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Totally amazing hack: Use an elevator without stopping
- noelchurchill 16y agoI'll definitely try this tomorrow morning at work. It would be great if it works on the way down as we're on the top floor!
- dekz 16y agoI'm going to try this in about 5 minutes, hopefully I will have phone reception in the elevator to update if I get stuck.
- dotBen 16y agoI remember when this was a meme back in 2005 (http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2005/08/elevator-hacks/ http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2005/08/elevator-hacks/) I guess it's time for it to go round again for the next generation!
- ryanto 16y agoComing from someone who spends a lot of time in Hotels... This hack works in _very_ few elevators.
- irons 16y agoSeems like only a few hours ago that http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883748 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883748 was asserting that the door-closing button in most elevators is a no-op.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoIf this worked and everyone did it, elevator throughput would plummet and you would wait a lot longer when calling one. Tragedy of the commons: why we can't have nice things.
- locopati 16y agobecause your couple of extra minutes are more important than everyone else's who may be waiting - same type of problem as the people who hold subway doors delaying hundreds for the sake of a few