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May 2014

Friday, May 9, 2014

Two for Friday

—devadutta @ 11:05

Two guest questions today! Yay!

  1. %gqh% Rogi asks

You’ve heard of the Jacquard Loom? This is on the other end of that spectrum. What was the method used, called? We will accept the proper term or the humorous acronym.


  1. %gqh% Manish Achuth asks

What is this guy holding? He basically proved something that happened in 1983.

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Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R, Bipin Banavalikar and Siddharth C S

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Answer 1: “Little Old Ladies” or “LOL” was the term used for the programming or rope core memory like that used in early space probes and the Apollo Guidance Module’s memory core.


Monday, May 5, 2014

64k Jump

—devadutta @ 10:51

Epic jump. Who is jumping over a chair here? (Warning: Gif)

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Siddharth C S, buk, Jayaprakash B R, Mayukh Bose, Bipin Banavalikar and s m muneer ali

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Bill Gates jumping over a chair on primetime TV. Aah the excitement of 1994 :)


Sunday, May 4, 2014

One Dollar

—devadutta @ 10:33

These things are very popular in the US and they work really well. This is how it looks from the inside. What is this?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Siddharth C S, Rogi, Anjul, Bablu, Mayukh Bose, Bipin Banavalikar and Supritha Maiya

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The Redbox. DVD vending machine.


Friday, May 2, 2014

Not in wonderland

—devadutta @ 13:50

Many people believe R in 1 was making a reference to 2 in his 1977 paper on a technology that is now widely used. Since then, people use it in every single paper written in that field of study.

What are we talking about?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Rogi and Sumanth Patlolla

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Placeholder names: Alice and Bob.