Comment by ninkendo

> I thought this was going to be easy, and failed after not realizing what I was up against. At the time I didn't even know what I didn't know

This reminds me of high school ~25 years ago when I just started learning TI-Basic on my calculator and was dabbling in VB6 on my PC, and I was flipping burgers at Steak n Shake as my part time job. The manager moaned about how hard it was to write the employee schedules out each week (taking into account requested days off, etc) and I thought “ooh, I know how to write software now, I’ll make a scheduling program!” I told the manager I bet I could do it.

… it took a very short time for 16 year old me to realize writing scheduling software to solve for various constraints is pretty damned hard. I never brought it up after that.