Boiledbeans

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2010

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Aim to misbehave failed

—srikanth @ 23:59

A simple question (with a slightly long answer?). Why was this device named so?

Cracked by everybody.

shrey, jowens, Logik, Dibyo, Rogi, krudebox, Ananth, Anjul, shrik, v.chandrashekar, Bharath, username, Vasanth Kamath, Raghuvansh, byslexia, Debasish, udupendra, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, joe, lanu, Higgers, Rahulk, Qbrain, raklodramA, Vinay Nair Karath, Xanda, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Rahul Rajeev, vijayaraghavan, suhas, Gurupad and Manish Achuth


That guy

—devadutta @ 23:59

Nice question from udupendra %gqh%. Thanks Saar!

Whose old logo? Who is featured in the logo?

Cracked by: Rogi, Bharath, username, krudebox, v.chandrashekar, Goyal, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, Qbrain, udupendra, lanu, Atul Mathew, shrik, Xanda, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, Debasish, Logik, ht, Sumanth Patlolla, Vishnu, Dibyo, Vasanth Kamath, byslexia, Nanda, Thejas V R, dineshk, Rahul Rajeev, Ananth and jowens


Sunday, September 5, 2010

Power up!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Some ingenious dude(et) did this to a cycle track in a big US city. Where are these symbols from?

Sorry about the delay people. Long weekend here :)

Cracked by: shrik, Rogi, Ananth, jowens, Raghuvansh, Bharath, byslexia, Vinay Nair Karath, udupendra, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, username, v.chandrashekar, Qbrain, Xanda, Rahulk, ht, Anjul, Mo, Thejas V R, Dibyo and Rahul Rajeev


Saturday, September 4, 2010

*twist*, *twist*

—srikanth @ 23:59

An image doing the rounds on the net. Someone (X) is using this to explain something (Y). Solve for X and Y.

Cracked by everyone.

Logik, SV, jowens, Dibyo, byslexia, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Bharath, Atul Mathew, krudebox, Vinay Nair Karath, Manish Achuth, udupendra, raklodramA, Jean Valjean, Vishnu, shrik, Thejas V R, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, justajester, rohanquizzer, Anonymous, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Bheema V, username, Gurupad, v.chandrashekar, Niranjan G, Qbrain, Xanda and Rahul Rajeev


Friday, September 3, 2010

Professional Witness

—srikanth @ 23:59

Fully-formed guest question from Rogi - the latest winner of the shiny

The gentleman in (1) created the device in the foreground of (2) with all the stickers on it.
If you can tell us what the stickers are, we’ll assume you know who he is and what he created.

Got more questions? [email protected] awaits.

Cracked by jowens, Rogi, Bharath and shrik

Check out Rogi’s answer for the full details.


Thursday, September 2, 2010

The other phone

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple. What is this phone called? (It is blanked out in the image below)

Cracked by: jowens, krudebox, username, Rogi, Logik, Bharath, shrik, Dibyo, Ganesh Prasad, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, madhur, Jean Valjean, dheeraj, varuns88, vijayaraghavan, udupendra, Hitesh T S, v.chandrashekar, Rahulk, Gurupad, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Qbrain, Shwetha Maiya, Vinay Nair Karath, raklodramA and lanu


Wednesday, September 1, 2010

0 calories

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is connection?

Cracked by everyone.

Rogi, Dibyo, jowens, byslexia, shrik, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Gurupad, lanu, Qbrain, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, udupendra, Thejas V R, Vinay Nair Karath, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, nishansolo, username, Logik, Bharath, Bipin Banavalikar, Jean Valjean, dheeraj, varuns88 and v.chandrashekar


Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Lets choose the middle

—devadutta @ 23:40

First, a big round of applause to Logik for recording an unbeaten run-length of 50! You get this %soh% shiny badge, sire!

This questions is what some people refer to as “an old chestnut” :)

Which term in computer science is a reference to the " holy war" between inhabitants of the two Islands shown below?

The root-cause of the war was about how to break this

Cracked by: Atul Mathew, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Dibyo, Bheema V, v.chandrashekar, Bipin Banavalikar, shrik, Rahul Rajeev, jowens, krudebox, SV, Gurupad, Logik, Ananth, Anjul, Raghuvansh, Xanda, username, Bharath, Nanda, ht, parameswaran, Thejas V R, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, byslexia, Vinay Nair Karath, Qbrain, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, nishansolo, Inglourious, dineshk, akhi, vijayaraghavan, Rahulk and kapinjal

Show Answer

The terms little endian and big endian’s etymological roots can be traced to the book “Gulliver’s Travels” where people from the islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu fight a holy war because they cannot agree upon which side a boiled egg has to be broken from.


Monday, August 30, 2010

Ha Ha!-ic

—srikanth @ 23:59

These are examples of a certain class of devices (x) manufactured by a certain company (y). x & y?

Cracked by udupendra, username, vijayaraghavan, jowens, Bharath, shrik, Rogi, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Gurupad, raklodramA, lanu, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Bheema V, v.chandrashekar, Rahul Rajeev, krudebox, Logik, Qbrain and Shwetha Maiya


Sunday, August 29, 2010

The future is here?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify and connect.

We sent out mails to Boiledbeans t-shirt winners today. We do not have working email IDs for the following people.

username
Auysh Agarwal
vinay.tk

Please send an email to [email protected]

Cracked by: prasanth, Girish, shrik, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Logik, Gurupad, Rahul Rajeev, nishansolo, vijayaraghavan, Rogi, Ananth, Bharath, jowens, byslexia, Jean Valjean, v.chandrashekar, Rahulk, username, Anurag Sharma, Chaitanya, lanu, Bheema V, Qbrain, Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, raklodramA, joe, Xanda, Thejas V R and Shwetha Maiya

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Marty McFly wears a self lacing shoe in “Back to the future part 2” which was recently patented by Nike. They will probably bring it to production soon.