Programming competition

It has been about 10 years since I competed in a computing competition and couldn't resist the opportunity when Infusion decided to kick one off this past weekend. I managed to have a few answers accepted which was good. I also managed to keep focused on one thing for 5 hours which rarely happens these days and was somewhat refreshing. Did I win? Definitely not, though I did remind myself how it feels to be under pressure to solve logic problems and the winning feeling when the answer is accepted. That winning feeling is something that on my current engagements can take weeks or months to savor.

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