Countdown to PDC2008: By Developers, for Developers: Don Box and Chris Anderson
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Clothing optional keynotes, comparisons to the pains of childbirth, the joys of sharing an office, how to give a 90 minute speech minus PowerPoint and only writing 130 lines of code, and why PDC is the most special developer conference on the planet .
. . this is one amusing show starring PDC keynote speakers, and developers by day, Chris Anderson and Don Box. Not to mention, Mike introduces a new PDC Hard Hat Challenge!
PS: The brainteaser from last week remains unsolved – will you be the Mensa member who can finally crack the code??
PS: The brainteaser from last week remains unsolved – will you be the Mensa member who can finally crack the code??
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Also, as the description notes, last week's Hard Hat Challenge remains unsolved. I've added a few hints to the comment section if you want to take a stab at it. Good luck!
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There are 708 characters in the cipher, excluding new line characters.
Given a chunk size of 3 characters,
There are 236 chunks.
There are 172 duplicates.
The 323 code shows up a whopping total of 29 times!
The 333 code shows up 11 times.
All other codes show up 7 times or less.
35 chunks start with a 2.
200 chunks start with a 3. (Interesting!)
1 chunk starts with a 4.
Despite the cipher containing 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, and 9s, chunks only start with 2 and 3, except the 1 chunk that starts with 4.
There are no 0s.
There are no 1s.
There are 115 2s.
There are 293 3s.
There are 56 4s.
There are 38 5s.
There are 49 6s.
There are 52 7s.
There are 63 8s.
There are 42 9s.
The 323 code is very interesting indeed. I'm leaning towards chunk sizes of 3 being involved somehow. We'll see!
More than 200. http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Agenda/UnSessions.aspx#ask-the-experts
Cheers,
A 15-yr old kid from Hungary who now feels cool.
PS. I will be posting how to solve it in a few hours.
Just finished talking to palotasb (Boldizsar) above who solved it. He posted a discussion of how he solved it at his blog.
Wow. Nice solve. I'm blown away by his hacking skills. 15 year old, of all things!
Congrats on the solve!
I'm working on this week's Challenge as we speak. It should be another fun one.
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