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September 2009

Sunday, September 20, 2009

ewwwwww

—devadutta @ 23:59

Recently, amateur astronomers were delighted to witness this mysterious event in the sky. But their happiness was shattered when they found out what it was. What was it?

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Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, AmK, akhi, Logik, BASAB, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Raghuvansh, xtremevarun, sidsen, Dibyo and Rogi


I have a need

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple one for the weekend. Identify this train

800px-TGV-Duplex_Paris

Another pic

350px-TGV-V150-recordbreaker-on-Seine (1)

Since they are doing something funky with it, you would have guessed by now that the train did something special.

Cracked by: Dibyo, Gurupad, Logik, Debasish, prateekbhatt, Sourya, akhi, abhijeet, Anirudh, madhur, varuns88, Chinmaya U.Holla, Ananth, sidsen, AmK, xtremevarun, Raghuvansh, Rogi, krudebox, shenoyvarun86, nishansolo, sai, byslexia, shrik and udupendra

Show Answer

The French TGV v150. Fastest conventional train on earth.


Friday, September 18, 2009

Meep Meep

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect. Also, tell us what is missing.

rrjaguar 300px-Pleiades_Lanoue

200px-Colossal_octopus_by_Pierre_Denys_de_Montfort images dawn

Cracked by: sindhura, varuns88, Dibyo, Logik, Gurupad, Debasish, akhi, Rogi, madhur, madhur, Ananth, prateekbhatt, Sourya, prateekbhatt, Raghuvansh, AmK, sidsen, xtremevarun, krudebox, yuvnesh, joe, Anirudh, Sudarshan Nidhi, Chinmaya U.Holla, Mihir Rege, nishansolo, byslexia, shrik and udupendra


Thursday, September 17, 2009

I cant see

—devadutta @ 23:59

What were these Dilbert strips made for?

dilbert1 dilberttwo dilbertgoo dilbertiv

And I have dropped the friday’s strip.

Cracked by: MKen_, Chinmaya U.Holla, Nitish, insufferablejake, krudebox, Gagan, Gurupad, Anirudh, emrohit, shrik, Mihir Rege, Bharath, raklodramA, prateekbhatt, Vipin S Nair, joe, sidsen, Debasish, madhur, varuns88, Ananth, achyuth, AmK, Hitesh T S, Dibyo, Sourya, Rogi, Logik, Raghuvansh, xtremevarun, udupendra, akhi, nishansolo and Rithwik K


Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Impossible is nothing

—devadutta @ 23:59

Super Question from udupendra! Thanks saar.

View the sculpture from a different angle, and connect it to the mathematician.

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Hint:

180px-EscherSelf1929

djds4rce is conducting an online quiz tomorrow. It will have a few questions from us!

Take a look at it here: http://www.ignite-fest.com/events/online-quiz

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, shrik, udupendra, Appu, prashant pandey, Sourya, prateekbhatt, akhi, Raghuvansh, Higgers, Ananth, Logik, achyuth, AmK, Gagan, p vs np, Dibyo, Rogi, babszem, varuns88, sidsen and Ps


Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Use fertilizer?

—srikanth @ 23:59

More of a prank question, really.

** Group A**

  • Fortran
  • Prolog
  • Simula
  • And similar people…

Group B

  • C
  • C++
    c
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • And similar people…

What does this “prove” about these languages?

(12 hrs longer, as almost usual. )

Cracked by Debasish, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Sourya, prateekbhatt, Mr.Bay Leaf, AmK, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, sidsen, shrik, Mihir Rege, akhi, Gurupad, achyuth, Dibyo, varuns88 and Milind


Monday, September 14, 2009

Where is he?

—srikanth @ 22:19

What “devices” connect:

Cracked by Advaith, Rogi, shrik, AmK, Debasish, Chinmaya U.Holla, sidsen, Sourya, Logik, prateekbhatt, achyuth and Dibyo


Sunday, September 13, 2009

Introducing.. bbprofiles

—devadutta @ 21:52

You can now view all your Boiledbeans stats in one place with the new bbprofiles feature. I had some extra hours this weekend, so churned out this long pending feature.

The profile page right now contains stats and runlengths, but we request you to update the following on your profile, so that we can add them to the profile page too.

  1. Photo – Some of you have uploaded a pic, but those who have not, please do it
  2. About yourself
  3. Your blog – We are planning to roll out another feature, which will need this. So please update your blog links

bbprofiles has a newly introduced “Ranks” as a stat. So, do check it out

Here are some screenshots

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Do let us know if you like this feature, we will make it better!

and oh.. the link

http://boiledbeans.net/bbprofile/?uname=your_user_name

example: http://boiledbeans.net/bbprofile/?uname=udupendra

or just click on your name in the Hall of Fame section


Sunday, September 13, 2009

-b + sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)

—devadutta @ 21:25

The dude in 1 developed A which was(is) astoundingly powerful, but was hard to use. Then, the dude in 2 implemented B around A to make it more usable by normal people like me. What is B?

  1. 192px-KnuthAtOpenContentAlliance 2. Leslie_Lamport

Quite deservingly, B has 2’s name in it.

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, shenoyvarun86, AmK, Raghuvansh, sidsen, krudebox, xtremevarun, Rogi, achyuth, shrik, username, Debasish, Anirudh, sandy, varuns88, Advaith, Dibyo, raklodramA, prateekbhatt, Sourya, emrohit, abhijeet, Ananth, Logik, HuhaBanda, svgreatest, udupendra, yaksha, Ajay Parasuram, Mr.Bay Leaf, Higgers, babszem and byslexia


Saturday, September 12, 2009

Sorry!

—srikanth @ 21:41

Guest question from Logik. Identify (1). He’s the author of book (2) and service (3) but has been in the news of late for a different reason.

Got a question?Send it to [email protected]!

Cracked by everyone.

Logik, udupendra, prateekbhatt, Chinmaya U.Holla, akhi, krudebox, Rogi, Debasish, Gurupad, AmK, achyuth, shenoyvarun86, abhijeet, shrik, Raghuvansh, xtremevarun, madhur, Mr.Bay Leaf, byslexia, Ananth, Sourya, sidsen, varuns88, sandy, raklodramA, Ajay Parasuram and Higgers