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Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by arthur_pryor on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @08:39PM (#10891751)
so are you saying that, similar to the elevator programming challenge itself, writing the elevator programming challenge was more difficult than it looked?

cool. that probably put a bigger smile on my face than it should've, but still cool.

Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by mshang0 on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:37PM (#10891998)
Yeah, but that can't be surprising. Software estimation is hard.
Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by arthur_pryor on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:40PM (#10897755)
indeed it is. i think i'm especially bad at it, but a lot of people probably feel that way.