https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Commarchinin&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T05:32:57ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1282:_Monty_Hall&diff=51163Talk:1282: Monty Hall2013-10-25T04:18:16Z<p>Commarchinin: </p>
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<div>Monty hall. Is this a Monty Python reference? Or something related to a skit of theirs'?<br />
--[[User:Commarchinin|Commarchinin]] ([[User talk:Commarchinin|talk]]) 04:18, 25 October 2013 (UTC)</div>Commarchininhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1282:_Monty_Hall&diff=51162Talk:1282: Monty Hall2013-10-25T04:17:40Z<p>Commarchinin: Created page with "Monty hall. Is this a Monty Python reference? Or something related to a skit of theirs'? ----"</p>
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<div>Monty hall. Is this a Monty Python reference? Or something related to a skit of theirs'?<br />
----</div>Commarchininhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=241:_Battle_Room&diff=48223241: Battle Room2013-08-31T09:39:01Z<p>Commarchinin: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 241<br />
| date = March 28, 2007<br />
| title = Battle Room<br />
| image = battle_room.png<br />
| titletext = Bean actually sabotaged it just to give Dink the excuse to make that joke.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Not bad, but does need a review.}}<br />
The book {{w|Ender's Game}} by {{w|Orson Scott Card}} is about Ender Wiggin, a boy of above-average-intelligence which means he is recruited to be trained to be one of the commander's of Earth's "Defense" Fleet should the {{w|Formics|Buggers}} invade again (future books renamed the Buggers to the Formics, to be more politically correct, and also the British consider Bugger to be a swear word). Ender is taken to a space school called Battle School. At the center of Battle School is the Battle Room, that all the training revolves (literally and figuratively) around.<br />
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The Battle room is described as a hollow perfect cube. "Stars" (smaller cubes) can be pulled from the walls (without changing the shape, more stars come in to fill the space where the old one was) and can be used as obstacles in the Battle Room as they will remain absolutely stationary, no matter what force is exerted on them. There is no gravity in the Battle Room. Most squads entering the Battle Room keep their orientation from the hallway (gravity in the hallway dictates where "down" is in the Room). Ender realizes that because the room is a perfect cube, and that even the entrances, called "gates", are perfect squares and do not give any hint about which direction is up or down, that keeping that orientation is useless. He instructs his squad to orient so that the enemy's gate is down, a line of lateral thinking that gives his team three big advantages (smaller targets, "shielding" themselves with their own feet, and unprecedented angles of attack) and leads them to a perfect winning streak.<br />
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The joke here,as made by Dink, one of Ender's squad members,is that the enemy's gate is "down", as in broken.<br />
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The title text suggests that the enemy's gate was sabotaged by Bean,who is a friend of Ender's,for the sole reason of allowing Dink to make the joke.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[A scene is depicted from the Battle Room of the novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. The men are floating in a room with random cubes.]<br />
:Dink: Sorry, Ender — seems like there were some system crashes. The battle's gotta be cut short.<br />
:Ender: The lasers still work.<br />
:Dink: Yeah, but the enemy's gate is down.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Ender's Game]]</div>Commarchininhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=192:_Working_for_Google&diff=48222192: Working for Google2013-08-31T06:59:31Z<p>Commarchinin: /* Explanation */ Slight restructuring of part of the final paragraph.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 192<br />
| date = December 4, 2006<br />
| title = Working for Google<br />
| image = working for google.png<br />
| titletext = I hear once you've worked there for 256 days they teach you the secret of levitation.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Since the start of Google till now (2013), Google has offered its employees many benefits other jobs don't. [https://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/benefits/] Such as massages, toys, video games, free food, etc. This is to make their employees happy and not worrying about staying at work. So for many people a job at Google is the ultimate dream, but they hire only the top 1% of people in every field so there are many, many unsuccessful applicants.<br />
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In this comic Cueball's friend is exhibiting the attitude known as "sour grapes", which is immediately picked up by the other speaker, even though it's disguised as mistrust of major corporations. (Google, for its level of control over the flow of the world's information, is mistrusted by some people).<br />
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In the last frame it turns out that the friend has been trying very hard to get the job, even resorting to bribing the interview panel by baking them a cake. But he went too far - he tried to distinguish himself from the pack by making the cake relevant to Google's business, but it backfired spectacularly because in doing so he betrayed his complete lack of knowledge about the internet, thus destroying any slim chance he may have had of getting the job. (The internet, of course, is not a physical object and has no shape - although in response to this comic many people have tried to make something up which might fit.)<br />
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This comic is a highly accurate indication of why it's important to have a proper idea of your own ability when working in the IT industry. Resume padding will invariably be detected fairly quickly, and a reputation for lack of truthfulness can stick around all your life. (The exception of course is in companies where the IT managers aren't IT experts and can't tell good people from plausible liars - or bureaucratic companies where hiring is done further up the line by non-IT people. Both are like torture to a professed free thinker like Cueball's friend, which makes it a perfect form of poetic justice that those are the only positions a resume padder can expect to land.)<br />
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The title text is just a joke, saying that if you work for Google for 256 (2^8) days you get to learn how to levitate. This displays some of the mystique with which Google is commonly viewed.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Cueball: Have you read about Google HQ? It sounds like an incredible place to work.<br />
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:Friend: Man, I ain't going to be chained down in no corporate idea factory! They think just 'cause they've got a nice building and laid back culture, I'm gonna want to come in all day long and work on fascinating problems with the smartest people in the world.<br />
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:[Cueball stares at friend.]<br />
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:Cueball: So, what, they turned you down?<br />
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:Friend: I don't understand it! I even baked them a cake shaped like the internet!<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]</div>Commarchininhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:152:_Hamster_Ball&diff=48167Talk:152: Hamster Ball2013-08-30T13:31:42Z<p>Commarchinin: Explaining my edit</p>
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<div>Why does this explanation assume the Genie/Djinn is Jeannie from "I Dream Of Jeannie"? I see nothing to support that claim. [[Special:Contributions/192.208.44.88|192.208.44.88]] 19:53, 12 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
:This comic explain is still incomplete because of this inconsistencies. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:20, 12 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
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To me this is just a common Genie (as I've seen it in most US kids' stuff). Occasionally you see Djinn, Jinn, or Djinni. I think that's all there is to it. --[[User:Quicksilver|Quicksilver]] ([[User talk:Quicksilver|talk]]) 06:08, 24 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I edited the article to try to reflect the view that the Jeannie reference is unintended. Personally, I see no such reference, and suggest deleting the section. --[[User:Commarchinin|Commarchinin]] ([[User talk:Commarchinin|talk]]) 13:31, 30 August 2013 (UTC)</div>Commarchininhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=152:_Hamster_Ball&diff=48166152: Hamster Ball2013-08-30T13:28:59Z<p>Commarchinin: Clarifying the Jeannie/plain old Genie situation.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 152<br />
| date = September 3, 2006<br />
| title = Hamster Ball<br />
| image = hamster_ball.png<br />
| titletext = Reportedly, double-walled inflatable balls like this exist somewhere. Now to find that place.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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The comic starts with a Genie, or Jinn having been freed from a magical lamp granting the owner three wishes. <br />
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[[Cueball]] asks for a Human-Sized hamster ball, and when he gets it, he starts to roll around in it, obviously entertained.<br />
The genie then asks what he would like for his other two wishes, to which, having being granted already his heart's desire, he states he wouldn't need the other wishes for anything.<br />
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The genie may be a reference to the TV show character {{w|I Dream of Jeannie|Jeannie}}, however there seems to be little evidence of this and it seems more plausible this reference is unintended. <br />
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The title text refers to the activity of {{w|Zorbing}}.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball stands by a genie, whose lower body becomes smoke and trails down to an old-fashioned lamp.]<br />
:Genie: You have awakened me from the lamp. You may have three wishes. What does your heart desire?<br />
:Cueball: I'd like a human-sized hamster ball.<br />
:[A hamster ball appears; Cueball is inside it.]<br />
:Cueball: Sweet!<br />
:[Cueball steps to left; the ball rolls that way.]<br />
:[He does the same thing to his right.]<br />
:[Cueball comes to rest in the centre of the panel.]<br />
:Genie: And your other wishes?<br />
:Cueball: Why would I need other wishes?<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]</div>Commarchininhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Commarchinin&diff=48163User talk:Commarchinin2013-08-30T12:58:31Z<p>Commarchinin: Created page with "Welcome to my (Commarchinin's) "talk" page. Feel free to, well, talk."</p>
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<div>Welcome to my (Commarchinin's) "talk" page.<br />
Feel free to, well, talk.</div>Commarchininhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Commarchinin&diff=48162User:Commarchinin2013-08-30T12:56:46Z<p>Commarchinin: Hello World</p>
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<div>Hello World<br />
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--[[User:Commarchinin|Commarchinin]] ([[User talk:Commarchinin|talk]]) 12:56, 30 August 2013 (UTC)</div>Commarchininhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:114:_Computational_Linguists&diff=48161Talk:114: Computational Linguists2013-08-30T12:44:59Z<p>Commarchinin: Answering a question</p>
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<div>Why {{w|Ryan North}}? [[Special:Contributions/108.233.253.211|108.233.253.211]] 21:49, 8 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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First of all, Ryan North happened to specialize in computational linguistics in his masters degree. He was mentioned because he was a computational linguist. On a side note, Ryan North's father was called Randall (though he was not the Randall whose comics this wiki explains).<br />
This may have somehow influenced Ryan's name appearing on this list.--[[User:Commarchinin|Commarchinin]] ([[User talk:Commarchinin|talk]]) 12:44, 30 August 2013 (UTC)</div>Commarchinin