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by rpackard 12y ago
I am really interested in how this is measured. I have found this info on free sources so far "The FIT Treadmill Score, calculated as [percentage of maximum predicted heart rate + 12(metabolic equivalents of task) – 4(age) + 43 if fem
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Ask HN: what business steps are necessary for a bootstrapped SAAS?
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by rpackard 14y ago
http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-r Codeschool recently launched a free tutorial class for R thats interactive. They do a great job with intro level learning.
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by rpackard 14y ago
This may actually be yet another way they are protecting users privacy. For anyone that hasn't read the news: mega is securing users uploaded files from Mega itself by forcing users to encrypt the uploads. This encryption prevents mega fro
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by rpackard 14y ago
Adding client side validations offloads some work from your servers. It could reduce the number of total requests that hit your server and overall increase your speed. This may be premature optimization for a lot of cases but for form heav
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by rpackard 14y ago
Started in highschool with visual basic and created a aol instant messenger punting program. No classes in HS. In college was chem engineer and learned matlab and fortran for scientific computing and data analysis. Linux admin and bash sc
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by rpackard 14y ago
I worked R & D at a big consumer packaged goods company and ran into a lot of these 'excel messes' especially dealing with raw materials specifications. Here are my suggestions: The 'R' programming language is pretty useful for statist
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by rpackard 14y ago
I think that you are mostly correct. In that, you do not want to lead your customers on too much and with simply testing one thing you will not be sure if the idea as a whole is bad. But there is a time and a place to ask a customer to de