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I don't feel bad about letting the discussion continue as-is because of the fact that we completely expected to get the answer with only the information mention

I don't feel bad about letting the discussion continue as-is because of the fact that we completely expected to get the answer with only the information mentioned here. I still haven't heard this method mentioned yet directly. The "extra" information we got came later after we already started working on it, and came as surprise. It just happened to bring the result back sooner than the other approach.

danso 13y ago
Nah I like this approach...let us bumble around for awhile in the discussion...I'd be very surprised if no one on HN could surmise the solution, but I'll admit I'm stumped (though I've only thought about it for a few minutes before getting back to work)
niuzeta 13y ago
that the extra information brought the result back "sooner" is intriguing. If you don't mind me asking, would other approaches discussed here have brought the result nonetheless? or did they?
- philfreo 13y ago
  I'm pretty confident it would have, but we ultimately "stopped" it after getting the answer confirmed, so I can't say with 100%.
  - niuzeta 13y ago
    So you stumbled on a piece of information which proved useful, notwithstanding that you didn't intend to look for. If Justin observed correctly, you guys were very impressed with yourselves. Had you retrieved the answer by methods of which you were confident, you would've still been impressed, but not greatly.(I'm making a lapse conjecture here, of course) Since you were confident that you would be able to find her, prior to looking at the picture, according to the article, I don't think you were looking for any information in the picture other than for confirmation. However, some extra information in the picture(since it was taken very recently) enabled you to look further, which returned a result. Perhaps a building, an address, or some sort of landmark-ish location which narrowed whereabouts of the picture vastly? If this were the case, then I can understand that you guys were very impressed, because well, it is. EDIT: Just saw the 'solution'; very nice touch!
    - jbg331 13y ago
      Wait, whats the solution?
    - bdamm 13y ago
      This teasing is too much. Now I'm hooked like it's a spy novel.
wahsd 13y ago
Can you or did you mention what it was that Justin didn't know you knew about her. Seems rather unfair, to him and us. So we could all plow through every event that happened in Austin that she may have attended, but without knowing what part of town it starts looking rather boring. I have a real job. :) So it seems you weren't even confident when you got your confirmation, a.k.a., it was an informed guess but could have just as easily been a girl that looked alike at an event at the time she was supposedly at an event? Tricky ol' Phil.
olalonde 13y ago
My guess: someone on the team met another girl at the bar which happened to know her / attend the same event.

danso 13y ago

Nah I like this approach...let us bumble around for awhile in the discussion...I'd be very surprised if no one on HN could surmise the solution, but I'll admit I'm stumped (though I've only thought about it for a few minutes before getting back to work)

niuzeta 13y ago

that the extra information brought the result back "sooner" is intriguing. If you don't mind me asking, would other approaches discussed here have brought the result nonetheless? or did they?

philfreo 13y ago
I'm pretty confident it would have, but we ultimately "stopped" it after getting the answer confirmed, so I can't say with 100%.
- niuzeta 13y ago
  So you stumbled on a piece of information which proved useful, notwithstanding that you didn't intend to look for. If Justin observed correctly, you guys were very impressed with yourselves. Had you retrieved the answer by methods of which you were confident, you would've still been impressed, but not greatly.(I'm making a lapse conjecture here, of course) Since you were confident that you would be able to find her, prior to looking at the picture, according to the article, I don't think you were looking for any information in the picture other than for confirmation. However, some extra information in the picture(since it was taken very recently) enabled you to look further, which returned a result. Perhaps a building, an address, or some sort of landmark-ish location which narrowed whereabouts of the picture vastly? If this were the case, then I can understand that you guys were very impressed, because well, it is. EDIT: Just saw the 'solution'; very nice touch!
  - jbg331 13y ago
    Wait, whats the solution?
  - bdamm 13y ago
    This teasing is too much. Now I'm hooked like it's a spy novel.

wahsd 13y ago

Can you or did you mention what it was that Justin didn't know you knew about her. Seems rather unfair, to him and us. So we could all plow through every event that happened in Austin that she may have attended, but without knowing what part of town it starts looking rather boring. I have a real job. :) So it seems you weren't even confident when you got your confirmation, a.k.a., it was an informed guess but could have just as easily been a girl that looked alike at an event at the time she was supposedly at an event? Tricky ol' Phil.

olalonde 13y ago

My guess: someone on the team met another girl at the bar which happened to know her / attend the same event.