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—srikanth @ October 19, 2011

You can probably figure out this company’s founding history from the logo.

What company?

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HP spinoff DYNAC


Look Up.

—srikanth @ October 18, 2011

What is this?

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A full version of Zork I is playable on a computer terminal in the interrogation room in the 2010 game Call of Duty: Black Ops where it unlocks the achievement or bronze trophy (Xbox 360 or PS3, respectively) called “Eaten by a Grue”. Quoting Rahulk


No pets.

—srikanth @ October 17, 2011

A very cool guest question from user raklodramA %gqh%. What is this?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Urthstripe, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Rogi, Logik, jowens, Bharath, KK, Rahulk, raklodramA, Aditya S, Jayaprakash B R, Ananth, vishwanath, piezocake, Mayukh Bose, Shwetha Maiya and mankuTimma

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When the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from the moon, they filled out a customs form and declared their cargo.


It is imperative.

—srikanth @ October 11, 2011

Identify the standing man (left).

:-(

Cracked by: KK, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, badideabear, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, mankuTimma, Jayaprakash B R, raklodramA, username, shrik, Rahulk, Bipin Banavalikar, Bharath-TK, Siddarth Pai, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, Rogi, Ganesh Prasad, Logik, Amarendra Kumar, Urthstripe, Anjul, Aditya S, jowens, sandeep bhat, Rahul Rajeev, Mayukh Bose and Raghuvansh

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Dennis Ritchie - co-creator of the C programming language. Passed away around the weekend of October 8th 2011. Exact news is not out yet (as of 12th oct).


+50 Bonus points for anyone who puts up a video singing the poem

—srikanth @ October 10, 2011

Identify the real person:

More hints: This is linked to the previous question.

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, shrik, Urthstripe, Urthstripe, Amarendra Kumar, Thejas V R, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Rogi, Ananth, KK, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, mankuTimma, username, Rahulk, Bipin Banavalikar, Siddarth Pai, Shwetha Maiya, Aditya S and raklodramA

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F.X. Reid is the pen-name of British CS professor Mike W Shields.


Not considered 'that' harmful

—srikanth @ October 9, 2011

A formal treatment of a very informal concept. But people actually went on to implement it, though. What is blanked out?

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The COMEFROM statement, a peculiar perversion of GOTO that has actually found real implementations. WTF.


And instead of Pt. Ravishankar, they had Devadutta?

—srikanth @ October 8, 2011

Poster for what event?

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An event called w00tstock - some kind of unholy combination of a concert and a Linux convention, i suppose :)


Bad breath?

—srikanth @ October 3, 2011

Key part of what company/product’s logo?

Cracked by: badideabear, KK, username, raklodramA, Rogi, Amarendra Kumar, Thejas V R, Rahul Rajeev, Dibyo, Aditya S, Girish, Manish Achuth, jowens, shrik, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, Rahulk, vishwanath, Bharath and Sumanth Patlolla

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This is the logo of Gumstix a company that produces a line of single-board linux based computers that are each the size of a stick of gum.


Wait till Bezos sees this one...

—srikanth @ October 1, 2011

What’s blanked out, and who wrote this letter?

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Mathematics Inc - a fictional company that EW Dijkstra created to commercialize mathematics. This document describes his difficulties in trying to take a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis and get royalties from it.


Where am I?!

—srikanth @ September 30, 2011

Seemingly simple. Identify the place, and its (more?) famous fictional counterpart.

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