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My Kid, My OSS

—devadutta @ June 13, 2014

This dude is the creator of one of the most widely used OSS. He named it after his first daughter. Later, when he did not like the direction his creation was taking, he forked the project and named it after his younger daughter. Not to leave his son ‘Max’ disappointed, he also created another OSS and named it after him.

Who is he?

Cracked by: s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, kmk1018, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar and Manish Achuth

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‘Monty’ Michael Widenius - Creator of MySQL, MariaDB and MaxDB.


Pass!

—devadutta @ June 11, 2014

Name the kid and tell us his claim to fame

Cracked by: Rogi, buk, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Bablu and Satish

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Eugene Goostman, supposedly passes Turing test!


Two for Friday

—devadutta @ May 9, 2014

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.

Be a Guest Question hero. Send in your question to [email protected]

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.


64k Jump

—devadutta @ May 5, 2014

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 :)


One Dollar

—devadutta @ May 4, 2014

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.


Not in wonderland

—devadutta @ May 2, 2014

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.


Reserved

—devadutta @ April 27, 2014

Reserved Parking spots in UC Berkeley. For who?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Adarsh Kumar Mohapatra, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, Satish, Anjul, Jayaprakash B R, Manish Achuth, vijeeth srinivas, Suman Kujur, Mayukh Bose and Supritha Maiya

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Nobel Laureates Parking lot in UCB.


Too muck ink?

—devadutta @ March 28, 2014

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


itle{Congratulations}

—devadutta @ March 18, 2014

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


Where is my towel?

—devadutta @ March 10, 2014

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.