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by jbondeson 12y ago
Depends. For extract brewing you can easily do it for $100-150 if you bottle the beer(with your biggest expense being a large 5+ gallon kettle), adding another $100-150 if you keg. Full grain brewing is significantly more expensive (unless
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by jbondeson 12y ago
This is why micro-benchmarking is Russian roulette. When you distill a loop until you're finding the exact bottleneck in the system (pipelining, branch prediction, etc) you need to be very very careful you're measuring what you th
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by jbondeson 12y ago
Completely understand. I think simple percentages for the grain bill would go a long way to showing the character of the beer. Personally I've never understood the desire to clone a commercial brew, but it's certainly fun to riff
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by jbondeson 12y ago
As homebrewer I love the idea, but unfortunately other than the Schottky Pumpkin Ale, it's not very "open source" as they do not list percentages or quantities on any of the grains they use. Even the Schottky doesn't men
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by jbondeson 12y ago
Well technically if you're a bitcoin merchant you can just as easily convert to USD or any other currency that is more stable than the Argentine peso.
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by jbondeson 12y ago
I see only three good reasons for a merchant to hold reserve in bitcoin: 1) pay their employees, 2) pay their suppliers, or 3) good old speculation. When you start to see large suppliers get into the market then you'll start to see a d
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by jbondeson 13y ago
You have to compensate for the 3D deformation present in the captured image. There has been some impressive work in this area recently. Some commercial OCR engines such as Nuance Capture SDK have built in functionality for this.
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by jbondeson 13y ago
Repeat after me: "Scrum is Agile, but Agile is not Scrum" The Agile Manifesto is a simple set of 4 values and 12 principles to aid in building software, that's it. The different signers of the manifesto had different vision
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by jbondeson 13y ago
If the objection is privacy it's not right. However if it's safety, it's better to know up front than to think you're anonymous.
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by jbondeson 13y ago
I'm torn about the article. On one hand this seems like a horrid breach of privacy and a terribly dangerous thing to do. On the other, even if they just said he lives in his family home in California, people were going to find out all
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by jbondeson 13y ago
If their only plans were to add that one feature I'm sure they would have done just that. Clearly they have grander plans than simply integrating existing functionality, and they felt they needed total control of the project to do so.
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by jbondeson 13y ago
but this algorithm is Rube Goldberg-esque I think that's being a bit unkind, it's simply clear that the people are not experienced with computer vision and/or image processing in general. They approached the problem from th
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by jbondeson 13y ago
You do realize that you're comparing a diesel car to a standard petrol-hybrid right? Diesel engines are ~33% more efficient per-liter (and usually that much more expensive). The number for a Prius-hybrid you'd really care to look
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by jbondeson 13y ago
That sounds great, and will definitely help alleviate headaches when the clashes occur. Have you started playing with strategies to proactively identify potential clashes?
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by jbondeson 13y ago
As an avid Emacs user and having debugged unintended side-effects in minor-modes[1] I definitely know that this is possible there. At the same time though I would hope we learn from what works and doesn't work in Emacs and apply it to
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by jbondeson 13y ago
As a backer I'm really happy that it's now open source. As a user I'm a bit concerned by this phrase '"plugin" is a bit of a misnomer - they are capable of fundamentally redefining in or adding anything to Lig
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by jbondeson 13y ago
Yes, we all mess things up, but that remains true with or without alcohol. But the fact of the matter is that there will be alcohol present at some time with company events, be it a summer picnic event, holiday party, or dinners. Not to men
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by jbondeson 13y ago
The better question is: why would you have people on staff who you wouldn't trust to be mature enough to handle the situation?
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by jbondeson 13y ago
The problem here is that people are using a term that has a long and colorful history in a very imprecise manner. Sociopath hasn't been in the literature for years, but people still seem to use it interchangeably to speak of antisocial
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by jbondeson 13y ago
I think it is highly dependent upon the industry and job. I've interviewed and hired dozens of other developers and never met one that knew the first thing about the industry we're in. We have a complex suite of products and to get someone
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by jbondeson 14y ago
Prior Use Right says that if a you have used a technology commercially for more than a year prior to the file date of a patent[1], or public disclosure thereof if your technology is a derivative of the that disclosure, you cannot be held in
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by jbondeson 14y ago
You are incorrect. Trade Secret laws and prior continuous use protect SpaceX very well if someone were to swoop in and patent a technology they use. It wouldn't necessarily prevent a patent from being obtained, but it would protect SpaceX f
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by jbondeson 14y ago
Hilariously, the site is nearly unreadable on my iPhone and two-thirds of the offending sites have larger font sizes on mobile safari. Quick someone write a "Stop Using Mobile-Hostile Stylesheets" article.
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by jbondeson 14y ago
My philosophy on hiring has always been to hire the smartest people who are still capable of working and communicating well with others. Over the years I have found that I need to focus more on different areas during the hiring process depe
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by jbondeson 15y ago
What's the point in singling out sports entertainment? Apple cleared $100bb predominately selling consumer electronics, should everyone who bought an iPad feel bad for not donating that $600 to cancer research? Facebook just threw a billion
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by jbondeson 15y ago
Yes, I missed the qualifier about the psychiatrist. Sadly there are many MDs that will prescribe psychotropics when they have no training in doing so.
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by jbondeson 15y ago
EDIT: Missed the bit about the psychiatrist not asking questions, sounds like an encounter with a bad psychiatrist. You were prescribed anti-depressants by a medical doctor (most likely without even the most rudimentary training in mental
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by jbondeson 15y ago
I highly doubt that this has much to do with laziness and much more to do with a nasty positive feedback cycle of post-purchase rationalization (for most time is the most important thing they can invest) and commitment bias. There are a hug
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by jbondeson 15y ago
Only if SAT scores were the only factor in admissions, and it's not. And as for Berkeley's 50% student body, 1/3 of all Asian-Americans live in California (they make up 13% of the Californian population), so a much-higher population at a Ca
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by jbondeson 15y ago
No it's not. Look, MG didn't use a comparison of a Toyota to a Honda -- brands considered to be on equal footing. He likened the iPhone to a high end brand (Mercedes) and the Nexus to an economy brand (Honda). This is not a comparison of

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