Category: Rigged Timestamp
Humor. Microsoft style.
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Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Ananth, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Bharath, Vishnu Prashanth, Don42 and rickde
The People pane silhouette in Outlook is supposedly derived from the famous Bill Gate’s mug shot!
Borderline non-geek guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth. Thanks Saar!
What is this?
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Jump to conclusions mat from Office Space
A livejournal entry by this lady changed an entire industry (although not too much). Who is she? What did she do?
Cracked by: Bharath, KK, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Supritha Maiya and Shwetha Maiya
Erin Hoffman. Created a blog called the “EA Spouse” where she described the way EA employees were being overworked. The post caused a huge furore and a few changes in the industry, and slightly better working conditions.
This question is more PR than quiz, but for a worthy cause :P
What’s the hullabaloo about?
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Valve’s in-progress port of Steam to Linux. That’s L4D being played on Ubuntu!
(1) was looking for nonsense words and picked a commonly used phrase in (2) to create (3). 1, and 3 please.
Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy
What is happening here?
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Google Streetview trekker
What “problem”/paradox does this graph show?
If I told you what pair the Y-Axis was, I would be telling you the answer.
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Birthday Paradox
Yay! More astronomy questions!
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Large Binocular Telescope, one of the most advanced telescopes in the world
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First ever photo of the moon taken by John William Draper
Pretty strange question, but nevertheless: which company’s logo is inspired by this function?
Pseudobonus points for the significance of said function.
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Broadcom logo, inspired by the so-called Sinc function (sin(x)/x). Holds lot of special significance, especially in the world of signal processing.