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Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview by Dove on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @06:17PM (#8332679)
he'll take one look at your 14 hour challenge and laugh

These things shouldn't be designed to take 14 hours. They should be designed to take one, maybe two or three . . . if you know what you're doing.

One of the other posters took so long because he didn't know what he was doing. Well, perhaps that is an uncharitable way to say it, but you know what I mean. :)

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Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview by vonmoltke on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @06:30PM (#8332725)
I once has one that was designed to take ~20 hours, and was given a week to do it. Needless to say, I didn't get that job.
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