging to be won.

Misphonia is getting more and more common these days.

@Snow I think it's just people fed up of everyone else. There are people out there with it, however I feel this might be like the gluten diet thing. Those complaining the most probably don't actually suffer from it

And the rest are left to the echo chamber of unmoderated mayhem. Its troll bait, and its functional skunkworks.

@RichardU Its not just here, its all across social media it seems the last week has been very tense and snipey.

maybe thats why my anxiety has been so bad. Or maybe im imagining things

@IDrinkandIKnowThings no, you're not imagining things. last week, I almost admitted myself to the psychiatric ward. It's getting so bad that I'm quitting social media

@RichardU Its not paranoia if the sky really is about to fall?

@IDrinkandIKnowThings you and I both have pattern recognition. We see it coming

So seriously asking? Do I bother to shout to a warning?

@IDrinkandIKnowThings Someone proposed something like that for Stack Overflow at some point. Stack Overflow seems to mostly be people bugging each other these days - people go there and bug some users with their no-attempt homework, and those users close the question, bugging the askers and everyone who wants to answer it, and the answerers bug the people who want to close it, either by answering it or disagreeing with the closure. Bug, bug, cockroach... I mean bug.

@IDrinkandIKnowThings You can try

@RichardU I can see that its about to tip over but I am not sure which direction its going to fall though.

I suspect its going to shake a little bit before we can figure it out

@D.Hutchinson What is your question, Sir?