On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer mig

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Sorry, mate, but this rose to this level for me. It's someone who's obviously been faced with the possibility (indeed, having stayed at three hotels that have been bombed) and came up with a solid plan to work his way out of it. Interesting and hacker-worthy, to me at least. Plus, he didn't say high floors. The height constraint is very specifically laid out, including considering how good the local fire department might be. Having watched a bakery fire in Ecuador's second largest city and then watched a pickup truck with a 12 foot wooden ladder show up, his reasoning immediately resonated with me.