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Woah.

—srikanth @ December 9, 2011

What is this used for?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, shrik, jowens, Rogi, tanwi, rohanquizzer, Ananth, badideabear, thiru d gr8, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, Anjul, Rahulk, Prasad, finkle, Raghuvansh, Vishwas B Sharma, Rajesh, Tyler Swinehart, KK and Shwetha Maiya

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A rig used to create the ‘bullet-time’ effect popularized by The Matrix.


we need more people!

—srikanth @ December 7, 2011

Famous illustration of animals in tar pits. Why is it famous?

Cracked by: Vishwas B Sharma, shrik, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Jon Strahl, KK, Manish Achuth, Rogi, SV, badideabear, Aditya S, Rahulk, Dibyo, rohanquizzer, Mayukh Bose, Bharath, jowens, Thejas V R, Ananth, vinayaknp, Inglourious, Shwetha Maiya, finkle, Raghuvansh and raklodramA

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The cover of the mythical man month - the famous book on large scale software dev by Fred Brooks


What made him think of something like this?

—srikanth @ November 23, 2011

What is this picture depicting?

Cracked by Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Amarendra Kumar, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, badideabear, rickde, Bharath, Vishwas B Sharma, shrik, jinz, KK, Ananth and raklodramA


Transfer now?

—devadutta @ November 20, 2011

Screenshot of a text block question. You are very likely to have have seen this folder structure. This is an old industry standard and it is prevalent even now.

What is blocked in green? For bonus cookie points, tell us what it stands for.

Cracked by: shrik, jowens, Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Rahulk, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, badideabear, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath and raklodramA

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DCIM. Design rule for Camera File system / DCF. The stuff you see on your camera SD card.


Forget nasal drops

—devadutta @ November 19, 2011

Just another day, just another robot. For the Japanese maybe. What spooky as hell function does this “cute” looking robot do?

Cracked by: Rogi, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Ananth, Rahulk, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, Thejas V R, Vishwas B Sharma, Aditya S, jinz, jowens, shrik, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, rickde, krudebox, Bharath and Siddarth Pai

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“Jukusui-Kun” that wakes up snoring people. Mad.


MOV AX,BX

—devadutta @ November 18, 2011

40 years ago, X was invented to go into 1. Later, the company that made X realized its potential and became very rich and famous. Identify X.

Cracked by: shrik, mankuTimma, sandeep bhat, Sanador, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, finkle, Rogi, Dibyo, badideabear, KK, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R, Bipin Banavalikar, Thejas V R, Vishwas B Sharma, Aditya S, jowens, rini, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Siddarth Pai and rickde

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Intel 4004 that was made to go into a Busicom calculator.


0 1 1 2 3 5

—devadutta @ November 16, 2011

This kid became very famous for inventing 2. All mainstream press covered it and hailed him as king. Until someone disproved his results. Who he? What is 2?

Cracked by: jowens, Bharath, shrik, KK, badideabear, Dibyo, Jayaprakash B R, Aditya S, Bipin Banavalikar, UDit, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Vishwas B Sharma, mankuTimma, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, raklodramA, Ananth, Logik, rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, Vicky, Amarendra Kumar and rickde

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Aidan Dwyer and his Fibonacci solar tree. Supposedly works miracles. Proven wrong though.


Did they meet Marvin?

—devadutta @ November 14, 2011

These people “went to Mars” and came back. Who are they? Where did they actually go?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Anjul, jowens, shrik, meenakshi, Manish Achuth, Rogi, KK, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, shivathilak, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Sanjeet Dash, Rahulk, Bipin Banavalikar, finkle, Bharath, Prabhu DC, Thejas V R, Ananth, Aditya S, Siddarth Pai, thiru d gr8, Subhrajeet C, Sri Krishna, Amarendra Kumar and rickde

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Mars 500


*fingers crossed*

—srikanth @ November 12, 2011

Identify this unfortunate traveller.

Cracked by jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, finkle, Bharath, Rogi, KK, Sanjeet Dash, Aditya S, raklodramA, Rahulk, badideabear, Ananth, Thejas V R, shrik, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma, Shwetha Maiya, Prabhu DC, Vishwas B Sharma, Sri Krishna and rickde


What, like the drugs?

—srikanth @ November 10, 2011

Plain text question. Very obviously searchable but pliss to refrain from searching to answer this, plzkthx.

This description led to something. What?

“Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc, then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your customer base.”

Cracked by jowens, badideabear, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, vkamath, Rogi, Thejas V R, finkle, KK, Ananth, Dibyo, Sanjeet Dash, Aditya S, raklodramA, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, shivathilak, Bipin Banavalikar, Logik, Godzilla101, Shwetha Maiya, Vishwas B Sharma, shrik and rickde