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by kfk 7y ago
So normally I read 30 to 40 % of municipal waste is organic. There is a lot of interesting work being done in accelerating that conversion to proteins and fats via insets. Shouldn’t we couple incinerator strategies with something like this?
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by kfk 7y ago
It’s a great project but they could be more clear about that 20% cut they take and why it’s double what they partners take. How does it scale? 20% makes sense when you are dealing with, say, 100m of donations, but not so great when it’s 1B.
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by kfk 7y ago
It amuses me IT management is ok to pay millions in terrible software license fees (i.e. most of Oracle products), but not ok to budget a couple of millions to have a team develop some of that internally. Also another amusing fact is that m
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by kfk 7y ago
well, companies do it all the time when they buy “enterprise” packages. I believe SAP is closed source and it’s the life and blood of most companies’ IT infrastructure.
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by kfk 7y ago
Interesting enough both ananas here and Alteryx use a declarative approach. Alteryx is using XML and Ananas YAML
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by kfk 7y ago
Redash is comparable to Superset, Tableau, etc.. Ananas analytics is comparable to Talend, Airflow, etc.
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by kfk 7y ago
Will you have a server too? Another issue is scheduling, triggers, etc.. You are in this strange space between Excel and “enterprise” ETL like Talend. We are so frustrated with the current poor state of data prep that we went to Python base
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by kfk 7y ago
This looks good. One of your competitors charges about $4,000 per seat per year so this seems to be a good space. If you add the possibility of building user defined nodes with Python you’d have a solid product.
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by kfk 7y ago
Hey, at work we have been forced to use Denodo. How does this compare to Denodo? Seems a lot better and doesn’t try to do any “data virtualization”. I am a bit scared by the query optimizer because the Denodo one is super buggy. Overall I t
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by kfk 7y ago
Very random question. It’s the first I come across a concatenative programming language. Is SQL also concatenative in a way? I am thinking what you can do by chaining subqueries together for instance using “WITH”.
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by kfk 7y ago
Do you have any links? Because as far as I can see we can easily grow larvae from biomass (including food scraps) and we can feed larvae to fish. I guess throw some genetic engineering in there and it should work. What am I missing?
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by kfk 7y ago
And as I grow older I get more and more convinced that Excel is overrated. I ask myself, WHY in Excel so popular? And I keep coming back to the same answer: because it's live. But we do have this concept in the programming community (s
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by kfk 7y ago
Not sure I understand the negativity. Yes non tech companies might produce horrible programs, but at least this is a breath of fresh air vs the standard “vendors only” IT approach. There are plenty of horror stories of companies trusting “e
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by kfk 7y ago
This is interesting, how do the summaries work? By the way I have just added a “salesforce buys tableau” article and the summary of my source link doesn’t seem to work. Here: https://news.hoxly.com/story/165
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by kfk 7y ago
Advocates of real free markets want a carbon tax. Externalities are a real problem and there is a lot of economics research on how to deal with it. The issue is that “right wing” has passed to signify “liberal”. There is nothing less libera
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by kfk 7y ago
I think his paragraph on outsourcing and "core competencies" is spot on. I would take it a bit further, however, since another consequence of this is IT trying to buy every solution from an external software vendor (Oracle, SAP, M
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by kfk 7y ago
I have designed one for 500 dashboard users and various other requirements. My advise would be to get a cheap SQL compliant database that does not require a lot of maintenance (if you can afford buy a cloud one). Then for the analysis part
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by kfk 7y ago
I have had to work with the Denodo for the past 1+ year, a total nightmare. Data virtualization is a "good in theory" concept but "doesn't work in practice" reality. Going back to the original sources for each query
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by kfk 7y ago
I am hiring one in Krakow! Seriously though, in a team of 10 business analysts I can barely afford 1 data engineer. Business analysts tend to cost less and also be more "business focuses", so they are an easier sell to management.
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by kfk 7y ago
Wait until a manager asks you to do something that Salesforce was not built for and IT tells you a back office resource can do it. None of those of the shelves enterprise solutions just work, they all need some degree of customization and i
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by kfk 7y ago
In business analytics backend > frontend. If you are a business analyst you want all your data at your finger tips + the ability of running somewhat complex transformations and calculations. You also need to be able to validate data with
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by kfk 7y ago
The businesses are coming with requests that require complex SQL on millions of records of data that normally is sitting in various sources (warehouse, salesforce, etc.). Unless you hire expensive data engineers, you can't do this typ
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by kfk 7y ago
So I have to deal with both tools at my company. The reality is that it all feels so incomplete from a BI standpoint. Managers are throwing money at front end tools like Salesforce and Tableau, but the entire back end stack is still pretty
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by kfk 7y ago
I think the main issue with bikes is that they are seen as inferior by the transport administration. For instance if there is heavy snow they’ll clean up the car roads but not necessarily the bike ones. Also many times car roads are straigh
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by kfk 7y ago
I lived in Spain, Denmark and Germany. Let’s take Munich Germany as that’s where I live now. While bikes are definitely a cultural thing here, many people definitely prefer them because the public transport doesn’t get you easily to all pla
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by kfk 7y ago
In Denmark and Germany public transportation is not always that good, they rely heavily on bikes. For instance in Madrid you can rely 100% on a nice, on time, metro system. I hope it’s different in Norway and that they also have public tran
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by kfk 7y ago
If you are considering this and it’s a small business, please consider Retool ( https://tryretool.com ) or something similar. The thing with SF is that it’s way too big for starting small and it’s hard to customize when you start
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by kfk 7y ago
And this could be the true Excel killer. If we figure out a paradigm for nested structures (or simple sql relationships really) that is as easy to work with as Excel we would have a very strong case for moving users away from spreadsheets.
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by kfk 7y ago
How does it work with SEO? Can you still show up in google if you target a specific topic?
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by kfk 7y ago
Tableau straight out refuses to make tables that look good because they want users to do charts. So if your users want cross tab looking reports like Pivots, Tables, etc., you'll be left with a very limited solution. Tableau does also

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