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Group dining restaurants in San Francisco

I recently tweeted "What's a good restaurant in SF where 12 people can have dinner & conversation?"

I got a lot great responses. Here they are (with editorial from me where I have experience):

Beretta (downstairs room). This was the most suggested location. Upstairs is awesome but too noisy, but downstairs would be great.

Heirloom Cafe (this used to be Cafe Gratitude, vegan raw restaurant. No longer.)

Wayfare Tavern (they have some great private rooms)

Andalu

Velvet Cantina

Limon

La Traviata

Fang

Uva Enoteca

E&O Trading Company

Baby Blues

Quince (spendy)

Benihana

AQ

Spruce

Ozumo (I love the "sake room" here but not the room where you have to take your shoes off)

Bar Agricole

Catch

Original Joe's

Applebees (couldn't tell if that was a joke but I'd totally do that)

SFO airport, Penthouse Club, or Outback (you know you you are, jackwad)

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Fiber optic cables: How they work

Bet you learn something. Even if you already knew how fiber optics work, you'll learn how to explain things clearly - like this guy.

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Noticed this bee trying to get into my apartment. iPhone 4, no filter, Olloclip macro lens.

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If there are 23 people in a room, there's a 50% chance two of them have the same birthday.

This is the Birthday Problem

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Mavis Beacon is a fictional character created for the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software.

She's not real, so says this Wikipedia article.

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Calculate UPC check digit in ColdFusion

I looked for a function to generate a UPC check-digit using ColdFusion/Railo. Couldn't find anything, so I wrote one. Give it 11 digits and it'll tell you the 12th. Hopefully someone finds this useful.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SCRIPT (this use to be an embedded Github Gist, but apparently Tumbler doesn’t allow embedding anymore...)

About UPC codes: A typical UPC code is 12 digits. The first 11 digits (perhaps supplied to you by gs1) can be anything. The 12th digit ("check digit") must be calculated. The purpose of this last digit is to detect typos in the preceding number. An example from my tissue box is below. Information about the algorithm is here.

Note: Always treat UPCs and check-digits as strings, not numbers. That way any leading zeros will be preserved. 

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When making hiring decisions, ask yourself if the candidate could successfully run your company. Because they will be.

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A makes criticism P.

A is also guilty of P.

Therefore, P is dismissed.

This is the logical fallacy known as tu quoque