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btbonval "@nshapiro glad to hear it has been considered! I studied some psychology in college, I learned that if there's anyone who knows how to craft a surv..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
btbonval "If this is largely done through self reporting and the information is coming from a group that expects such toxins to be present, I have two very s..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
btbonval "@ajawitz I'm not sure if you have seen the (lengthy) discussion on Markdown in various places, but I can link to at least one part of the longer co..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
btbonval "Time and humidity can be controlled for. Take 4 to 8 tubes. Do whatever it is you do before putting them in the fridge, but put them in: fridge no..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
btbonval "For plain text only, we might want to look into something like what TwitLonger does. http://www.twitlonger.com/ Twitter begins as just text with 1..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
btbonval "I know I'm going to come off cold and inhuman, but we should not ignore mathematics and known trends. Most natural works, and human works, exist i..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
btbonval "@nshapiro Calibration is calibration, be it analog or digital. Not sure why that distinction is made, but the rest of the statements are more heart..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
btbonval "Any positive or negative controls you plan to test against just to make sure the device works? I know when I was using VOC detectors a long time a..." | Read more » almost 9 years ago
btbonval "These instructions are really great, except I feel like there's a gap between the laser attenuator and the completed assembly. "Place in front of ..." | Read more » almost 9 years ago
btbonval "Secondary thought: Is the gradient blue and black, or white and gold? lulz " | Read more » almost 9 years ago
btbonval "What about color and white balance? Your example image shows an awfully strong red/yellow back light which will change hue of the colorimeter. It..." | Read more » almost 9 years ago
btbonval "@amysoyka bitbucket can use git or mercurial, which are both options I noted in a previous comment. GitHub is not the same as git. I actually have ..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "Oh here's a crazy idea. You could point at other contributor.json files by reference using a universal identifier, aka UUID. https://en.wikipedia.o..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "Timestamping would probably be better than versioning because version numbers don't always get used in proper ways. Think of forking a feature bran..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "That covers the first problem but not the second. So I think you'd need to do one of two things to really preserve the historical contributors: ..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "I think linking to other files would be alright. In that sense, you are emulating a graph by issuing pointers as opposed to trying to copy-by-value..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "I like that its JSON and that there isn't a hard coded standard. It seems more like a guideline or a best practice, but of course deviation is acce..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "I bet that haze acts like a nice warm blanket to keep the heat from all those oil burning furnaces down in the city! All clouds have silver lining..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "I agree that looking over repeats will be difficult. I think it is worth it to draw any conclusions. As much as I like your experiment, the lack o..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "Good point on the potential for software to warp the x-axis. "Repeating the capture several times and trying to plot the results together could we..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "This is a really great experiment. It looks like the distortion is a squeezed distortion, where the x-axis is shrunk around a point. That seems mo..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "Hrm, I'm not sure if there is a "best" for community engagement as a general subject. I think improvization might be key to the question of engage..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "Justin, this is a great step you've taken. From my own experience with companies that pay me for open source software, there tends to be this disc..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
btbonval "That is a good question. There are many factors that can change how the light interacts with the cmos. No optical system can assure it without som..." | Read more » over 9 years ago