Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

2012

Friday, September 14, 2012

If you want to make apple pie from scratch..

—devadutta @ 07:43

Original members of which society? and whose face is blocked out?

Cracked by: Prabhu, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Ananth, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, vinayaknp, Supritha Maiya, KK and Dibyo

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Planetary Society and that is Mr. Carl Sagan blocked out.


Nerds got talent.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What are all these all about?

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth, mankuTimma and Manish Achuth

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Entries to Science Mag’s “Dance Your PhD” contest.


Wednesday, September 12, 2012

I expected them to be white..

—devadutta @ 23:32

Which company’s clothing line?

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Manish Achuth, KK, Supritha Maiya, Aparna, manas, Daniel Slack, Prabhu and Sujoy

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Apple, apparently!


Tuesday, September 11, 2012

!UFO

—devadutta @ 15:15

Identify

Cracked by: KK, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Rogi, Dibyo, Supritha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla and Ananth

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USAF’s project 1794, which might have contributed to about 100% of all UFO sightings.


Monday, September 10, 2012

Tick Tock Tick Tock

—devadutta @ 19:34

Identify and connect.

Great man. R.I.P.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, mankuTimma, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Mayukh Bose, Aparna, KK, Harsha, bhargava, Ananth, Dibyo and Supritha Maiya

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Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer


Sunday, September 9, 2012

No window?

—devadutta @ 11:14

Identify

Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, mankuTimma, Aparna, Jayaprakash B R, Sujoy, Ananth and Dibyo

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Space Shuttle Endeavor’s Flight Deck


Saturday, September 8, 2012

ROFL?

—srikanth @ 23:59

This is not a boiledbeans bug. But what is it?

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&lol9;

Cracked by: vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Rogi, Manish Achuth, KK, Prabhu, Ananth and mayank sharma

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The Billion Laughs XML - expands to a billion LOLs when parsed, effectively nuking any badly-written parser.


Friday, September 7, 2012

4x1e9

—devadutta @ 23:13

Explain

4,000,000,000 = 1x

Cracked by: mankuTimma, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, krudebox, Dibyo and Prabhu

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1 Carl Sagan has been defined as a unit of measurement equal to at least four billion, since the smallest number that may be described as billions and billions must be two billion plus two billion. Humor, Astrophysicist style


Thursday, September 6, 2012

Nigerian King?

—devadutta @ 16:20

Most of us can identify 1, that is not the question. Identify the man in 2. (2 is from the same time frame as 1)

Cracked by: Rogi, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, mankuTimma, KK, ala123, Dibyo and Supritha Maiya

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Hippolyte Bayard, who invented a competing process to Daguerreotype, supposedly before Louis Daguerre but could not take it in front of the French Academy of Sciences in time because Daguerre’s friend persuaded him not to.


Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Are you feeling lucky?

—devadutta @ 00:23

Fill in the blank. If

: :: : ______________

Cracked by: Aparna, KK and Dibyo

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FTP, Archie was one of the first search engines and it searched FTP sites.