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as evidenced by a lot of the people in this thread, the first few answers may seem obvious in hindsight but 1. they need to warm people up for the puzzle, 2. ev
by daleharvey 16y ago
as evidenced by a lot of the people in this thread, the first few answers may seem obvious in hindsight but 1. they need to warm people up for the puzzle, 2. everything seems obvious in hindsight, its very easy for smart people miss simple thing.
calling them idiots for making the first few questions easier and for using asp is miles away from what I see hacker news as, bit sad to see this upvoted.
- jasonlotito 16y agoIndeed, I'm on 14 at the moment, and having a blast with this. Some really interesting riddles.
- rayb0t 16y agoI am stuck on this one (14), atm.
- Retric 16y agoThanks, that's what I was looking for they are riddles and not puzzles. With programming for any given puzzle there are thousands of equally valid solutions. However, a riddle has only one fairly arbitrary solution. EX: I am thinking of a sweet number between 1 and 10. What is it? A: It's pie! Get it because it's a sweet number...
- jbarciauskas 16y agoLeaving aside the name-calling, I agree with the sentiment that this is pretty lame. At the point where I had to find a morse code lookup sheet I gave up (although maybe that's a red herring?) anyway I don't care enough to find out. When you call something the "toughest developer puzzle ever" you're setting people up to be disappointed and critical. I was expecting something more like this (which I think is a joke but you get the idea) http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Puzzles#the_hardest_interview_puzzle_question_ever http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Puzzles#the_hardest_interview_puzzl...
- astrodust 16y agoI was being semi-sarcastic. I'm often at a complete loss as to why people expose .aspx, .php, .cfm, .cgi or even .html on their pages. It causes enormous amounts of trouble later when you switch engines. Go naked! In Apache you can hide all this simply by enabling MultiViews. Super easy. Then later if you switch from .html to .php, nobody will be the wiser and all your old pageranked pages will still work.