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Elevator Saga The elevator programming game

lkbm: I haven't played this since probably around 2015, but I think about it regularly. I want there to be more programming games like this, but have yet to come up with any ideas as perfect as this one.

kilroy123: I remember playing this ~10 years ago. It was very humbling.

nathannaveen: I love this, but I have also been having a lot of fun with https://www.codingame.com/

Twirrim: When I was at AWS over a decade ago, there was endless complaints about the elevator algorithms by engineers, with the usual egotistical tech-bro insistence that they could do better. Things used to really suck at lunchtime when folks would flood to the elevators and be stuck waiting for ages. Those same geniuses could never figure out the benefit of staggering lunch times.Someone got really tired of it, and somehow organised a hackathon weekend, with the elevator company, and let teams of engineers have at it.Every single team failed to come up with better algorithms. All the complaints stopped dead.

pklausler: Is AWS an environment where attempts to discover improvements are commonly mocked?

tstrimple: I don't think the disdain was for seeking improvements. It was for the techbros thinking they can solve any problem, even in domains they have never worked in, better than anyone actually working in said domain.

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