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Friday, April 8, 2011

quack();

—srikanth @ 23:59

I’m probably going to get roasted for this question, but here goes.

(1) (most likey) said something about (2) that created a “test”. This test is used as the definition of a programming concept. Name the concept.

Cracked by: Ananth, jowens, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Abhilash Bhandari, dineshk, aditthya, Rogi, Manish Achuth, shrey, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, udupendra, krudebox, raklodramA, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, jins and Siddarth Pai

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Duck Typing. Look it up.


I'll keep the keyboard. Thanks.

—devadutta @ 23:59

You knew this question was coming.. didn’t you :)

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, Aravind, emberryteeste, Manish Achuth, aditthya, Anjul, shrik, Logik, udupendra, Antariksh Bothale, Narayana, vinayaknp, Ananth, grey_matters, Dibyo, shrey, jowens, dineshk, Jayaprakash B R, SV, Shwetha Maiya, krudebox, Thejas V R and raklodramA

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“Google’s April fool’s prank of GMail Motion brought to life using Microsoft Kinect” – Krudebox


Wednesday, April 6, 2011

It sucks!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Yay! Guest question time! This one is from %gqh% udupendra. Thanksu saar.

After what device is this microbe (the circular one at the center of the picture) named?

Update: Hint: The device it is named after sucks. Literally.

Update: Hint: Think about devices that suck and look like the microbe in center.

Cracked by: udupendra, Raghuvansh, Rogi, jowens and dineshk

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Roomba. This is the microbe Roombia truncata, named after the


Tuesday, April 5, 2011

This is a public service announcement...

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this list?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Ananth, SV, Anjul, Rogi, Amarendra, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, aditthya, shrik, kiran, raklodramA, Dibyo, varuns88, rohanquizzer, udupendra, jowens, Antariksh Bothale, Thejas V R and Shwetha Maiya

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The Mozilla foundation recently released their list of addons that cause Mozilla browsers to run extremely slow, a “first” for a company to publish a wall-of-shame of browser plugins!


Monday, April 4, 2011

Do they hate dolphins?

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is happening here?

Thats the Thames river, btw.

Cracked by: Ananth, jowens, Rogi, dineshk, krudebox, rohanquizzer, shrik, aditthya, Siddarth Pai, udupendra, Raghuvansh, jins, kiran, raklodramA, Dibyo and Aravind

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Google Earth rendering a Narwhal in front of Canonical’s office in London. Canonical of course makes Ubuntu and the next release is termed Natty Narwhal.


Sunday, April 3, 2011

Steady

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

This question is inspired by a comment left by one of our users. We will give that person a %gqh% trophy after this question closes :P

Very Happy ಯುಗಾದಿ (Ugadi) to all our Kannada/Telugu speaking readers.

Cracked by: dineshk, Mikey, jowens, KK, Rogi, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Raghuvansh, Muthu sundaresan, raklodramA, abinash sharma, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, Siddarth Pai, S M MUNEER ALI, Ananth, aditthya, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, udupendra, jins, Sanador and kiran

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Spirograph


Saturday, April 2, 2011

Your choice

—srikanth @ 23:59

The man on the right has given his name to a popular topic of discussion in mathematics. Identify.

Cracked by: shrik, shrey, dineshk, Rogi, Dibyo, jowens, Manish Achuth, sandman, Debasish, krudebox, arman, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, udupendra, Siddarth Pai, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, abinash sharma, aditthya, Shwetha Maiya, Aravind, Anjul and Atul Mathew

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Monty Hall, of Monty Hall problem fame :)


Friday, April 1, 2011

just this One Time

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify.

Sorry for the late post folks. Will be posting another one shortly and then we’re back on schedule :)

Cracked by: shrik, jowens, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Debasish, krudebox, aditthya, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla and Raghuvansh

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Bieber-Beta, Wolfram Alpha did this a couple of days ago. Sorry.


Friday, April 1, 2011

How do you like the new design?

—devadutta @ 01:49

At Boiledbeans, we believe that “new age” web-designs have insulted their rich heritage by ignoring the path they have taken to reach the jing-bang era of Web 2.0 or 3.0 whatever. The web is nothing without animated gifs, bright backgrounds and Comic Sans. So, we have today decided to go back to our web-design roots by launching this new design.

Hit Ctrl + F5. Multiple times.

You like it or not, we are keeping it!

Damn these “new-age” browsers, they stopped supporting the blink tag! Traitors!

Thanks

Edit: Happy fools day, folks.


Thursday, March 31, 2011

All you have to do is keep talking

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify and connect

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Dibyo, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, jowens, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, KK, Nakul, Thejas V R, shrik, Logik, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya and krudebox

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Nim Chimpsky, named as a pun on Noam Chomsky, was a chimp raised in a laboratory environment. Scientists were attempting to disprove Chomsky’s theory that humans were “wired” for language by trying to teach Nim how to speak.