Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

2014

Friday, March 28, 2014

Too muck ink?

—devadutta @ 13:27

Typography geek question. What are the highlighted regions known as?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Bipin Banavalikar, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo and Manish Achuth

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Ink Traps. An ink trap is a feature of certain typefaces, where the corners or details are removed from the letterforms. When the type is printed, ink naturally spreads into the removed area. Without ink traps, the excess ink would blob and ruin the crisp edge


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—devadutta @ 12:57

Identify

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, buk, Bipin Banavalikar, Supritha Maiya, AmK, KK and Jayaprakash B R

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Leslie Lamport, 2014 Turing Award Winner


Monday, March 10, 2014

Where is my towel?

—devadutta @ 20:09

What is this?

Cracked by: KK, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, VP, Rogi, AmK, Siddharth C S, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi and Supritha Maiya

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HHG2G, 30th Anniversary Edition.


Saturday, March 8, 2014

Family Time

—devadutta @ 13:40

What is this? Where can you find this?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, [email protected], Bipin Banavalikar, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Shwetha Maiya, AmK, Rogi, KK and Supritha Maiya

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In 1972, as part of the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, astronaut Charles Duke embarked on a mission to the explore the moon’s surface in a lunar roving vehicle. While there, he shot a picture of a photo of himself, his wife, and his two sons which was enclosed in plastic on the moon’s surface, where it remains to this day.


Tuesday, March 4, 2014

About Time

—devadutta @ 00:55

Who made these watches?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Rogi, AmK, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Shwetha Maiya and Supritha Maiya

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Intel. Well, Microma, but Intel.


Saturday, March 1, 2014

Naturally awesome

—devadutta @ 12:23

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya, s m muneer ali, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, bastet, Rogi, AmK and KK

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This is an animation of DNA replication by DNA polymerase.


Sunday, February 23, 2014

Thirsty?

—devadutta @ 20:35

Fill in the blanks. Water on ___________ discovered by ____________ .

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, s m muneer ali, AmK, buk, Rogi and Supritha Maiya

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Water on the Moon, discovered by Chandrayaan


Thursday, February 20, 2014

Don't forget the tab

—devadutta @ 11:49

What is this? How can you get it to appear?

Cracked by: AmK, Rakesh_KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Dibyo and Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi

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Zen of Python. import this in Python :)


Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Ask away!

—devadutta @ 15:01

What are these people providing proof for? Cookie points if you id 1 and 3. Negative cookie points if you cannot id 2.

Cracked by: Rakesh_KK, buk, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, Saarthak, AmK, Dibyo, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Dhruv and Rogi

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Famous people providing proof that they are themselves to the Reddit community.


Saturday, February 15, 2014

—devadutta @ 14:24

Who wrote this letter?

Cracked by: Supritha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Saarthak Sachdeva, KK, varun, s m muneer ali, Shwetha Maiya, buk, Bipin Banavalikar, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, AmK, Rogi, bablu and Mayukh Bose

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Carl Sagan, writing to Mr. Tyson