jbondeson

Full grain brewing is significantly more expensive (unless you do the "Brew in a Bag" style) simple setups easily put you into the $400+ range. Purpose-built full grain brewing systems setup with pumps, three burners and kettles will set you back $2500-5000 depending upon how nice of a setup you get and the volume (15 gallons to 40 gallons), and that doesn't even include the fermentation equipment which for heated and cooled conicals can be $2000+.

Homebrewing has a very active higher end market which is only getting more active as it becomes easier for individuals to move from hobbyist to professional pico/nano/micro-brewer.

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 think you are. Otherwise you'll end up in this situation where you're benchmarking a compiler...

Next time I'm in the MN I'll have to swing by.

Hopefully they go ahead and release more details on the other brews and make it fully open source.

When you start to see large suppliers get into the market then you'll start to see a decrease in immediate conversions.

Some commercial OCR engines such as Nuance Capture SDK have built in functionality for this.

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 visions of implementing it, Schwaber's was Scrum, Beck's was XP.

Saying that a particular methodology isn't a silver bullet therefore it's Agile's fault is a bit like saying science is dead when we disprove a theory.

However if it's safety, it's better to know up front than to think you're anonymous.

Half of me thinks it's better everyone knows they were doxed all at once.

The beauty of open source is that if the maintainers of libjpeg-turbo want to incorporate it, they can, and I'm sure the Mozilla devs would be more than happy to help.

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 their domain and found the solution that worked for them. If I had gotten to the point that I wanted to do a domain-specific image segmentation heuristic I would certainly build it up from a series of filters and image morphology steps. If the performance (both accuracy and speed) was satisfactory, I don't know why you would invest in optimization at that point. Also, from experience I know that implementing algorithms from papers is a slow and many times painful process as the original authors generally don't publish reference code, and if they do it's probably in Matlab. And if they don't have someone adept at image processing their potential for success would likely be low.

Also, OpenCV includes functions for image segmentation. If they couldn't use that, it would have been nice for the article to at least touch on why.

I agree that a quick "Here's what we tried that's readily available" would have been good for others to learn from, because for many the general solutions would be sufficient.

The number for a Prius-hybrid you'd really care to look at would be the city driving numbers as that's where you get all the advantages of regenerative breaking. Running a Prius at 100+ km/h it just turns back into a standard petrol fueled vehicle carrying drained batteries.

Have you started playing with strategies to proactively identify potential clashes?

I think one of the big challenges will be establishing the best practices for plug-ins to avoid user-experience-ruining clashes.

[1] - I help maintain the smooth-scrolling minor-mode and diagnosing and solving some of the interactions with evil-mode and macros has been... fun. Thankfully the Emacs community is populated by people who provide excellent bug reports!

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 Light Table.' I understand that the dynamic nature of clojure makes this possible, but I'm reminded of all the issues monkey-patching causes. I would hate to spend hours diagnosing plug-in interactions.

So I ask again why you would want to have someone on staff that you would think twice about giving access to beer in the office?

The DSM doesn't even list psychopathy as a diagnosis any more, only antisocial personality disorder which requires a history of, and we might as well just quote the DSM "... a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others..." So yes, a diagnosis of ASPD does generally indicate someone who could be considered dangerous to others.

Now if we're talking about someone with psychopathic traits that scores high on a Hare, then no it does not necessarily indicate dangerous behavior. However, a Hare is still important when dealing with criminals as you do not want to give a psychopath treatment as it simply makes them better criminals.

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 up to speed will take investing a not insignificant amount of time. So when I see a large succession of sub-year stints I'm going to ask. I've hired many people who were contractors in the past, or who had issues with past employers, but I'm certainly going to want to know what the issues were so I can be sure they aren't going to have them at our company.

Both employer and employee want to minimize the risk of a quick exit as the hiring/job-seeking cycle is financially and emotionally expensive.

When you combine this with Trade Secret law you protect yourself from one of your employees taking your technology, starting a new company and patenting it (potentially coming in under the 1 year mark).

First-to-File only comes into play when multiple entities file for overlapping patents, it simply finds in favor of the first to file for a provisional patent. This avoids a mess of trying to determined who came up with the idea first, which was always a contest of who documented first.

[1] You could still be in violation and not know it as provisional patents are non publicly disclosed for 18 months, so in reality there is technically a 2.5 year window where you can't be absolutely sure someone else has filed.

It wouldn't necessarily prevent a patent from being obtained, but it would protect SpaceX from being found in violation. I know this from first hand experience.

Quick someone write a "Stop Using Mobile-Hostile Stylesheets" article.

Those with degrees I need to ferret out if they actually like to program or if they just are in it "for the job." I tend to find that those that have come to programming via another route are more likely to actually enjoy it.

Those without degrees I need to spend more time ferreting out the "plays well with others" skills. I tend to find that those without a college degree tend to have less experience attempting to solve tough intellectual problems as a member of a group -- this is usually alleviated by more professional experience. One other quirk that seems to come up more often[1] is the "Smartest Person in the Room" syndrome, the constant need to prove one's superior intelligence. If you get more than one of these people on your team it tends to turn every discussion or meeting into an unproductive fireworks display of one-upmanship.

My perfect hire is the self-learner who loves to program, has a mastery of the fundamentals of computer science, can effectively communicate complex topics, and has enough confidence in their abilities to stow the ego.

Then again I'm also looking for some beach front property here in Colorado...

[1] - I also see this quite a bit with people who are _really_ proud of where they went to school. This is then usually combined with them somehow working the name of their alma mater into the conversation at least a dozen times during an hour interview.

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 around on a photo sharing company.

Microsoft just threw a billion so it could acquire some more patent ammunition.

Everyday billions and billions of dollars are thrown around to buy all sorts of things, who gets to decide what spending is "right" and what's "wrong?"

You were prescribed anti-depressants by a medical doctor (most likely without even the most rudimentary training in mental health), and you blame psychiatrists? How does that make any sense?

You may as well blame mechanics for the bad advice you got on fixing your car from the guy at the bicycle shop.

There are a huge number of languages out there and it takes a large investment to become highly proficient in any one of those. Once you make that choice and sink all that time into becoming great with it you start to fall prey to the trap of post-purchase rationalization by seeking out confirmation of your decisions. Once you have placated your doubts, you rationalize the increased investment to become even better (that's commitment bias, also known as irrational escalation). And then you start the cycle all over again.

The exact same phenomenon occurs in all investment scenarios be it phones (android v. iphone), video games (xbox v. playstation), or programming languages.

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 California school is hardly a surprise.

This is not a comparison of equals, but a comparison of Luxury vs. Standard. That's no longer about preferences, that's about one being better.