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Mahesh Herle (September 17, 2007 at 08:23 PM):

Dudes !!! The Time should display the zone as well I don;t knwo if 10:30am is Indian Time or US Time.

Srikanth (September 17, 2007 at 11:37 PM):

Mahesh: Done. :-)

Mahesh Herle (September 18, 2007 at 08:17 PM):

Dude… whats the number past the GMT-0700 ???

Mahesh Herle (September 18, 2007 at 08:32 PM):

The “Submit Comment” is a text-only thing. Since the replies ARE moderated, can’t you give an option to of a rich html editor ALONG with plain-text editor [i don’t know if i can get the rich text editor to work in my mobile’s browser].

devadutta (September 18, 2007 at 09:23 PM):

@Mahesh: It means you have to subtract 7hrs from GMT :)

and we don’t see a need for rich text editors in the comment section. If you can tell us the specific reason why you want it, we can add it.

Mahesh Herle (September 21, 2007 at 01:32 AM):

I just wanted to add links in a nice manner. Even though the page translates the URLs to links, it makes it come as it is….
even if you can parse the posts that will be good.
something [italic]like[/italic] [url=http://…]My Link Text[/url] etc

devadutta (September 21, 2007 at 06:25 PM):

@Mahesh: We have added TinyMCE support as an experiment to test your suggestion. Let us see how the other users react :)
You can **bold, ***italic, *underline, and link
Using the brilliant TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor.
Also, if your browser does not support js, you will see the plain old test box :)

Mahesh Herle (October 11, 2007 at 07:59 PM):

lo. makla…. enro logo adu… it looks like a cheap horror movie logo…. especially the red “beans”… :)
But the icon is nice. Also, u seemed to have forgotten to update it in the About and the Feedback links.

Dudes… of late… i can’t seem to answer any Qs…. and i’m a bit losing intereset because of that. Consider throwing in some easy Qs, for people like us, so that we can think we too are geeks and visit the next day.

and where the hell did the tagline go… ? it was good.

devadutta (October 12, 2007 at 09:48 PM):

@Mahesh:*
“it looks like a cheap horror movie logo…. especially the red “beans”… :)”*
We have received more positive reactions than negetive, so we are going to keep it.
*
" But the icon is nice. Also, u seemed to have forgotten to update it in the About and the Feedback links."*
Thanks. Will be fixed.
*
*“Dudes… of late… i can’t seem to answer any Qs…. and i’m a bit losing intereset because of that. Consider throwing in some easy Qs, for people like us, so that we can think we too are geeks and visit the next day.”

Today’s q is pretty simple :) Put up for you

“and where the hell did the tagline go… ? it was good.”
This will be back…

And thanks a lot for all the suggestions maga.. we appreciate it :)

Gammafunction (October 18, 2007 at 08:54 PM):

How about having more points for super tough questions.As you can see Yaksha and Udupendra are streaking away from the rest of the field.there must be some way to catch up with them quickly :-)

and yes,This is a great site and keep up the good work!

devadutta (October 18, 2007 at 11:18 PM):

@Gammafunction: Thats a good idea and we will see what we can do. At-least we will add a “Top Scorers of the month” section of some such :)

Actually, the run-lenghts section was added to assist other users to make it to the front page.. if you see there, yaksha and udupendra are not 1 & 2 :)

and yes, thanks for linking to this page, we saw many hits from your blog..

Keep visiting and keep linking :)

sidsen (November 03, 2007 at 11:18 AM):

O well guess i should have refreshed the page before submitting. But in my defence i always thought we had time till 12.

devadutta (November 03, 2007 at 02:21 PM):

@sidsen: Point given.

Shakeel (November 12, 2007 at 10:31 AM):

Dudes I have correctly answered the Nov 12 th question(Hedy Lamarr),no points for me ??–:(

devadutta (November 12, 2007 at 10:57 AM):

@Shakeel: Point given. Sorry about the goof up :)

Shakeel (November 12, 2007 at 10:42 PM):

not a problem…:) nice site to know new things

Mahesh (November 18, 2007 at 10:28 PM):

Can you make your posts categorised ?
Like say: Physics, Humor, Announcements, Computers etc… and apply these categories to a Question once the answer has been posted for a Question (and also to all the Questions posted by now) ?

Of course, the categories need to be listed on the side-pane. The current option of monthly list is not sufficient in itself… Currently, there is noway to se all the [old] questions related to ComputerScience.

devadutta (November 19, 2007 at 11:05 PM):

@Mahesh: Nice idea :)
We will try to incorporate it.
Thanks again!

Keerthi Kiran M (November 20, 2007 at 09:57 PM):

Dudes,
I’ve answered correctly but no points given to me. :(

Srikanth (November 20, 2007 at 11:16 PM):

@Keerthi: I must’ve missed it.. Sorry about that. You have your points now.

sidsen (November 21, 2007 at 11:33 AM):

Four Whinings and a Feedback

1. my total should as per my run length would total to 28. 28 plus the 2 for theme makes it 30 not 29.
2. why 2 for theme? “bobo, sidsen, Gammafunction and nisha’s thambi got the theme! 2 points added to their totals” it should be 3 for the theme, since next set of people also seem to have gotten 2 for getting the theme. so make that 31 not 30.
3. In re: scores after this round are - “This section shows 5 boiledbeans users who have scored the highest points in the past 15 questions.” Consequently it should be impossible to be a round topper with 16 points. slight revision on that front required possibly.
4. you guys have made me ultra dedic and ultra competetive. can’t believe i’m griping bout scores. ridiculous… and i blame you guys. evil people luring poor innocent people in to vices of evil addiction.

and the constructive feedback bit being that i really really liked the idea of the theme rounds. several more of those should be the order of the day. possibly also, and of course i’m blatantly copying arul’s original idea out here, may be you guys could try some thing to the modified effect of the KQA “Go Ogle” type of thing. Say once a month, set of 20-25 odd questions free for all thingy. Just a thought. Of course it might not go with the one bit of poison a day trend you guys have running.

sidsen (November 21, 2007 at 11:54 AM):

o and is my screen just dirty or is there a tiny micro mini smiley down there? :)

Srikanth (November 21, 2007 at 10:40 PM):

@sidsen:

All whining/feedback welcome. Both help us improve, and also we can gleefully laugh at how we torment our users :-)

1 and 2) Yup, its a mistake. My caffeine levels were dangerously low when I posted that. All of you who answered that now have 3 points extra in total (1 for the answer, 2 for the theme).

3. Good point. We’ll fix that to make it read properly soon. We’ll either change the name, or just change the points system (by counting the max number of answers, rather than total scores)

4. It’s a feature, not a bug. :-)

Yeah, we liked the theme rounds idea a lot too. The problem with running this is that we have to stay in synch across timezones and jobs and what not. So, we will do more theme rounds in the future, but not too many of them. Till then, it’s one ‘hit’ a day :-).

Tathagata Chatterjee (November 24, 2007 at 01:58 AM):

I have answered autostereogram correctly, yet my name is not mentioned,
regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee

Srikanth (November 24, 2007 at 10:43 AM):

@Tathagata Chatterjee: Some bug in the code. We’ve fixed it now… Thanks :)

Keerthi Kiran M (November 27, 2007 at 01:25 AM):

Hey, how about putting photos/profiles of all the geeks so that we’ll come to know each other?

shivathilak (November 28, 2007 at 01:13 AM):

[censored]Had a question suggestion[/censored]
Thanks! But next time, please mail it to [email protected]

shivathilak (November 28, 2007 at 09:46 PM):

will do!!

devadutta (November 29, 2007 at 10:54 AM):

@Keerthi Kiran M: Nice idea. We will add the feature sometime :)
Thanks!

Prithvi (December 05, 2007 at 07:39 AM):

Hey guys….this site is neat..
do u plan to have a real time online session…
will find out whos fast with google…or otherwise..
no offense meant.

devadutta (December 05, 2007 at 10:31 AM):

@Prithvi: “Real time online session” sounds really interesting, but we need to come up with code which can handle that. If we manage to pull together that much code, we will surely have a real-time session.

shenoyvarun86 (December 08, 2007 at 09:12 PM):

Shenoyvarun86 and Varun are the same!
So my score is2:-)

Vivek (December 12, 2007 at 02:07 AM):

I landed up here from a link on a blog that i hate but sometime read.

awesome stuff.

Look like bejan bengaluru boys here.Or at least kandu junta.

Namaskara…!!!

devadutta (December 12, 2007 at 09:28 AM):

@Varun: Please pick one of the names and tell us which one you will be using. Your scores will be migrated.
Thanks

shenoyvarun86 (December 12, 2007 at 05:53 PM):

ill use shenoyvarun86

‘cause Lorem Ipsum was got by one other varun and I got it wrong
till date I have got only Uwe Boll and HAL/S
Thanks!

devadutta (December 13, 2007 at 01:00 PM):

@Vivek: Namaskara! Welcome..

Dibyo (December 14, 2007 at 10:12 PM):

hey… i did get the UAC question right!!!!

devadutta (December 14, 2007 at 10:47 PM):

@Dibyo: Fixed.

Gammafunction (December 18, 2007 at 10:20 AM):

its getting a lil’ boring in here

devadutta (December 19, 2007 at 06:35 PM):

@Gammafunction: Some proper jing-bang stuff is coming up, so please keep your RC circuits tuned :)

In the meantime, please suggest ways we can get better.

Also, tell us what in particular is nuking the interestingness of boiledbeans.
The questions? The answers? The crowd? The quizmasters? The logo? lack of lolcats?

Let us know.

Thanks

Mahesh (December 23, 2007 at 08:22 PM):

It’s a pain in the “browser” to goto multiple pages to see the answers/comments of each questions.

Update the site so that u can just click on the “Answers” and “Comments” link, and the content just expands right there. Make sure that by default, section is collapsed.

A Helpful Link:
http://www.ekcsoft.com/coding/js/expandable_list/

sidsen (December 24, 2007 at 11:52 PM):

Re: Special Round

au contraire, each person who sent in question and whose question was put up should be given a point for the effort. three jolly good reasons for this crop to mind -

Firstly, it acts as an incentive to people to send in more questions. there is value add to the effort and consequently people will actuall pull up their socks and make that effort.

Secondly, it doesn’t end up penalizing people who have sent in questions. For example while every one whose questions haven’t been put up get shots at extra points, people whose questions are up lose out on the points. the logic should instead be that people who sent in the question should be deemed to know the answer and be given the point for it anyway, and a chance to get all 6 points by cracking the questions sent by others.

Thirdly and the most convincing argument to my mind is that it is three easy points for me :)

QED

Srikanth (December 27, 2007 at 10:17 AM):

@Mahesh:
We’ve thought about that idea, and the main problem with that is that there are many people who run browsers that don’t support Javascript (or they disable JS for security reasons), and the answer would be visible directly to them, in effect wasting the question.

But, your point is taken. We will look into this and see if we can add the inline expansion in a way that gracefully fails for UAs that don’t support JS. Thanks for the suggestion sir!

Srikanth (December 27, 2007 at 10:18 AM):

@sidsen: Yup, as you suggested, we’ve done it for the most recent guest-gala post. (Now if you’ll please pay up as you promised for the extra points, we can get on with life ;-))

shenoyvarun86 (January 01, 2008 at 06:22 PM):

sire,why not include a theme round as in say a question for a week based on some theme(say Mechanics!) and that will carry 2-3 points….
well this was a prospective effort to improve the pathetic score that I have and to extend the lead of the “God” to an insurmountable number!!!

gammafunction (January 30, 2008 at 09:21 AM):

I was just going through the archives…and the first question that I answered i.e q no.7… I have not been given points for that….or do the points start after that or something….

devadutta (January 30, 2008 at 03:49 PM):

@gammafunction: Nice find! Point given.

Anonymous (January 31, 2008 at 04:53 AM):

Hi, Tathagata Chatterjee here. I have no ben credited for the point which I have earned by answering the “Ho ho ho” question. And if you backcalculate, I am still leading from SidSen by a point, whereas you have equated us on the point scale. Pl rectify,
Regards,

Tathagata Chatterjee (January 31, 2008 at 05:00 AM):

I have answered the NORAD question ( “Ho ho ho”) correctly but you have not awarded me with the points and also did not credit me. Request you to kindly do the needful.
I should be a point higher than SidSen with this NORAD answer.
Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee

srikanth (January 31, 2008 at 09:59 AM):

Tathagata : You’ve posted as Anonymous there. I can give you the points if you post while logged in.

Tathagata Chatterjee (January 31, 2008 at 09:06 PM):

Yes, I have posted as anonymous, but I have signed my name as what it is at the end of the mail.Thats proves my identity.
Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee

devadutta (January 31, 2008 at 09:23 PM):

@Tathagata Chatterjee: It proves your identity to us, but not to the back-end code :)

All scoring is automated and integrated into the back-end, so if you post as anonymous, points will go to “Anonymous” but not you.

So, only if you post while logged in, a point will get assigned to your user name.

So, pls go ahead and re-post a comment while you are logged in and we will give you the point which you deserve.

prasanth (February 06, 2008 at 08:57 PM):

i just realised, that 1 point of mine has gone under the name of “prasanthnori”
could you add it to my “prasanth” set of points?

shenoyvarun86 (February 23, 2008 at 08:09 PM):

This is regarding the Beatles song,agreed NASA beamed it on feb 4th,but the beep also co-incides with the phrase Jai Gurudeva Om,which was a sorta tribute to Maharshi Mahesh Yogi who passed away on feb 5th,so technically speaking(considering the geek nature of the quiz) this is more recent than the beaming of the song isn’t it?????

srikanth (February 25, 2008 at 11:09 AM):

shenoyvarun86: The beeped-out part of the clip is the phrase “Across the universe”, and not the other chant. And besides, Mahesh Yogi’s life/death doesn’t really fall under the “Drama! Intrigue! Geekiness!” banner of this site :-) I’m sorry mate, but I’ll stick to the NASA answer.. No hard feelings, I hope.

shenoyvarun86 (February 29, 2008 at 07:37 PM):

none-wat-so-ever:)besides,MMY’s death is a tragic drama so….

Dibyo (March 09, 2008 at 08:06 PM):

Didn’t get points for Greasemonkey?

devadutta (March 09, 2008 at 11:01 PM):

@dibyo: SRY. I HAS GIVEN U TEH POINT NOW.

shenoyvarun86 (March 10, 2008 at 08:12 PM):

I have not been given a point for Happy meal

srikanth (March 11, 2008 at 09:50 AM):

shenoyvarun86: Benefit of doubt given on reconsideration, but it’s dodgy… I was looking for the “ethernet & SCSI” part of the answer :-)

yaksha (March 16, 2008 at 02:16 AM):

hey i’ve not received a point for sending the answer for the Bayes theorem question. I’d mailed to ur address since i was seeing ‘comments are closed’ thing.
can i get that point?

srikanth (March 16, 2008 at 10:07 AM):

Yaksha: Please post your answer now… I’ll mod you up :)

yaksha (March 17, 2008 at 12:35 AM):

But im unable to make a comment.

srikanth (March 17, 2008 at 09:19 AM):

yaksha: Try now…

yaksha (March 17, 2008 at 10:27 AM):

done

jayanth (March 20, 2008 at 08:01 AM):

hey.. how bout an option where you are allowed to delete your posts.. (in case you initially gave in a wrong answer or typed in something really stupid)

srikanth (April 14, 2008 at 09:18 AM):

jayanth: That option doesn’t seem to be there in the backend (when moderation is enabled)… It’s probably just best to post your next answer in a separate post and ask us to delete the messed up comment :)

varuns88 (April 26, 2008 at 11:16 AM):

hey..something is wrong with my runlength page..says 254th question is Fast! Isnt that the 255th??

devadutta (April 26, 2008 at 11:30 AM):

@varuns88: Dude, thanks a lot for pointing it out.. it is now fixed :)

varuns88 (April 30, 2008 at 08:10 AM):

Dude..same prob again with runlength page man..it has skipped the “It Looks Like a Grapefruit” question..

shenoyvarun86 (May 17, 2008 at 10:06 PM):

my points for iconic gifts???????

akhi (June 22, 2008 at 08:15 AM):

hey, quantumfoammakesmeroamakhi and akhi, we, are the same.. hell that’s me. I’ve been using akhi , umm for quite sometime.. is it possible for you to transfer the points that i have scored, (not like it’s much.. just 5 or 6..still :P) while i was “quantumfoammakesmeroamakhi " to akhi? . talk about lengthy names.. :(

thanks.. :)

devadutta (July 01, 2008 at 12:54 PM):

@akhi: Sure, will be done :)
Btw, did the quantum foam make you roam in sub atomic holiday resorts? :D

insufferablejake (July 08, 2008 at 10:54 AM):

hi, i used to post answers as ‘jake’ then i did like a good boy and registered under ‘insufferablejake’. can you have the points from ‘jake’ xferred to ‘insufferable ..’?

oh and smashing site fellows. First thing I do everyday when I reach work is click on ze rss feed. and keep the window open till i get the answer.

sooper da pasangala!

shenoyvarun86 (July 26, 2008 at 02:29 AM):

Haven got points for artificial intelligence:)

srikanth (July 26, 2008 at 10:58 PM):

shenoyvarun86: You have to post in a thread before we can assign points :) the backend isn’t smartenough to handle guest Qs transparently

Atul Mathew (August 09, 2008 at 04:57 AM):

Double posted by mistake for yesterday’s question. I’ve been given two points instead of one for the question!!

shenoyvarun86 (August 14, 2008 at 08:02 AM):

my comment on Gimp has not appeared:(
are there any complimentary T-Shirts?:)

shenoyvarun86 (August 14, 2008 at 08:09 AM):

I mean are there any complimentary t shirts for poor peepals like me?
:)

devadutta (August 14, 2008 at 01:55 PM):

@shenoyvarun86:
Please re-post the comment and we will give you the point

As far as the t-shirt goes, you can buy one with your hard earned savings :)

Keerthi Kiran M (August 23, 2008 at 07:27 AM):

Dudez,
My points are not getting updated. Can you check why?

Atul Mathew (August 25, 2008 at 10:10 AM):

I don’t think any of our points have been updated for the Guitar Hero question:(

devadutta (August 25, 2008 at 03:39 PM):

@Atul: Thanks for pointing it out! Fixed now.

sidsen (August 30, 2008 at 07:13 AM):

O damn, looks like you guys missed the ‘subtle’ reference to “Los Altos”, “Menlo Park” and “Palo Alto”. There is an urban legend that goes that the applewood pizza was the secred of the energy of the owners of the three garages. but thats just an urban legend :)

srikanth (August 30, 2008 at 09:25 PM):

@sidsen: I did notice that you got the cities right, but the companies weren’t there… I can’t find a reference to the applewood pizza legend anywhere. (My google-fu is possibly weakening) You have a source for that?

sidsen (September 01, 2008 at 10:30 PM):

lol you are unlikely to find any such reference, but i would really like to start it :)

vinayprasad (October 09, 2008 at 10:00 PM):

hey! i am not the vinay, who is in your list..i’ll use vinayprasad from tomo..kindly update the points for google ond today’s as well( i used old usrname :P)

Rahulk (October 19, 2008 at 07:38 PM):

Hi,

I did give the answer as Coming through the Rye … But I dont think it registered it… I think it got lost when I have to give the captcha the second time… At the time of entering the letters in the second I did check my answer and it was displaying my answer … but now it is not… please consider it…

Rahulk (October 19, 2008 at 07:39 PM):

The question I am talking about is the one about James Maxwell and Robert Burns one….

srikanth (October 19, 2008 at 09:00 PM):

@Rahulk - Granted, sir. The escape character ‘' in the answer corroborates your statement :-) . Must be a hiccup of some sort in the input forms. We’ll check it out.

Rahulk (October 20, 2008 at 07:14 AM):

Thanks mate!! Anyways I lost my runlength coz I cant answer the Diffie Hellman’s problem… :-) … Plain stupid of me of not paying attention to the Knapsack Problem….

Rahulk (October 20, 2008 at 07:35 AM):

Also didnt get points for the October 2 question… The Last Supper one…..

Ananth (October 22, 2008 at 09:05 AM):

Quiz master machchas..
Good site. Good questions. Gives me a good short break everyday.

2 things:
I saw once that my answer had double quotation marks and I put in the captcha incorrectly, the page that rendered next didn’t have part of the text i had just typed in. I needed to do it all over again.

The Captcha image doesn’t render on blackberry mobile browser. Browser problem? :-(

devadutta (October 22, 2008 at 10:26 AM):

@RahulK: Fixed. Thanks for letting us know!

devadutta (October 22, 2008 at 10:31 AM):

@Ananth:

The solution to both your problems is to register :)
It is simple, takes hardly a minute. Captchas dont appear if you register and log in!

That does not mean we will ignore the problem :)
We will look into it and fix it.

Thanks for letting us know!

Vaishnavi (October 31, 2008 at 05:17 AM):

My day starts with boiled beans ;) . Though haven’t been able to answer much, I definitely check the answers and improve my knowledge.
Tech questions are too good :)

Keep up the good work folks :)

srikanth (October 31, 2008 at 10:58 PM):

@Vaishnavi: We’re very glad you like the site! Please do keep checking back since the absolute quantities of Drama, Intrigue and Geekiness will only keep increasing :-)

BTW, most of the answers are quite workable. We throw in lots of hints and clues so it’s worth trying to look for them, because they’ll lead you to the solution.

shenoyvarun86 (November 03, 2008 at 09:27 PM):

Silicon alley ge points kottilla

Vijay Shankar (November 10, 2008 at 09:30 AM):

Hey,
Really love the site. Keep up the good work.
I spend most of my day at work trying to crack the question :)

I have two queries.

1. Is it possible to change the display name while retaining the points?
2. I was a bit late in posting my answer for the Gang of Four question, by the time I pressed submit the other comments had become visible. Is it possible to give me points for that?

Vijay

devadutta (November 11, 2008 at 07:44 AM):

@Vijay Shankar: Thanks :)

Coming to your queries,

1. Yes, But it will take a while since we have to manually rig our backend database. If you want to change your name, do it and let us know about your old and new usernames, we will move the points over the weekend.

2. Granted.

Vaishnavi (November 17, 2008 at 08:46 PM):

folks the ls -a title for “In the Beginning was
the Command Line by Neal Stephenson” is awesome. I see the creative fedora/tiara in you on :D

The tech Q’s are too good I must say!

gammafunction (November 22, 2008 at 06:05 AM):

Hey what about my two extra points for sending in a question?

devadutta (November 22, 2008 at 10:22 PM):

@gammafunction: Currently, you get one point for sending in a question :)

We may increase it in the future.

sidsen (December 01, 2008 at 02:34 AM):

hey hey hey, gentleman, surely you were expecting cryptography as the significant BB relevant answer in the poe-gold bug question? given author of novel and illustration of novel, you just have to be seeking a deeper connection than author-novel.

devadutta (December 01, 2008 at 02:11 PM):

@sidsen: True. Since the question was to “identify and connect” and you had just put in the connect, I had not given you the point( backend complains :) )

However, on second thoughts, I felt the connect was sufficient, so, the point has been given.

sidsen (December 01, 2008 at 10:34 PM):

grazie

mach101 (January 06, 2009 at 09:14 AM):

hey,i answered the “yes,minster” question.but my comment did’nt appear.what happened?(i answered it correctly too)

mach101 (January 06, 2009 at 04:54 PM):

have you added the scores for livequiz.if so i have’nt got my 3 points.here’s the badge once again.
+—————————————————-+
BB Live Quiz Badge
uname: mach101
level: 18
skipped: 3
final score: 15
End time: 1231010154
key: c6e19e6987cb963b95b8fd96da02ed47
+—————————————————-+

devadutta (January 06, 2009 at 10:00 PM):

@mach101: Hey! Sorry for the trouble.. we had some issues with approving comments. Its all fixed now.

You will get points for both!

Thanks

mach101 (January 11, 2009 at 06:21 PM):

i demand my live quiz points.jus kidding.i’ll still visit this site for no points.but try adding my points if it’s no problem.

devadutta (January 11, 2009 at 11:27 PM):

@ mach101: :) We have added your points!

Vaishnavi (January 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM):

what happened to my guest Q? sob sob

Ananth (February 06, 2009 at 06:31 PM):

I got the Pauli effect part. I didn’t relate the story of his train journey and his stopover… Can i still get points for the feb 4th answer.

srikanth (February 08, 2009 at 10:54 PM):

@Ananth: Oops! Overlooked that one. Mea culpa, it’s been fixed and you have the point now :-)

p vs np (February 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM):

Uh.. hello folks.
Due to academic obligations , i was unable to post an answer to my question (Mera Bharath Mahan).
Is it possible to receive a point for the same, now?

p vs np (February 24, 2009 at 11:09 PM):

Not awarded a point for ‘Fe’, question 558

alephnull (February 25, 2009 at 02:59 AM):

Rather than the captcha which is a bit of a prima-donna, would you consider using OpenID authentication for spam protection ?

Ananth (February 25, 2009 at 08:06 PM):

Gurus..
Had sent one guest question. Reject andre ‘Rejected’ antha mail kaLisi. Yella Ok, Suspense yake? :)

devadutta (February 26, 2009 at 12:20 AM):

@p vs np: Its your point :) post the answer and we will give it to you!

p vs np (February 26, 2009 at 03:16 AM):

It’s been there for a while now, the answer :O

srikanth (February 28, 2009 at 11:33 PM):

@ananth: We don’t really reject anything… We save them for a rainy day. You’ll see your question some time.

srikanth (February 28, 2009 at 11:36 PM):

@p vs np: You’ve been pointed for both. Yenjoy.

akhi (March 02, 2009 at 04:35 AM):

:( can you transfer my scores scored under ‘Akhila’ to ‘akhi’? thought I could just change the display name :(

p vs np (March 04, 2009 at 12:05 AM):

Uh, is Boiledbeans running a day late?

The questions meant for a particular date ’n’ is being put up on the ’n+1’th day of that month.

devadutta (March 04, 2009 at 01:47 AM):

@p vs np: Very good observation. Yes, we are running a question behind because of the one I disqualified. We will be posting a make up question sometime.

How did you find it out?

devadutta (March 04, 2009 at 01:51 AM):

@akhi: Can you please post answers with ‘akhi’ as username under each question you have posted answer as “Akhila”?

If it is too hard, let me know, I can rig your username to akhi with the magic of SQL :)

p vs np (March 04, 2009 at 11:45 PM):

Nothing ‘Gaussy’ about the observation made :D

Just that the date on which the latest question is posted is a day behind the current date (Indian time).

But the question you disqualified hasn’t exactly been removed, and still shows the date you put it on. Nevertheless, the run lengths seem to be intact.

So, i guess, some minor things need to be straightened out.

akhi (March 08, 2009 at 02:26 AM):

If SQLing helps.. then do it :D hehe yes I’ve re answered :)

devadutta (March 08, 2009 at 10:41 PM):

@akhi: I saw you re-comment only for one. If that’s all, then there is no need to swing my SQL wand. Right?

or are there more?

akhi (March 09, 2009 at 07:55 PM):

I answered 2 :(
I’ll see if I have answered any more ,because it says ‘akhila’ has scored 3 :)

akhi (March 09, 2009 at 07:58 PM):

I have answered that VK test thing and heisenberg questions, couldn’t find the third one :P

devadutta (March 12, 2009 at 11:03 PM):

@akhi: The third one was “The FSF award” question :)

Fixed. Let me know if I have double marked you on any question, because that will crack your runlength :)

p vs np (March 18, 2009 at 11:22 AM):

There seems to be some discrepancy between the number of answers given right as shown on the pie chart and as shown in the Hall of Fame page in most of the user-names. Please look into it.

p vs np (March 18, 2009 at 11:24 AM):

It seems the pie charts haven’t been updated since a while now..

sidsen (March 19, 2009 at 08:50 PM):

for some strange reasonn my answer to frau mond hasn’t posted i got the its being moderated response but today i don’t see the answer. could you just check if my answer to yesterday’s has posted? they would have been roughly around the same time yesterday afternoon

devadutta (March 19, 2009 at 10:24 PM):

@p vs np: The pie chart shows the number of posts where the user has had a correct answer. The hall of fame shows the actual score of the user.

The “discrepancy” happens because we have had some posts where we have multiple questions or multiple points for a single question.

devadutta (March 19, 2009 at 10:25 PM):

@sidsen: Go ahead and post it again, you shall get the point.

Sometimes, the tubes get clogged and although you see the “Awaiting moderation” thingy, the comment gets lost.

p vs np (March 19, 2009 at 10:51 PM):

Oh.. Okay.. Neat. :)

p vs np (March 22, 2009 at 09:25 AM):

Uh, mods, is there a way to access questions which appeared on BB, before July 2008?

It’s fun going through the older posts on a lazy-Sunday :)

As of now, i access some of these questions by going through your/some of the old-timers’ run-lengths, which is quite a tedious process, as navigation from one page to another isn’t convenient..

Sharada (April 02, 2009 at 02:45 AM):

It might be cheesy, but I love the raining mad-scientists! :D I love this site!

Atul Mathew (April 03, 2009 at 12:34 AM):

Guys, I didn’t get points for the ‘Towel Day’ question :(

Ananth (April 22, 2009 at 09:47 AM):

I have a question on my run length stats. I have answered all the questions from Apr 15 (Q 613, Tuz) to Apr 20 (Q 617, Intel Floating point error). But my run length stats show a gap between 613 and 617. Bug? Delayed stats updates?.
I didn’t answer the Watchmen/Mars crater question completely. So, even if I ignore 1 answer, stats should still show 2 correct answers between 613 and 617.

shenoyvarun86 (April 27, 2009 at 05:22 AM):

My answer wrong for Flush Twice?

devadutta (May 03, 2009 at 10:44 PM):

@Ananth: I think the stats are fine now. Do let us know if you still see problems.

devadutta (May 03, 2009 at 10:45 PM):

@Atul: Sorry for the delay. It is fixed now.

Ajay Parasuram (May 04, 2009 at 09:52 AM):

Not been given points for this:
http://www.boiledbeans.net/2009/04/23/flush-twice/#more-3502

Rithwik K (May 09, 2009 at 10:30 AM):

Hai Friends,

It will be great if you visit http://quizshooter.wordpress.com/

krudebox (June 14, 2009 at 08:45 PM):

I haven’t recieved points for this..
http://www.boiledbeans.net/2009/06/11/documented-geekiness/

Also, I’m not able to log in.. It appears that I am logged in the Wordpress profile page, but when I return back to the BB homepage, i’m not logged in anymore. (Asking me to enter the captchas for posting)

And one last thing.. Why is it that some questions have the Answer link posted by you mods and some don’t?
I’m asking because some questions have conflicting answers and its not really clear what the correct answer is? I’m referring to the http://www.boiledbeans.net/2009/06/07/omg-whats-this/ post.
There’s one guy there suggesting that its not the princes of Serendip in the pic. Clarifications please.
P.S. Sorry about the long whiny post. :-)

devadutta (June 17, 2009 at 11:25 PM):

@krudebox: Thanks for your post.
If you don’t see an answer link on a post, it means that we have not moderated the question and no one has been given points for that question. Sometimes, we get plain lazy and don’t mod :)

We will be modding all pending questions soon, so your points will appear.

About your logging in problem, after login, please do not hit your browser’s back button. Instead, hit the visit site link on the top of your profile page.

Thanks

Rogi (June 23, 2009 at 11:43 PM):

Thought you might like to know that Websense is filtering your site as of yesterday for “Sex”.
So, either there’s another side to the site that ai’m not aware of or somebody’s screen name is a dirty word.

Gurupad (July 19, 2009 at 08:27 AM):

i changed my display name from gudanggurum to gurupad. can all my points be transferred to either on of the display names? or should i switch back to my old display name?

rahul (July 28, 2009 at 04:14 AM):

guyz u should post few quiz on technology alone.it will help alot for tcs it wiz

srikanth (July 29, 2009 at 08:43 AM):

@Rogi: Thanks a bunch, mate. We saw your comment a long time ago and we’re trying to contact websense. A couple of others have reported it as well, so we’ll try to get ourselves unlisted.

Sadly, this site has no seedy side to it. The pr0n is not here :-(

srikanth (July 29, 2009 at 08:55 AM):

@Gurupad: Done. You’re henceforth called Gurupad.

All your points and answers are transferred. Note that the posts may still credit “gudanggurum”, but the points are with “Gurupad”

Vardhan Shenoy (September 07, 2009 at 05:15 AM):

Hey.. vardhans94 and Vardhan Shenoy are the same.Plz shift the points to Vardhan Shenoy

AmK (September 11, 2009 at 08:29 AM):

Hi,

My run-length seems to be stopped at 22, even though I’ve got 4 more after that. It seems to be taking 756 twice and restarting the length again:

http://boiledbeans.net/sl.php?u_name_=AmK

Rithwik K (October 08, 2009 at 04:09 AM):

Hey Rithwik K and Rithwik are the same.so pls shift the points to Rithwik K (Rank - 57 )

Mod edit: Done! Check out your new rank!

Godzilla101 (October 29, 2011 at 04:33 AM):

Hey you people are taking a lot of time.Update asap.

Rogi (May 11, 2012 at 03:48 PM):

From some of the recent replies with links, it looks like the bots are attacking.
Are they bypassing captcha, somehow?