Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

May 2013

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Deeper

—devadutta @ 10:38

What is this a model of?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Bipin Banavalikar, Abhishek, Rogi, Ananth and Manish Achuth

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James Webb Telescope. All set to replace Hubble Telescope in some time.


Saturday, May 18, 2013

Dead Giveaway

—devadutta @ 02:34

Who is this?

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Anjul, Abhishek, Rogi and Ananth

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Bjarne Stroustrup, Creator of C++


Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Sorry Dave

—devadutta @ 23:36

Who is Dave’s replacement (blocked out in red)?

Yes, this is an xkcd comic.

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, buk, Dibyo, Abhishek, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya, Pawankumar Hegde, ameen, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla and vinayaknp

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GLaDOS! http://xkcd.com/375/


Saturday, May 11, 2013

Momentum

—devadutta @ 11:19

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

What is being demonstrated here?

Cracked by: Abhishek, Anjul, Manish Achuth and Rogi

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Galilean Cannon


Friday, May 10, 2013

When there is an itch..

—devadutta @ 21:14

Identify the programming language

Cracked by: Rakesh Rao R, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Abhishek, Hari K Raghavan, Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya and ameen

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MIT Media lab’s Scratch


Thursday, May 9, 2013

Under 20

—devadutta @ 13:46

Somebody is paying these kids $100,000 to quit college. Who?

Cracked by: Abhishek, Rogi, KK, Sumanth Patlolla and Bipin Banavalikar

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Peter Thiel’s 20 under 20.


Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Hot & Cold

—devadutta @ 14:36

Quite popular Kickstarter project. Explain who this thing generates electricity. Drop in key words to make AutoRaja happy.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, rickde, Abhishek, Manish Achuth, fifthape, Ananth and Dibyo

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This post has a thermocouple. The botton is heated and the top is cooled by water. Generating electricity.


Tuesday, May 7, 2013

I swear to not write buggy code

—devadutta @ 10:52

Fill in the blanks. This is a ring worn by Canadian ___________ and it is called _______ Ring. It reminds them of their duties.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, Ananth, Rahul Manghnani, Abhishek, vinayaknp, Dibyo, Vaibhav, KK, rickde, Riyaz Usman, Manish Achuth, the.invincible, fifthape and Rakesh Rao R

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This is a ring worn by Canadian Engineers and it is called the Iron Ring. It reminds them of their duties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring


Monday, May 6, 2013

Where you upload your neat, formal looking head shot

—devadutta @ 00:17

10 years ago. Which site?

Cracked by: Rahulk, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Abhishek, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Ananth, VP, Rahul Manghnani, vinayaknp, KK, rickde, Riyaz Usman and Anjul

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LinkedIn in 2003.


Sunday, May 5, 2013

Double Appropriate

—devadutta @ 18:08

Latest release code name for what?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, Abhishek, Manish Achuth, Ananth, KK, rickde and Riyaz Usman

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Debian 7.0 Wheezy, everybody!