Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
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, but were unable to find any yearbooks / class rosters online. (Idea not pursued: try to acquire a yearbook offline).- Facebook Graph Search and LinkedIn with the criteria we knew didn't help.- Google Image search didn't help.> "I'm sure there's a lot of information missing from this story"Quite true.Ultimately we had several methods going at once to try to figure it out.The one that came back with results first relies on some information Justin still doesn't know we had (though he would still be impressed), but other approaches we also expected to work would be possible with only what's in the story, and haven't yet been mentioned here.EDIT: shared more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6369751