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Shlomi Noach is the next chairman of the Percona Live 2013. As such, he has opened the preview of the conference by posting some talks of interests, which includes a riddle to win a free pass. The riddle went unanswered, and Shlomi submitted it also to members of the review committee, getting only blank stares, including mine. Who will open your present, |
Wanting to give away the pass at all costs, Shlomi then published a new post, including subtle and less subtle hints.
Looking at the hints, it became clear that the object of the riddle, which I could not recognize, was my own MySQL Sandbox. Shame on me for not recognizing it? I don't know. I would never have guessed that a tarball is "your present". Perhaps I have too much a practical mind!
Anyway, thanks Shlomi for this bit of entertainment!
3 comments:
I guess it was a difficult riddle; one that given the answer you can see the connection, but which is hard to resolve at first encounter.
But this really means I won't be asking my next riddle, which is a variant on the Riddle of the Sphinx, and which I believe to be more difficult...
Shlomi, I know you haven't posted your second riddle yet, but given that hint my guess is "Sphinx Search" ;)
Ike, no, actually.
In fact I didn't even think about the association :D
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