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The quest for every beard type
- kadavy 16y agoGrow a beard. It will change your life.
- jkaufman 16y agoMy friends and I did a "Beard-tober" a year ago -- no shaving for the entire month of October. It didn't change my life - I just looked like a guy with a light colored and somewhat patchy beard.
- kirubakaran 16y agoOpen source beard?
- NIL8 16y agoTry growing one for a minimum of six months. It takes dedication and courage. At the very least, it's a great social experiment. You'll encounter prejudice, admiration, and endless hours of fun like the guy in the link!
- sophacles 16y agoAlso noteworthy: the type of girls I meet when bearded are of a very different type than the type I meet when not bearded. (not better or worse, just a whole different experience) Particularly when I keep my beard tuned to "vaguely edgy". Of course you'll have to learn to put up with lots of looks of disapproval, and old ladies holding their purses tighter around you, but that is worth it in its own right too.
- aerique 16y agoI can grow a solid beard but the itching of it drives me nuts after two or three weeks. Probably related to other skin problems :-(
- rue 16y agoThis man can really grow a beard, well done! Most men only have one or two styles they could pull off and unfortunately it takes a while to find the right one…I suspect that's a big reason why many won't even try. A light beard isn't usually too great, either, but you can always dye it and use an eyebrow pen to retouch inbetween treatments.
- biot 16y agoI suspect the trick is to grow a big unruly beard and then plan how you're going to cut it. I wouldn't be surprised if you could get almost a dozen styles out of one beard simply by trimming a little, taking a picture, then trimming a little more until you get to the next style, and so on until the last picture might be the soul patch. With enough planning (and the right genetics) you could do all of his styles in 2011.
- bdr 16y agoThere are a couple interesting math problems in there.
- EGreg 16y agoThere is also a good sitcom skit. See "how I met your mother". Man, I don't know what episode. I think the one where he breaks up with robin, grows a breakup beard and says, "You're suited up, I'm bearded down..." see all the styles they got out of just one shaving session! :)
- ZoFreX 16y agoIt seems like there are a number of states (beards), with transitions only being possible between some of those states. Map that all out and it's a graph theory problem - how many can you visit in one go? We can transform it into a more classic problem (visit every single node) by adding more edges with weights, where the weight is how long it would take to grow enough beard to make an otherwise invalid transition.
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- nhebb 16y agoI'd love to grow all these beards, but unfortunately I have the facial-hair-growing capability of Ethan Hawke (except I had enough sense to give it up when it didn't pan out).
- CWIZO 16y agoYeah ... it saddens me that the only thing I could muster is the "The Pencil", and even that would look funny on me. Oh well, at 24 I guess it's time I accept that I won't be able to grow a beard :)
- wyclif 16y agoCurious: how old is this? I hate it when there's no date on blog posts.
- blhack 16y agoThere is a date under every post, and he updates it every time he gets a new beard.
- TamDenholm 16y agoSadly i'm one of these guys: http://i.imgur.com/0xdmt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0xdmt.jpg
- rufugee 16y agoAh yes...I've had this cycle going consistently for years. I'm currently in the perseverance phase...again...
- shrikant 16y agoOrdered by trustworthiness: http://i.imgur.com/PHmF5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PHmF5.jpg
- bravura 16y agoI've always said that with great power comes great responsibility. Most people, if they were capable of growing these amazing moustaches, they would already be dictator of a small nation. Not Jonathan E. Dyer. No, this man uses his beard growing skills for the benefit of science and humanity at large.
- Groxx 16y agoI do believe this qualifies for "epic". Amazing spread. And awesome job on the "Federation Standard", I got a huge Star Trek vibe immediately.
- smogzer 16y agoSmogzer's method for "How to see yourself in every beard type" : 1) Grow a huge beard. 2) Put yourself in a comfortable and repeatable pose, i.e. fixate a point in space, shoulders back, make sure you are able to repeat the position you are in. 3) pick 1-5 camera poses around you. 4) with your huge beard take pictures from every camera position in various lighting settings, or have a friend do it. 5) shave, standing in place if it has to. 6) take pictures again. 7) with photoshop or gimp overlay the beard picture on top of the beardless one and delete and clone parts of your beard ! 8) since this is hacker news, the post would not be complete if you do not: 8.1) create a startup from it ;)
- smogzer 16y agoAlso check the article "image based shaving" for an algorithm for beard removal: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/imageshaving/ http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/imageshaving/
- itg 16y agoDon't forget this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=081dHOYY6IE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=081dHOYY6IE