I Have Been Stuck On This For More Then A Hour Can Someone Help

You are stuck in an elevator with 10 people for 24 hours and your phone is on 1% battery. What do you do to entertain yourself?

I would almost definitely pass out within 15–20 minutes. I am rather claustrophobic and the longer I stay in such an enclosed space, the less likely I am to survive it. Even if my phone had infinite battery life, I doubt I’d really survive it.If I know that an elevator doesn’t have round-the-clock support, I don’t use it. I’m fit enough to climb 20–30 floors if required and feel more or less ok. So I would use that.In fact, the elevator at my apartment is pretty dodgy so any time our guard isn’t on duty or is asleep, I just walk up the 4 floors to my place, and I almost always walk down the four floors at any time of the day (mostly because I don’t know if the guard is on hand or not).So I would not survive the 24 hours in an elevator. Hopefully I’d just pass out and remain passed out till someone had extricated us from that scenario. If that doesn’t happen, it would dissuade me from ever taking an elevator again.Of course, I’d attempt to rationalise the situation, find a way out, strike up a conversation etc. But I know, from past experiences, that this won’t even last 20 minutes.It doesn’t help that there are 10 people, either. If there were one or two I’d still feel like I have some space to breathe. But with 10 people, I’d probably collapse within the half hour after sweating profusely and struggling to breathe.

Have you ever been stuck in a traffic jam for more than 3 hours? If so,what had you done to kill your boredom during that time?

Yes, stuck in the line for the ferry at rush hour. I meditate some, get into “drivers trance,” then turn on the creativity-firehose and start writing down the secrets of the universe! Aa. Aaaa. The nearfield zone of superconductive resonators makes my neck-hairs stand up, and a giant exclamation point appears over my head, so maybe the fields in the nearfield propagate superliminal signals, but only if we physically disturb the material of the resonator (so, amplifier pulses won’t do it!) In that case a double-resonant radio transformer could communicate faster than ns/foot speeds, if the two coils are a hundred feet apart! But how can we ever defeat the signal-noise problem of widely-separated transformer coils? Oo, oo, FM radio, perhaps with mechanical capacitor wobbulators synched together!!! Dunk the entire thing in liquid helium! I gotta get home and look all this up on google ASAP: are their any superliminal phenomena reported with nearfield electromagnetism, especially with lossless supercon? The wavefront of all EM waves is full of entangled photons, so the same is certainly true of the dynamically changing fields surrounding any electrically-short oscillator! But maybe this is all traffic-jam mania, and I haven’t just become the first discoverer of the key to Star Trek Subspace Radio. Last time is was transparent aluminum (and I’m scared to test the idea because IT MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK!) Did you know that on the TV series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” the original submarine Seaview was supposed to be entirely transparent, where they had to paint gray any parts they wanted to be opaque? It was made from Admiral Nelson’s billion-dollar discovery, cross-tempered Herculite, one of the fictional Ultra-materials, along with nazi flying-saucer hull Viktrolon and Marvel Comics adamantium. Admiral Nelson was just Jaques Cousteau writ large: the billions from a single patented invention paying for a large personal yacht. Star Trek transparent aluminum and Larry Niven’s puppeteer hull number three is just latecomer plagiarism.See? There’s just not enough hours in the day. I NEED MORE traffic jam down time so I can come up with fifty stupid ideas and one good one. Instead, I go and publicize the secret physics of traffic nonlinearity, not realizing that everyone just goes out and evaporates all my most favorite Seattle I-5 jams! Waaa!

What do you do when you are stuck on a coding problem ( > 4 hours or so,) how do you remove very discouraging obstacles and keep your chin up, despite the difficulties?

There are 5 types of code problems. you don't know how to test it and don't know about it as a result (tests pass)you have a bad test that is concealing a problem (tests pass)an algorithm is wrong (test fail)you don't know how to address a component that you are using and it doesn't do what you expect as a result (tests fail) you have a configuration problem that means that components are not working together properly (tests fail) ...of which the only serious issues are the first two and the last one, because : if you don't know about it it's going to make it to production and some poor bastard who isn't you is going to have to sort it out, orconfiguration issues are a nightmare. It is quite possible that no one has tried to make thing x play with thing y and thing z before, they are interacting with issues one and two in my list and you don't understand anything about them. This is bad bad bad, and you need help help help. So, to deal with anything but the last one—go get a shower, eat, sleep and get back and sort it. If it's the last one, post on forums, email people, beg friends for help. In the worst case, find an alternative bag of things to do what you are trying to do and make them work. Of course, if this is happening late in your project that may not be on, hence the need to prove key feasibility's early—you will sleep well if you do, you will sleep well if you don't and you are an idiot. Sleep tight :)