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2012

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Know when AutoRaja will mod an answer

—devadutta @ 02:26

New feature!

Main reason we were skipping moderating answers was that when we post a question late, we had no way of letting AutoRaja know when to mod that question. That has changed now! We can now specify exactly when AutoRaja should mod a question and you can see that too! Below a post title, like this

Please post answers before 0000 Hrs on the date notified on a question.


Buuuuzzzz

—devadutta @ 15:06

If you were playing this game, what will you be doing to help doctors?

Cracked by: Rogi, Bharath, Anjul, Ananth, badideabear, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, KK, rickde, Sujoy, Sumanth Patlolla and Bipin Banavalikar

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Awesome game that helps doctors with diagnosis of Malaria. More info here http://biogames.ee.ucla.edu/


Friday, May 4, 2012

Now at Infinity

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from Manish Achuth %gqh%. YAY!

Whose business card circa 1979?

Cracked by: bhargava, KK, Rogi, badideabear, Anjul, Bharath, Ananth, Vishnu Prashanth, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, raklodramA, rohanquizzer, Sujoy, vinayaknp and Sumanth Patlolla

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Steve Jobs


Friday, May 4, 2012

Calling for Community Moderators

—devadutta @ 13:30

Hello Folks,

We need help to moderate comments and fix bad correction by AutoRaja.

We need help for a lot of other things, but this is where we are going to start.

If you are willing to become a moderator, please leave a comment below and we will get in touch with you over email.

Your role (to start with) will be:

  • You will get an email if someone blames AutoRaja for bad correction
  • You can go and give points if you see the answer is right
  • Obviously, you cannot correct your own answer.

Thanks

Update: Thanks for the overwhelming response! We will be reaching out to you via email soon! The plan is to build the infrastructure in a way that it will split the task among multiple “Community Moderators”. That way, you will get an email about wrong correction only once in a while. Everybody wins! :)


Thursday, May 3, 2012

LEGO Warriors

—devadutta @ 02:35

Guest Question from %gqh% Rogi. yay!

In a recent TV campaign, these Lego blocks were shown as cartoon characters. If 1 was TMNT, 2 was the Smurfs, what was 3?

Cracked by: KK, Vishnu Prashanth, Sujoy, Jayaprakash B R, Logik, rickde, badideabear, Bharath, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, bhargava, Bipin Banavalikar, Ep, Rogi, Anjul, Ananth, Dibyo and raklodramA

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Asterix and Obelix


Wednesday, May 2, 2012

What? No Downvote?

—devadutta @ 14:48

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Bharath, Manish Achuth, Logik, badideabear, Sujoy, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Ep, Rogi, Anjul, Ananth, Dibyo, raklodramA and rickde

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Real-time Facebook ’likes’ displayed on Brazilian fashion retailer’s clothes racks


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Climb!

—devadutta @ 02:09

What are they “climbing”?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Vishnu Prashanth, Rogi, Bharath, badideabear, Logik, Manish Achuth, KK, Jayaprakash B R, rohanquizzer, Bipin Banavalikar, Ep, Dibyo and raklodramA

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Penrose Stairs


Monday, April 30, 2012

Like a motorcycle

—devadutta @ 09:50

Humble beginnings of a now super popular site. Which?

P.S: Will auto mod in 3 days.

Cracked by: Anjul, badideabear, Bharath, Sujoy, Rogi, KK, rickde, Ananth, Manish Achuth and Sumanth Patlolla

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Kickstarter.com


Sunday, April 29, 2012

That's so meta.

—srikanth @ 10:46

(1) lead to (2). Story plz?

BTW, (2) eventually led to something else, which we’ve asked about before!

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Bharath, badideabear, Sujoy, Manish Achuth, KK, rickde and Ananth

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Sara Winge (a VP at O’Reilly) jokingly wanted to host a “Foo Bar” - a bar for Friends Of O’Reilly. This eventually morphed into the creation of Foo Camp (Friends Of O’Reilly camp), an annual-ish conference. Eventually, a Foo Bar was actually hosted at one of the Foo camps.


Saturday, April 28, 2012

Fly, Robin, Fly

—srikanth @ 23:59

Two questions. (A) What is this? and (B) Why don’t we all have one already?!. OK, you don’t need to answer (B).

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Bharath, badideabear, Manish Achuth, KK, rickde, Ananth and Dibyo

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