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January 2012

Saturday, January 21, 2012

...Aaand we're back

—srikanth @ 23:59

OK folks, multiple questions per day from now on till we try and catch up again.

Question - Who imitating who doing what?

(Question will be modded on the 6th)

Cracked by: KK, Sumanth Patlolla, finkle, rickde, Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, jowens, Amarendra Kumar, tsmyelin, Godzilla101, Ananth, shrik, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA and Rahulk

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Quoting Rahulk


Sorry :(

—srikanth @ 23:59

Hello folks,

This is not a question - it’s an apology for not posting for the last few days. I’ve been swamped with work, and Devadutta’s going through some big life changes at the moment :)

We’ll get right back to posting starting tomorrow, and I’ll be posting multiple questions per day to make sure we catch up.

Thanks so much for your patience!

In the meantime, if you would like to donate time to the recovery efforts, we would like a few questions from you guys/girls! Please send them in to [email protected] if you’ve got something for us.


Thursday, January 19, 2012

Ha-choo!

—srikanth @ 23:59

Guest question from Manish Achuth %gqh%

  1. Identify the man.
  2. He was an assistant to someone. Who?
  3. And what first does this “Movie” have?


In the wake of all the SOPA/PIPA (yeno papa) talk going around, this does seem fairly relevant :)

(This question will be modded on the 24th)

Ok, I’ll level with you - we’re desperately in need of guest questions :| Send in anything you’ve got! [email protected]

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, finkle, Bharath, Ananth, Amarendra Kumar, rickde, Rogi, jowens, Nandha K Samy, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, Bipin Banavalikar, Vishwas B Sharma, KK, soda buddi, rohanquizzer, shrik, Shwetha Maiya, Hari K Raghavan, raklodramA and Rahulk


Wednesday, January 18, 2012

It's the final countdown (ta da daa daaa)

—srikanth @ 23:59

What are these? Or rather, more importantly, how did we get these?

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bd3aeaf14e8485828337dfe75c498b69.mid] (link)

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/13a1be29dce845c3e45a72da10930558.mid] (link)

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/26e57cfc37fcc87ecf07009b79d7e50b.mid] (link)

Here’s a clue:

(This question will be modded on the 24th)
Cracked by: Bharath, rickde, Rogi, jowens, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, shrik, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

I CAN HAZ BS?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Veery borderline geeky. What special achievement connects:

  1. Colby Nolan
  2. George/Chris Jackson
  3. Henrietta/Ben Goldacre
  4. Kitty O’Malley
  5. Sassafrass Herbert
  6. Sonny/John Licciardello

This is, sadly, not an exhaustive list at all. There are many more.

(Question will be modded on the 22nd)

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, rohanquizzer, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, jowens, Bharath, Rogi, Vishwas B Sharma, Amarendra Kumar, akhi, Manish Achuth, tsmyelin, badideabear, shrik, finkle, Ananth, Gurupad, soda buddi and Shwetha Maiya


Monday, January 16, 2012

I can see right through you.

—srikanth @ 23:59

(1) was the first and, believe it or not, the paper it was published in was rejected! The technique did take hold though and grew to become very popular. (2) was the first of a body part.

What technique?

The technique goes by multiple names - we’ll be liberal with the points.

(Question will be modded on the 22nd)

Cracked by: rohanquizzer, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, jowens, Bharath, Rogi, finkle, Vishwas B Sharma, Amarendra Kumar, Manish Achuth, tsmyelin, badideabear, shrik, Ananth, Gurupad and Raghuvansh


Sunday, January 15, 2012

Up, Down, Up , Down, Up, Down - 3rd times the charm?

—srikanth @ 23:59

A relatively recent rumour about the 4 things below was “created” by a very popular book. What’s the rumour?

(Will be modded on the 22nd)

Cracked by: rohanquizzer, KK, Anonymous, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, jowens, Bharath, Vishwas B Sharma, akhi, rickde, Manish Achuth, tsmyelin, badideabear and shrik


Saturday, January 14, 2012

Abbreviate abbreviate abbreviate!

—srikanth @ 20:59

(1) is to (2) as (3) is to what?

Cracked by: Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, shrik, rohanquizzer, jowens, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Ananth and debjani

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Kernighan and Plauger (3) created the book “Elements of Programming style” - with a theme similar to the famous book “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White.


Friday, January 13, 2012

Is there an app for this too?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Stumbled across this bit of computer history recently. 3 examples of what technology?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Rogi, rickde, Manish Achuth, Ananth, shrik, rohanquizzer, jowens, Vishwas B Sharma, KK, badideabear and tsmyelin

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The Cauzin Softstrip - an early commercial 2D barcode system. These strips encode entire computer programs - you see 3 examples of software distributed as softstrips!


Thursday, January 12, 2012

Say WHEN

—srikanth @ 23:59

Plaintext question. Obviously, rampant googling might occur, but then again we trust you to not do it, so please don’t :P

“Formal” syntax of what?
Accept-Additions = “Accept-Additions” “:”
#( addition-range [ accept-params ] )

    addition-type   = ( "*"
                      | milk-type
                      | syrup-type
                      | sweetener-type
                      | spice-type
                      | alcohol-type
                      ) *( ";" parameter )
    milk-type       = ( "Cream" | "Half-and-half" | "Whole-milk"
                      | "Part-Skim" | "Skim" | "Non-Dairy" )
    syrup-type      = ( "Vanilla" | "Almond" | "Raspberry"
                      | "Chocolate" )
    alcohol-type    = ( "Whisky" | "Rum" | "Kahlua" | "Aquavit" )

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Rogi, rickde, Manish Achuth, Ananth, shrik, Vishwas B Sharma, rohanquizzer, KK, Shwetha Maiya, siddhanthrao and jowens

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The HTCPCP : Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol