vnagpal's comments

On: I would love to know how did they make it (interactive infographic)

[vnagpal]

I don't know much but I didn't see any flash, would you point where exactly.

[apeacox → vnagpal]

build.js:4074

or at least, they've used Adobe Flash CS6 and then exported to JS/sprites/etc in some way. I can't be more specific because I don't use those tools for web development ;)

On: Agar.io

[vnagpal]

same here.

On: Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends

[vnagpal]

i am getting "WhatsApp Web only works in Google Chrome." and i'm using latest chromium :/

[piyush_soni → vnagpal]

Ha ha ... That's interesting :).

On: Welcome, cryptanalyst

[vnagpal]

This isn't for google, it's some marketing thing for upcoming movie "The Imitation Game" (based on Alan Turing).

[mikecb → vnagpal]

You sure? It redirects into the foobar game, which seems more like fizz buzz type challenges.

[andrewryno → vnagpal]

The footer has links to Google. Unless Google is now doing movie marketing.

This is also part of another game that was submitted a couple weeks ago which was a recruiting game for GOogle.

[vnagpal → andrewryno]

I got to that site through this movie trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sX... if you look at the paper at 3 second mark you can see the address "146.148.62.204". But now i wonder if its somehow connected with google

[rtkwe → vnagpal]

Haha right as Turing says "Are you paying attention too." Pretty clever. I don't think this is purely a movie advert though. The Imitation Game relation explains how they expected people to get the non number base/regex clue.

[kripke → vnagpal]

It is also on the blackboard at the end (around 0:57), and possibly on some other places. Google "sponsoring" them in exchange of putting an IP address in their trailer is something I would absolutely see them do.

[gcmartinelli → kripke]

also at blackboard at 0:10 and 0:26, and at a paper sheet at 0:12

[magnusg7 → vnagpal]

Wow! You clearly pay attention... I wonder if I would have noticed this. Thanks for sharing!

Somehow, google must have to do with this, either google paying weinstein for displaying this or weinstein paying google for making this a social media booster.

[vnagpal → magnusg7]

Well Benedict asked to pay close attention :D

On: Welcome, cryptanalyst

[vnagpal]

all is trivial but regex, what data to use for those hints ?

[TrainedMonkey → vnagpal]

It does not really matter. Either characters to use would be included in regex itself, such as [j-g] or you could use any.

For example "\D{2}\S{3}" means match 2 non-digit characters followed by 3 nonspace characters. Some things that match "aaaaa", "bbbbb", "ALUSD", "AA123"...

Site I linked really explains things quite well on mouseover. Once you complete first challenge (make sure you open this in chrome, I've had exciting quest of delete elements in firefox until I could save my solution) you can register and come back anytime later.

On: A Cautionary Tale of Learning to Code

[vnagpal]

i am still struggling with this problem, but great article and thanks for sharing.

On: 2048

[vnagpal]

i discovered it while in office ...and now half of my office is addicted to it.

On: Ask HN: recommend a book that explains how computers work down to the silicon

[vnagpal]

thank you for this gem.

On: Plot.ly: Matlab for the Web

[vnagpal]

can anybody please explain how to plot in it using python i tried example

x=[5,7,9,3,1,8,12] y=[3,7,6,1,7,11,8] plot(x,y)

after clicking the button "Run" its not doing anything