2. Connect again
3. Identify the person (guru for many, known for his rants) and the language X, that led to a popular saying on the Internet that he doesn't know X
X is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the X programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
4. Identify (easy):
5. Identify this, which in the world of computer software takes a long long time to install and yet is the fastest in its field:
6. Identify, (video game programmer) of one of the most popular game of all times.
7. Connect again:
8. Which famous open source project began as a program to implement a client and server to stream videos across a campus network at the Ecole Centrale Paris?
9.
Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.
What is being talked about here (identify the software).
10. Connect:
11. Identify
X was already studying at Stanford University, when he volunteered as a guide for potential first year students. His duty was to show new recruits to the campus, in which Y was also there. When they first met, they clashed incessantly on almost everything, yet they went on to form a powerful company we worship. Identify X and Y.
12. Whose mascot?
13. Connect
X was already studying at Stanford University, when he volunteered as a guide for potential first year students. His duty was to show new recruits to the campus, in which Y was also there. When they first met, they clashed incessantly on almost everything, yet they went on to form a powerful company we worship. Identify X and Y.
12. Whose mascot?
13. Connect
14. Identify the logo:
4 comments:
1. Is that the picture from the famous Monty Python series..? and the next pic is indeed the logo for the Python language.
So the connect must be Python...
2. the second pic is tht of HAL (from the 2001:A space odyssey fame..)So is the connect HAL?
3. Richard Stallman?
4. James Gosling (and is that the Fermat's Last Theorem on his T-shirt?)
6. Is that John Carmack (Doom, Quake etc...)
7. The first pic is Opera...can't figure out the connect...
8. VLC?
9. Microsoft Windows? (stupid guess...)
11. X = Larry Page
Y = Sergei Brin
Google....
12. Don't seem to remember...but is this the mascot of an emulator software?
Great quiz!!! looking forward for the answers...
I will wait for sometime before posting the answers.
1. python and movie "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
2.
3.
4. James gosling
5.
6. John Carmack
7. Opera and CSS image
8. CartoReso
9. Mozilla Firefox
11. x=Sergery Brin and y=larry Page
12. Konqi, mascot of the KDE project
13. Bit torrent and bram cohen founder of bit torrent company
Well, here are the answers:
1. As pointed out by Vatsan, the connect is Python. The language was named after 'Monthy Python's Flying Circus'
2. Two artificially intelligent computers serving the human race on space missions.
GERTY : From the movie Moon
HAL 9000: From 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Linus Torvalds.
When asked why he didn't use C++ for his 'git' version control system, Linus had this to say.
The language X is C++.
The C++ community responded by saying that Linus doesn't know C++ and so is not fit to comment.
4. James Gosling, inventor of the Java PL.
5. Gentoo Linux
The entire distro is compiled from source, even the display manager. It takes around 2 days to compile a minimalistic system running a GUI, however it fast since it specifically optimized for your computer.
6. John Carmack, co founder id Software. Programmer of games such as Quake, Doom etc.
7. The first pic is the Opera Logo.
The second pic is a source code example of CSS.
The proposal for CSS was given by Håkon Wium Lie, who is now the CTO of Opera.
I know this is not much of a robust question, but Opera and CSS still serves as a connect.
8. VLC indeed.
9. Mozilla Firefox.
Easter egg. Type in Firefox:
about:mozilla
... to bring this up.
10. Rendering Engine for Browsers.
First: WebKit - used by Safari and Google Chrome
Second: Gecko - Firefox
Third: Presto - Opera
11. Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
12. Konqi, mascot for KDE - The K Desktop Environment
13. Bram Cohen, the guy behind the BitTorrent protocol. The green logo is the logo of BitTorrent Inc.
14. The GNU Compiler Collection, gcc.
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