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I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
Did you go back to the bar where they originally met and talk to the bartender? She probably frequents the bar if she lives in the area. At that point, if the bartender knows some of her backstory or friends or anything - maybe only has a first name - things get much simpler.
How are you surprised that they did it when they knew what high school she went to? Two possibilities: Option 1: Step 1) Find copies of yearbooks going back a few years, 2) find her face in the yearbook. Option 2: Step 1) Search facebook for people who went to the same high school as she did in the probable time frame. 2) Look for her in that set, or in the set of friends that the people who matched the search have.…
FYI, I am a sales guy...not an engineer
I'm sure there's a lot of information missing from this story, which leads to a lot of possible solutions that aren't negated by the lack of limiting circumstances. More than likely the author is an idiot and the image had EXIF data. Considering they already knew her highschool, it wouldn't had been to hard to go through the year books in a few hours.
I resent the fact that you think I'm an idiot. I have had two engineers check for EXIF data and there is 'nothing interesting in there'
Seriously: given your story, if, say, they are colleagues, too, they may be in on it, and lie to you about the EXIF data (if they _are_ engineers, they certainly lied; how can there ever be 'nothing interesting' in EXIF data :-)?)
Most of the time, the simple answer is the likely one. My money is on the high school-yearbook line, but it might have been anything (did one of your colleagues go to the same school?).
I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
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I resent the fact that you think I'm an idiot. I have had two engineers check for EXIF data and there is 'nothing interesting in there'
Heh, geek blog effect. Reddit et al have created some very bad habits of dialogue, such as assuming the subject of a link isn't reading it. And being nasty with candor. I still remember the time I said something impolite about David Brin. Brin took offense and replied. I'm actually a huge fan of David Brin. That sucked.
Calling EXIF "back end stuff" is pretty stupid, I don't care if the author's ego is bigger than that statement, it's still true. The article might as well be how many apples fit in a bag or how long is a string.
I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
You obviously knew something about her that made it possible, which you even admit Justin doesn't know you had. People are getting bored with your shenanigans, spill it!
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.
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I resent the fact that you think I'm an idiot. I have had two engineers check for EXIF data and there is 'nothing interesting in there'
The same two engineers who found out who she was? :-) Seriously: given your story, if, say, they are colleagues, too, they may be in on it, and lie to you about the EXIF data (if they _are_ engineers, they certainly lied; how can there ever be 'nothing interesting' in EXIF data :-)?) Most of the time, the simple answer is the likely one. My money is on the high school-yearbook line, but it might have been anything (d…
If the photo was taken at her home and there is any landscape in the background, the obvious initial point of attack would be to identify the location the photograph was taken.
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I resent the fact that you think I'm an idiot. I have had two engineers check for EXIF data and there is 'nothing interesting in there'
Heh, geek blog effect. Reddit et al have created some very bad habits of dialogue, such as assuming the subject of a link isn't reading it. And being nasty with candor. I still remember the time I said something impolite about David Brin. Brin took offense and replied. I'm actually a huge fan of David Brin. That sucked.