{"id":191,"date":"2009-07-05T00:59:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T00:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/addicted-to-lame\/"},"modified":"2009-07-05T00:59:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T00:59:09","slug":"addicted-to-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/addicted-to-lame\/","title":{"rendered":"Addicted to lame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t come across <a href=\"http:\/\/jexed.com\/tdpe\/\">&#8220;The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever&#8221;<\/a> [sic] then give it a go. It&#8217;s by no means the toughest puzzle I&#8217;ve ever done, and some parts of it are embarrassingly lame, but it&#8217;s addictive and very frustrating. In fact I&#8217;ve pissed away the best part of my holiday weekend doing it. Give it a go if you have a geek gene and time to spare.<\/p>\n<p>The only tip I&#8217;ll give is to remember that this is written by .NET monkeys; if you find yourself doing anything even remotely complex in trying to answer the questions, you&#8217;re almost certainly on the wrong track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t come across &#8220;The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever&#8221; [sic] then give it a go. It&#8217;s by no means the toughest puzzle I&#8217;ve ever done, and some parts of it are embarrassingly lame, but it&#8217;s addictive and very frustrating. In fact I&#8217;ve pissed away the best part of my holiday weekend doing it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}