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Why is this a worthwhile endeavour?

• jacquesm 17y ago
  It's not 'worthwhile' in a sense that you can't take it to the bank (though it may come to that, see elsewhere in this thread), but I think it is what hackers do, solve puzzles. This is effectively a puzzle, a reasonably hard one (my attempt failed, but not for lack of trying, I spent a fair number of hours on it before making my guesses, of course it could simply be that I'm stupid), and one that seems fun to solve. It is exactly the kind of thing that I enjoy doing when it comes to programming in the first place, figure out how stuff works and/or solving reasonably hard problems. One step above my current competence is my favorite, that way I'm reasonably sure I can solve the problem, if the difference is too big then I tend to get stuck. It's of course a bit like the question why people climb Mount Everest, the answers are: because they can and because it's there. edit: Funny, I thought your downmod for asking a valid question was unfair, in return I get downmodded for answering :)