ericfrenkiel

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SAP to buy Qualtrics for $8B(axios.com)
15 points by ericfrenkiel 8y ago|1 comments
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by ericfrenkiel 8y ago
Considering there is existential incentive to lie about being from San Francisco, this survey qualifies as a biased source of information. It should not be held up as proof that whatever is working would work better if only we would please
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by ericfrenkiel 8y ago
Yes, “hard” scifi is a sub-genre that adheres to physics as much as we know it to be true - no faster-than-light travel, for instance. Arthur C. Clarke and his 2001 series as well as Nivens and his Ringworld series would be good examples, w
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by ericfrenkiel 8y ago
To each his own! I found the way the author mapped human evolution into a familiar-but-different life form based on nuclear chemistry just so “far out” that it was a fun read.
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by ericfrenkiel 8y ago
If you read the article and enjoyed the idea of immense mountains being just centimeters tall, I highly recommend a scifi novel called “Dragon’s Egg” by Robert L. Forward. He actually wrote a scientific research paper on neutron stars and t
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by ericfrenkiel 8y ago
Generally it is to ensure their employees are well-rested ahead of the important meeting if it is a very long flight. Add in frequent flyer programs to reward an employee’s airline loyalty, and many business class seats are free upgrades fo
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San Franciscans need to earn $333,000 a year to buy a median-priced home(m.sfgate.com)
2 points by ericfrenkiel 8y ago|5 comments
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SF will wipe thousands of marijuana convictions off the books(sfgate.com)
2 points by ericfrenkiel 9y ago|0 comments
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
Echo the sentiments about "Hyperion" - one of my favorite sci-fi sagas of all time. The author is incredible because his prose are mellifluous regardless and across genre - sci-fi, drama, horror, and historical fiction are all in
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
::slow clap:: It is absolutely appalling that this type of backwardness is still a reality in the 21st century. The faster we can transition to clean, renewable energy, the better for everyone in the world.
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
> By comparison... is the operative phrase. Your fallacy is conflating engineering work and an individual engineer's scope on said work. Projects can fail, engineering teams can face delays - all common things. But an individual eng
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
It really depends on the type of business - if it's a high-volume business, then your proposal is often used by sales organizations. You might call this an "order taking" business - low ASP (average sales price), simple produ
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
Having empathy for fields outside your own is exactly why this article is written. It sounds like you only have a single perspective, which is fine, but having more perspectives would help you move beyond being so rigid in your thinking.
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
Sales people earn commission because their work is "non-deterministic," meaning they could execute a perfect sales strategy to win an account but the opportunity could still fall through for circumstances beyond the rep's con
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
This is likely to become the ultimate "time capsule," for a human to recover in the not-too-distant future, when a few light-weeks of travel is commonplace.
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
Right; economics probably exaggerates what is already a biological reality.
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
It's a well known fact in human biology. Just a couple links on the reasons why: "Researchers uncover several reasons why boys are 'weaker sex'" https://www.upi.com/Researchers-uncover-several-reason
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
I would posit this was a "winner take all" outcome compounded by economics and biology. High infant mortality, as well as the high risk of death from even a simple infection or injury, would be enough to reduce the number of ma
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
That is ad hominem in the extreme. Governments are charged with powers that individuals do not possess. If the state declares poaching, which is already by definition a crime, to be punishable by death, it is not murder if it is enforced by
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
I'm sorry, no. I must respectfully disagree here - death to poachers is fair when we're talking about the extinction of species, and certainly of some of the most majestic creatures on our planet. We have 7+ billion humans and few
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
Yes, it's why we at MemSQL added a column store on disk in 2014. Memory-only is too limiting and has evolved to a notion of "memory-first."
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by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
I'm one of the founders at MemSQL, which does what you describe.
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MemSQL (YC W11) unveils a multicloud managed service for real-time data warehousing(memsql.com)
28 points by ericfrenkiel 9y ago|0 comments
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A Startup’s Plan to Cut Air Freight Costs in Half with 777-Size Drones(fastcompany.com)
3 points by ericfrenkiel 10y ago|1 comments
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by ericfrenkiel 10y ago
I'm one of the founders at MemSQL, which is designed for real-time analytics. Take it for a spin and see if it works for you.
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Cisco buys app performance management company AppDynamics for $3.7B(venturebeat.com)
7 points by ericfrenkiel 10y ago|0 comments
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by ericfrenkiel 10y ago
MemSQL is commercially licensed to do our best to stay in business and keep innovating.
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Adding CREATE PIPELINE to SQL Using Apache Kafka(blog.memsql.com)
10 points by ericfrenkiel 10y ago|0 comments
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Why MemSQL's Pokemon-themed testing solution dumped VMs for containers(techrepublic.com)
1 points by ericfrenkiel 10y ago|0 comments
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by ericfrenkiel 10y ago
A modern - and superior - option would be a mobile application that could provide ongoing and reinforced instruction to the child. As a millennial, we're probably the last generation to learn how to write a letter in elementary school

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