September 16, 2007
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September 17th, 2007 at 8:23 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1190060609 )
Dudes !!! The Time should display the zone as well I don;t knwo if 10:30am is Indian Time or US Time.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:37 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1190072235 )
Mahesh: Done. :-)
September 18th, 2007 at 8:17 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1190146656 )
Dude… whats the number past the GMT-0700 ???
September 18th, 2007 at 8:32 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1190147541 )
The “Submit Comment” is a text-only thing. Since the replies ARE moderated, can’t you give an option to of a rich html editor ALONG with plain-text editor [i don't know if i can get the rich text editor to work in my mobile's browser].
September 18th, 2007 at 9:23 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1190150630 )
@Mahesh: It means you have to subtract 7hrs from GMT :)
and we don’t see a need for rich text editors in the comment section. If you can tell us the specific reason why you want it, we can add it.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1190338335 )
I just wanted to add links in a nice manner. Even though the page translates the URLs to links, it makes it come as it is….
even if you can parse the posts that will be good.
something [italic]like[/italic] [url=http://...]My Link Text[/url] etc
September 21st, 2007 at 6:25 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1190399107 )
@Mahesh: We have added TinyMCE support as an experiment to test your suggestion. Let us see how the other users react :)
You can bold, italic, underline, and link
Using the brilliant TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor.
Also, if your browser does not support js, you will see the plain old test box :)
October 11th, 2007 at 7:59 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1192132773 )
lo. makla…. enro logo adu… it looks like a cheap horror movie logo…. especially the red "beans"… :)
But the icon is nice. Also, u seemed to have forgotten to update it in the About and the Feedback links.
Dudes… of late… i can't seem to answer any Qs…. and i'm a bit losing intereset because of that. Consider throwing in some easy Qs, for people like us, so that we can think we too are geeks and visit the next day.
and where the hell did the tagline go… ? it was good.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:48 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1192225738 )
@Mahesh:
"it looks like a cheap horror movie logo…. especially the red "beans"… :)"
We have received more positive reactions than negetive, so we are going to keep it.
" But the icon is nice. Also, u seemed to have forgotten to update it in the About and the Feedback links."
Thanks. Will be fixed.
"Dudes… of late… i can't seem to answer any Qs…. and i'm a bit losing intereset because of that. Consider throwing in some easy Qs, for people like us, so that we can think we too are geeks and visit the next day."
Today's q is pretty simple :) Put up for you
"and where the hell did the tagline go… ? it was good."
This will be back…
And thanks a lot for all the suggestions maga.. we appreciate it :)
October 18th, 2007 at 8:54 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1192740894 )
How about having more points for super tough questions.As you can see Yaksha and Udupendra are streaking away from the rest of the field.there must be some way to catch up with them quickly :-)
and yes,This is a great site and keep up the good work!
October 18th, 2007 at 11:18 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1192749516 )
@Gammafunction: Thats a good idea and we will see what we can do. At-least we will add a "Top Scorers of the month" section of some such :)
Actually, the run-lenghts section was added to assist other users to make it to the front page.. if you see there, yaksha and udupendra are not 1 & 2 :)
and yes, thanks for linking to this page, we saw many hits from your blog..
Keep visiting and keep linking :)
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:18 am, GMT +0000 ( 1194088692 )
O well guess i should have refreshed the page before submitting. But in my defence i always thought we had time till 12.
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:21 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1194099678 )
@sidsen: Point given.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1194863494 )
Dudes I have correctly answered the Nov 12 th question(Hedy Lamarr),no points for me ??–:(
November 12th, 2007 at 10:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1194865039 )
@Shakeel: Point given. Sorry about the goof up :)
November 12th, 2007 at 10:42 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1194907365 )
not a problem…:) nice site to know new things
November 18th, 2007 at 10:28 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195424889 )
Can you make your posts categorised ?
Like say: Physics, Humor, Announcements, Computers etc… and apply these categories to a Question once the answer has been posted for a Question (and also to all the Questions posted by now) ?
Of course, the categories need to be listed on the side-pane. The current option of monthly list is not sufficient in itself… Currently, there is noway to se all the [old] questions related to ComputerScience.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195513519 )
@Mahesh: Nice idea :)
We will try to incorporate it.
Thanks again!
November 20th, 2007 at 9:57 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195595867 )
Dudes,
I’ve answered correctly but no points given to me. :(
November 20th, 2007 at 11:16 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195600617 )
@Keerthi: I must’ve missed it.. Sorry about that. You have your points now.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:33 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195644832 )
Four Whinings and a Feedback
1. my total should as per my run length would total to 28. 28 plus the 2 for theme makes it 30 not 29.
2. why 2 for theme? “bobo, sidsen, Gammafunction and nisha’s thambi got the theme! 2 points added to their totals” it should be 3 for the theme, since next set of people also seem to have gotten 2 for getting the theme. so make that 31 not 30.
3. In re: scores after this round are – “This section shows 5 boiledbeans users who have scored the highest points in the past 15 questions.” Consequently it should be impossible to be a round topper with 16 points. slight revision on that front required possibly.
4. you guys have made me ultra dedic and ultra competetive. can’t believe i’m griping bout scores. ridiculous… and i blame you guys. evil people luring poor innocent people in to vices of evil addiction.
and the constructive feedback bit being that i really really liked the idea of the theme rounds. several more of those should be the order of the day. possibly also, and of course i’m blatantly copying arul’s original idea out here, may be you guys could try some thing to the modified effect of the KQA “Go Ogle” type of thing. Say once a month, set of 20-25 odd questions free for all thingy. Just a thought. Of course it might not go with the one bit of poison a day trend you guys have running.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:54 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195646057 )
o and is my screen just dirty or is there a tiny micro mini smiley down there? :)
November 21st, 2007 at 10:40 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195684817 )
@sidsen:
All whining/feedback welcome. Both help us improve, and also we can gleefully laugh at how we torment our users :-)
1 and 2) Yup, its a mistake. My caffeine levels were dangerously low when I posted that. All of you who answered that now have 3 points extra in total (1 for the answer, 2 for the theme).
3) Good point. We’ll fix that to make it read properly soon. We’ll either change the name, or just change the points system (by counting the max number of answers, rather than total scores)
4) It’s a feature, not a bug. :-)
Yeah, we liked the theme rounds idea a lot too. The problem with running this is that we have to stay in synch across timezones and jobs and what not. So, we will do more theme rounds in the future, but not too many of them. Till then, it’s one ‘hit’ a day :-).
November 24th, 2007 at 1:58 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195869512 )
I have answered autostereogram correctly, yet my name is not mentioned,
regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee
November 24th, 2007 at 10:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195900990 )
@Tathagata Chatterjee: Some bug in the code. We’ve fixed it now… Thanks :)
November 27th, 2007 at 1:25 am, GMT +0000 ( 1196126710 )
Hey, how about putting photos/profiles of all the geeks so that we’ll come to know each other?
November 28th, 2007 at 1:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1196212381 )
[censored]Had a question suggestion[/censored]
Thanks! But next time, please mail it to boiledbeans@gmail.com
November 28th, 2007 at 9:46 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1196286380 )
will do!!
November 29th, 2007 at 10:54 am, GMT +0000 ( 1196333690 )
@Keerthi Kiran M: Nice idea. We will add the feature sometime :)
Thanks!
December 5th, 2007 at 7:39 am, GMT +0000 ( 1196840396 )
Hey guys….this site is neat..
do u plan to have a real time online session…
will find out whos fast with google…or otherwise..
no offense meant.
December 5th, 2007 at 10:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1196850678 )
@Prithvi: “Real time online session” sounds really interesting, but we need to come up with code which can handle that. If we manage to pull together that much code, we will surely have a real-time session.
December 8th, 2007 at 9:12 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1197148340 )
Shenoyvarun86 and Varun are the same!
So my score is2:-)
December 12th, 2007 at 2:07 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197425279 )
I landed up here from a link on a blog that i hate but sometime read.
awesome stuff.
Look like bejan bengaluru boys here.Or at least kandu junta.
Namaskara…!!!
December 12th, 2007 at 9:28 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197451713 )
@Varun: Please pick one of the names and tell us which one you will be using. Your scores will be migrated.
Thanks
December 12th, 2007 at 5:53 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1197482026 )
ill use shenoyvarun86
’cause Lorem Ipsum was got by one other varun and I got it wrong
till date I have got only Uwe Boll and HAL/S
Thanks!
December 13th, 2007 at 1:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1197550848 )
@Vivek: Namaskara! Welcome..
December 14th, 2007 at 10:12 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1197670365 )
hey… i did get the UAC question right!!!!
December 14th, 2007 at 10:47 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1197672475 )
@Dibyo: Fixed.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197973241 )
its getting a lil’ boring in here
December 19th, 2007 at 6:35 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1198089346 )
@Gammafunction: Some proper jing-bang stuff is coming up, so please keep your RC circuits tuned :)
In the meantime, please suggest ways we can get better.
Also, tell us what in particular is nuking the interestingness of boiledbeans.
The questions? The answers? The crowd? The quizmasters? The logo? lack of lolcats?
Let us know.
Thanks
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1198441341 )
It’s a pain in the “browser” to goto multiple pages to see the answers/comments of each questions.
Update the site so that u can just click on the “Answers” and “Comments” link, and the content just expands right there. Make sure that by default, section is collapsed.
A Helpful Link:
http://www.ekcsoft.com/coding/js/expandable_list/
December 24th, 2007 at 11:52 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1198540376 )
Re: Special Round
au contraire, each person who sent in question and whose question was put up should be given a point for the effort. three jolly good reasons for this crop to mind –
Firstly, it acts as an incentive to people to send in more questions. there is value add to the effort and consequently people will actuall pull up their socks and make that effort.
Secondly, it doesn’t end up penalizing people who have sent in questions. For example while every one whose questions haven’t been put up get shots at extra points, people whose questions are up lose out on the points. the logic should instead be that people who sent in the question should be deemed to know the answer and be given the point for it anyway, and a chance to get all 6 points by cracking the questions sent by others.
Thirdly and the most convincing argument to my mind is that it is three easy points for me :)
QED
December 27th, 2007 at 10:17 am, GMT +0000 ( 1198750626 )
@Mahesh:
We’ve thought about that idea, and the main problem with that is that there are many people who run browsers that don’t support Javascript (or they disable JS for security reasons), and the answer would be visible directly to them, in effect wasting the question.
But, your point is taken. We will look into this and see if we can add the inline expansion in a way that gracefully fails for UAs that don’t support JS. Thanks for the suggestion sir!
December 27th, 2007 at 10:18 am, GMT +0000 ( 1198750726 )
@sidsen: Yup, as you suggested, we’ve done it for the most recent guest-gala post. (Now if you’ll please pay up as you promised for the extra points, we can get on with life ;-))
January 1st, 2008 at 6:22 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1199211754 )
sire,why not include a theme round as in say a question for a week based on some theme(say Mechanics!) and that will carry 2-3 points….
well this was a prospective effort to improve the pathetic score that I have and to extend the lead of the “God” to an insurmountable number!!!
January 30th, 2008 at 9:21 am, GMT +0000 ( 1201684894 )
I was just going through the archives…and the first question that I answered i.e q no.7… I have not been given points for that….or do the points start after that or something….
January 30th, 2008 at 3:49 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1201708194 )
@gammafunction: Nice find! Point given.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:53 am, GMT +0000 ( 1201755225 )
Hi, Tathagata Chatterjee here. I have no ben credited for the point which I have earned by answering the “Ho ho ho” question. And if you backcalculate, I am still leading from SidSen by a point, whereas you have equated us on the point scale. Pl rectify,
Regards,
January 31st, 2008 at 5:00 am, GMT +0000 ( 1201755629 )
I have answered the NORAD question ( “Ho ho ho”) correctly but you have not awarded me with the points and also did not credit me. Request you to kindly do the needful.
I should be a point higher than SidSen with this NORAD answer.
Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee
January 31st, 2008 at 9:59 am, GMT +0000 ( 1201773555 )
Tathagata : You’ve posted as Anonymous there. I can give you the points if you post while logged in.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:06 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1201813573 )
Yes, I have posted as anonymous, but I have signed my name as what it is at the end of the mail.Thats proves my identity.
Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee
January 31st, 2008 at 9:23 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1201814616 )
@Tathagata Chatterjee: It proves your identity to us, but not to the back-end code :)
All scoring is automated and integrated into the back-end, so if you post as anonymous, points will go to “Anonymous” but not you.
So, only if you post while logged in, a point will get assigned to your user name.
So, pls go ahead and re-post a comment while you are logged in and we will give you the point which you deserve.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:57 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1202331462 )
i just realised, that 1 point of mine has gone under the name of “prasanthnori”
could you add it to my “prasanth” set of points?
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:09 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1203797367 )
This is regarding the Beatles song,agreed NASA beamed it on feb 4th,but the beep also co-incides with the phrase Jai Gurudeva Om,which was a sorta tribute to Maharshi Mahesh Yogi who passed away on feb 5th,so technically speaking(considering the geek nature of the quiz) this is more recent than the beaming of the song isn’t it?????
February 25th, 2008 at 11:09 am, GMT +0000 ( 1203937749 )
shenoyvarun86: The beeped-out part of the clip is the phrase “Across the universe”, and not the other chant. And besides, Mahesh Yogi’s life/death doesn’t really fall under the “Drama! Intrigue! Geekiness!” banner of this site :-) I’m sorry mate, but I’ll stick to the NASA answer.. No hard feelings, I hope.
February 29th, 2008 at 7:37 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1204313866 )
none-wat-so-ever:)besides,MMY’s death is a tragic drama so….
March 9th, 2008 at 8:06 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1205093173 )
Didn’t get points for Greasemonkey?
March 9th, 2008 at 11:01 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1205103711 )
@dibyo: SRY. I HAS GIVEN U TEH POINT NOW.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:12 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1205179953 )
I have not been given a point for Happy meal
March 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1205229059 )
shenoyvarun86: Benefit of doubt given on reconsideration, but it’s dodgy… I was looking for the “ethernet & SCSI” part of the answer :-)
March 16th, 2008 at 2:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1205633796 )
hey i’ve not received a point for sending the answer for the Bayes theorem question. I’d mailed to ur address since i was seeing ‘comments are closed’ thing.
can i get that point?
March 16th, 2008 at 10:07 am, GMT +0000 ( 1205662049 )
Yaksha: Please post your answer now… I’ll mod you up :)
March 17th, 2008 at 12:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1205714109 )
But im unable to make a comment.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:19 am, GMT +0000 ( 1205745580 )
yaksha: Try now…
March 17th, 2008 at 10:27 am, GMT +0000 ( 1205749631 )
done
March 20th, 2008 at 8:01 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206000063 )
hey.. how bout an option where you are allowed to delete your posts.. (in case you initially gave in a wrong answer or typed in something really stupid)
April 14th, 2008 at 9:18 am, GMT +0000 ( 1208164693 )
jayanth: That option doesn’t seem to be there in the backend (when moderation is enabled)… It’s probably just best to post your next answer in a separate post and ask us to delete the messed up comment :)
April 26th, 2008 at 11:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1209208610 )
hey..something is wrong with my runlength page..says 254th question is Fast! Isnt that the 255th??
April 26th, 2008 at 11:30 am, GMT +0000 ( 1209209405 )
@varuns88: Dude, thanks a lot for pointing it out.. it is now fixed :)
April 30th, 2008 at 8:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1209543044 )
Dude..same prob again with runlength page man..it has skipped the “It Looks Like a Grapefruit” question..
May 17th, 2008 at 10:06 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1211062015 )
my points for iconic gifts???????
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 am, GMT +0000 ( 1214122551 )
hey, quantumfoammakesmeroamakhi and akhi, we, are the same.. hell that’s me. I’ve been using akhi , umm for quite sometime.. is it possible for you to transfer the points that i have scored, (not like it’s much.. just 5 or 6..still :P) while i was “quantumfoammakesmeroamakhi ” to akhi? . talk about lengthy names.. :(
thanks.. :)
July 1st, 2008 at 12:54 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1214916877 )
@akhi: Sure, will be done :)
Btw, did the quantum foam make you roam in sub atomic holiday resorts? :D
July 8th, 2008 at 10:54 am, GMT +0000 ( 1215514496 )
hi, i used to post answers as ‘jake’ then i did like a good boy and registered under ‘insufferablejake’. can you have the points from ‘jake’ xferred to ‘insufferable ..’?
oh and smashing site fellows. First thing I do everyday when I reach work is click on ze rss feed. and keep the window open till i get the answer.
sooper da pasangala!
July 26th, 2008 at 2:29 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217039376 )
Haven got points for artificial intelligence:)
July 26th, 2008 at 10:58 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1217113108 )
shenoyvarun86: You have to post in a thread before we can assign points :) the backend isn’t smartenough to handle guest Qs transparently
August 9th, 2008 at 4:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1218257848 )
Double posted by mistake for yesterday’s question. I’ve been given two points instead of one for the question!!
August 14th, 2008 at 8:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1218700956 )
my comment on Gimp has not appeared:(
are there any complimentary T-Shirts?:)
August 14th, 2008 at 8:09 am, GMT +0000 ( 1218701364 )
I mean are there any complimentary t shirts for poor peepals like me?
:)
August 14th, 2008 at 1:55 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1218722126 )
@shenoyvarun86:
Please re-post the comment and we will give you the point
As far as the t-shirt goes, you can buy one with your hard earned savings :)
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:27 am, GMT +0000 ( 1219476471 )
Dudez,
My points are not getting updated. Can you check why?
August 25th, 2008 at 10:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1219659028 )
I don’t think any of our points have been updated for the Guitar Hero question:(
August 25th, 2008 at 3:39 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1219678756 )
@Atul: Thanks for pointing it out! Fixed now.
August 30th, 2008 at 7:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220080382 )
O damn, looks like you guys missed the ’subtle’ reference to “Los Altos”, “Menlo Park” and “Palo Alto”. There is an urban legend that goes that the applewood pizza was the secred of the energy of the owners of the three garages. but thats just an urban legend :)
August 30th, 2008 at 9:25 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1220131556 )
@sidsen: I did notice that you got the cities right, but the companies weren’t there… I can’t find a reference to the applewood pizza legend anywhere. (My google-fu is possibly weakening) You have a source for that?
September 1st, 2008 at 10:30 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1220308255 )
lol you are unlikely to find any such reference, but i would really like to start it :)
October 9th, 2008 at 10:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223589645 )
hey! i am not the vinay, who is in your list..i’ll use vinayprasad from tomo..kindly update the points for google ond today’s as well( i used old usrname :P)
October 19th, 2008 at 7:38 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1224445092 )
Hi,
I did give the answer as Coming through the Rye … But I dont think it registered it… I think it got lost when I have to give the captcha the second time… At the time of entering the letters in the second I did check my answer and it was displaying my answer … but now it is not… please consider it…
October 19th, 2008 at 7:39 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1224445172 )
The question I am talking about is the one about James Maxwell and Robert Burns one….
October 19th, 2008 at 9:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1224450008 )
@Rahulk – Granted, sir. The escape character ‘\’ in the answer corroborates your statement :-) . Must be a hiccup of some sort in the input forms. We’ll check it out.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1224486851 )
Thanks mate!! Anyways I lost my runlength coz I cant answer the Diffie Hellman’s problem… :-) … Plain stupid of me of not paying attention to the Knapsack Problem….
October 20th, 2008 at 7:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1224488106 )
Also didnt get points for the October 2 question… The Last Supper one…..
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1224666346 )
Quiz master machchas..
Good site. Good questions. Gives me a good short break everyday.
2 things:
I saw once that my answer had double quotation marks and I put in the captcha incorrectly, the page that rendered next didn’t have part of the text i had just typed in. I needed to do it all over again.
The Captcha image doesn’t render on blackberry mobile browser. Browser problem? :-(
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:26 am, GMT +0000 ( 1224671210 )
@RahulK: Fixed. Thanks for letting us know!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1224671510 )
@Ananth:
The solution to both your problems is to register :)
It is simple, takes hardly a minute. Captchas dont appear if you register and log in!
That does not mean we will ignore the problem :)
We will look into it and fix it.
Thanks for letting us know!
October 31st, 2008 at 5:17 am, GMT +0000 ( 1225430260 )
My day starts with boiled beans ;) . Though haven’t been able to answer much, I definitely check the answers and improve my knowledge.
Tech questions are too good :)
Keep up the good work folks :)
October 31st, 2008 at 10:58 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1225493890 )
@Vaishnavi: We’re very glad you like the site! Please do keep checking back since the absolute quantities of Drama, Intrigue and Geekiness will only keep increasing :-)
BTW, most of the answers are quite workable. We throw in lots of hints and clues so it’s worth trying to look for them, because they’ll lead you to the solution.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1225747649 )
Silicon alley ge points kottilla
November 10th, 2008 at 9:30 am, GMT +0000 ( 1226309432 )
Hey,
Really love the site. Keep up the good work.
I spend most of my day at work trying to crack the question :)
I have two queries.
1) Is it possible to change the display name while retaining the points?
2) I was a bit late in posting my answer for the Gang of Four question, by the time I pressed submit the other comments had become visible. Is it possible to give me points for that?
Vijay
November 11th, 2008 at 7:44 am, GMT +0000 ( 1226389490 )
@Vijay Shankar: Thanks :)
Coming to your queries,
1. Yes, But it will take a while since we have to manually rig our backend database. If you want to change your name, do it and let us know about your old and new usernames, we will move the points over the weekend.
2. Granted.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:46 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1226954815 )
folks the ls -a title for “In the Beginning was
the Command Line by Neal Stephenson” is awesome. I see the creative fedora/tiara in you on :D
The tech Q’s are too good I must say!
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227333939 )
Hey what about my two extra points for sending in a question?
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227392533 )
@gammafunction: Currently, you get one point for sending in a question :)
We may increase it in the future.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:34 am, GMT +0000 ( 1228098871 )
hey hey hey, gentleman, surely you were expecting cryptography as the significant BB relevant answer in the poe-gold bug question? given author of novel and illustration of novel, you just have to be seeking a deeper connection than author-novel.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1228140687 )
@sidsen: True. Since the question was to “identify and connect” and you had just put in the connect, I had not given you the point( backend complains :) )
However, on second thoughts, I felt the connect was sufficient, so, the point has been given.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:34 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1228170887 )
grazie
January 6th, 2009 at 9:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1231233248 )
hey,i answered the “yes,minster” question.but my comment did’nt appear.what happened?(i answered it correctly too)
January 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1231260870 )
have you added the scores for livequiz.if so i have’nt got my 3 points.here’s the badge once again.
+—————————————————-+
BB Live Quiz Badge
uname: mach101
level: 18
skipped: 3
final score: 15
End time: 1231010154
key: c6e19e6987cb963b95b8fd96da02ed47
+—————————————————-+
January 6th, 2009 at 10:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1231279239 )
@mach101: Hey! Sorry for the trouble.. we had some issues with approving comments. Its all fixed now.
You will get points for both!
Thanks
January 11th, 2009 at 6:21 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1231698063 )
i demand my live quiz points.jus kidding.i’ll still visit this site for no points.but try adding my points if it’s no problem.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1231716425 )
@ mach101: :) We have added your points!
January 12th, 2009 at 12:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1231719233 )
what happened to my guest Q? *sob sob*
February 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1233945093 )
I got the Pauli effect part. I didn’t relate the story of his train journey and his stopover… Can i still get points for the feb 4th answer.
February 8th, 2009 at 10:54 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1234133664 )
@Ananth: Oops! Overlooked that one. Mea culpa, it’s been fixed and you have the point now :-)
February 14th, 2009 at 10:30 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1234650646 )
Uh.. hello folks.
Due to academic obligations , i was unable to post an answer to my question (Mera Bharath Mahan).
Is it possible to receive a point for the same, now?
February 24th, 2009 at 11:09 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1235516979 )
Not awarded a point for ‘Fe’, question 558
February 25th, 2009 at 2:59 am, GMT +0000 ( 1235530797 )
Rather than the captcha which is a bit of a prima-donna, would you consider using OpenID authentication for spam protection ?
February 25th, 2009 at 8:06 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1235592402 )
Gurus..
Had sent one guest question. Reject andre ‘Rejected’ antha mail kaLisi. Yella Ok, Suspense yake? :)
February 26th, 2009 at 12:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1235607643 )
@p vs np: Its your point :) post the answer and we will give it to you!
February 26th, 2009 at 3:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1235618206 )
It’s been there for a while now, the answer :O
February 28th, 2009 at 11:33 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1235864033 )
@ananth: We don’t really reject anything… We save them for a rainy day. You’ll see your question some time.
February 28th, 2009 at 11:36 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1235864174 )
@p vs np: You’ve been pointed for both. Yenjoy.
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1235968530 )
:( can you transfer my scores scored under ‘Akhila’ to ‘akhi’? thought I could just change the display name :(
March 4th, 2009 at 12:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1236125154 )
Uh, is Boiledbeans running a day late?
The questions meant for a particular date ‘n’ is being put up on the ‘n+1′th day of that month.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:47 am, GMT +0000 ( 1236131260 )
@p vs np: Very good observation. Yes, we are running a question behind because of the one I disqualified. We will be posting a make up question sometime.
How did you find it out?
March 4th, 2009 at 1:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1236131466 )
@akhi: Can you please post answers with ‘akhi’ as username under each question you have posted answer as “Akhila”?
If it is too hard, let me know, I can rig your username to akhi with the magic of SQL :)
March 4th, 2009 at 11:45 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1236210355 )
Nothing ‘Gaussy’ about the observation made :D
Just that the date on which the latest question is posted is a day behind the current date (Indian time).
But the question you disqualified hasn’t exactly been removed, and still shows the date you put it on. Nevertheless, the run lengths seem to be intact.
So, i guess, some minor things need to be straightened out.
March 8th, 2009 at 2:26 am, GMT +0000 ( 1236479160 )
If SQLing helps.. then do it :D hehe yes I’ve re answered :)
March 8th, 2009 at 10:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1236552061 )
@akhi: I saw you re-comment only for one. If that’s all, then there is no need to swing my SQL wand. Right?
or are there more?
March 9th, 2009 at 7:55 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1236628543 )
I answered 2 :(
I’ll see if I have answered any more ,because it says ‘akhila’ has scored 3 :)
March 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1236628734 )
I have answered that VK test thing and heisenberg questions, couldn’t find the third one :P
March 12th, 2009 at 11:03 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1236898991 )
@akhi: The third one was “The FSF award” question :)
Fixed. Let me know if I have double marked you on any question, because that will crack your runlength :)
March 18th, 2009 at 11:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1237375350 )
There seems to be some discrepancy between the number of answers given right as shown on the pie chart and as shown in the Hall of Fame page in most of the user-names. Please look into it.
March 18th, 2009 at 11:24 am, GMT +0000 ( 1237375470 )
It seems the pie charts haven’t been updated since a while now..
March 19th, 2009 at 8:50 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1237495823 )
for some strange reasonn my answer to frau mond hasn’t posted i got the its being moderated response but today i don’t see the answer. could you just check if my answer to yesterday’s has posted? they would have been roughly around the same time yesterday afternoon
March 19th, 2009 at 10:24 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1237501449 )
@p vs np: The pie chart shows the number of posts where the user has had a correct answer. The hall of fame shows the actual score of the user.
The “discrepancy” happens because we have had some posts where we have multiple questions or multiple points for a single question.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:25 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1237501545 )
@sidsen: Go ahead and post it again, you shall get the point.
Sometimes, the tubes get clogged and although you see the “Awaiting moderation” thingy, the comment gets lost.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:51 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1237503077 )
Oh.. Okay.. Neat. :)
March 22nd, 2009 at 9:25 am, GMT +0000 ( 1237713959 )
Uh, mods, is there a way to access questions which appeared on BB, before July 2008?
It’s fun going through the older posts on a lazy-Sunday :)
As of now, i access some of these questions by going through your/some of the old-timers’ run-lengths, which is quite a tedious process, as navigation from one page to another isn’t convenient..
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238640304 )
It might be cheesy, but I love the raining mad-scientists! :D I love this site!
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:34 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238718895 )
Guys, I didn’t get points for the ‘Towel Day’ question :(
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:47 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240393668 )
I have a question on my run length stats. I have answered all the questions from Apr 15 (Q 613, Tuz) to Apr 20 (Q 617, Intel Floating point error). But my run length stats show a gap between 613 and 617. Bug? Delayed stats updates?.
I didn’t answer the Watchmen/Mars crater question completely. So, even if I ignore 1 answer, stats should still show 2 correct answers between 613 and 617.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240809732 )
My answer wrong for Flush Twice?
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1241390661 )
@Ananth: I think the stats are fine now. Do let us know if you still see problems.
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:45 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1241390747 )
@Atul: Sorry for the delay. It is fixed now.
May 4th, 2009 at 9:52 am, GMT +0000 ( 1241430758 )
Not been given points for this:
http://www.boiledbeans.net/200.....#more-3502
May 9th, 2009 at 10:30 am, GMT +0000 ( 1241865018 )
Hai Friends,
It will be great if you visit http://quizshooter.wordpress.com/
June 14th, 2009 at 8:45 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1245012322 )
I haven’t recieved points for this..
http://www.boiledbeans.net/200.....geekiness/
Also, I’m not able to log in.. It appears that I am logged in the Wordpress profile page, but when I return back to the BB homepage, i’m not logged in anymore. (Asking me to enter the captchas for posting)
And one last thing.. Why is it that some questions have the Answer link posted by you mods and some don’t?
I’m asking because some questions have conflicting answers and its not really clear what the correct answer is? I’m referring to the http://www.boiledbeans.net/200.....hats-this/ post.
There’s one guy there suggesting that its not the princes of Serendip in the pic. Clarifications please.
P.S. Sorry about the long whiny post. :-)
June 17th, 2009 at 11:25 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1245281123 )
@krudebox: Thanks for your post.
If you don’t see an answer link on a post, it means that we have not moderated the question and no one has been given points for that question. Sometimes, we get plain lazy and don’t mod :)
We will be modding all pending questions soon, so your points will appear.
About your logging in problem, after login, please do not hit your browser’s back button. Instead, hit the visit site link on the top of your profile page.
Thanks
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1245800592 )
Thought you might like to know that Websense is filtering your site as of yesterday for “Sex”.
So, either there’s another side to the site that ai’m not aware of or somebody’s screen name is a dirty word.
July 19th, 2009 at 8:27 am, GMT +0000 ( 1247992028 )
i changed my display name from gudanggurum to gurupad. can all my points be transferred to either on of the display names? or should i switch back to my old display name?
July 28th, 2009 at 4:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248754444 )
guyz u should post few quiz on technology alone.it will help alot for tcs it wiz
July 29th, 2009 at 8:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248857029 )
@Rogi: Thanks a bunch, mate. We saw your comment a long time ago and we’re trying to contact websense. A couple of others have reported it as well, so we’ll try to get ourselves unlisted.
Sadly, this site has no seedy side to it. The pr0n is not here :-(
July 29th, 2009 at 8:55 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248857716 )
@Gurupad: Done. You’re henceforth called Gurupad.
All your points and answers are transferred. Note that the posts may still credit “gudanggurum”, but the points are with “Gurupad”
September 7th, 2009 at 5:15 am, GMT +0000 ( 1252300530 )
Hey.. vardhans94 and Vardhan Shenoy are the same.Plz shift the points to Vardhan Shenoy
September 11th, 2009 at 8:29 am, GMT +0000 ( 1252657780 )
Hi,
My run-length seems to be stopped at 22, even though I’ve got 4 more after that. It seems to be taking 756 twice and restarting the length again:
http://boiledbeans.net/sl.php?u_name_=AmK
October 8th, 2009 at 4:09 am, GMT +0000 ( 1254974955 )
Hey Rithwik K and Rithwik are the same.so pls shift the points to Rithwik K (Rank – 57 )
Mod edit: Done! Check out your new rank!