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Comment · 3 months ago
Arthur Whitney's C is everything but standard
Comment · 3 months ago
maybe all the haters can't do anything but web dev
Comment · 3 months ago
Maybe because people focus on what's important rather than a fancy website? How many startups can't offer more than a fancy website. Warren Buffet, one of the greatest investors of all time has barely a website.
Comment · 3 months ago
So many keyboard warriors with all the hate about a vibe coded website? If you judge a project based on its website, that tells everything about you.
Comment · 7 months ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
QuestDB is just a DB. What people get wrong about KDB is that it's so much more. It's a programming language with DB capabilities. You can use for real time streaming, in memory DB and on disk DB. You can build your entire analytics on top of that. There's nothing else out there that let's you build and entire framework/platform with just one single tech stack.
Comment · 1 year ago
KDB code is as proprietary as java, python, C++ code found at other financial institutions. What's proprietary is the Q language. not the code you write with it
Comment · 1 year ago
Q is not just a query language or a database. It's an array programming language with database capability. You can build an entire framework with just Q, from real-time streaming, to in memory database to on disk database. You can build all APIs and business logic around it. Because it's vector oriented and in memory it's faster than pretty much everything else, no loops required. I have seen a team of 15 KDB developers build what would require an entire etrading department of 200+ developers
Comment · 1 year ago
There's nothing that gets close to KDB. You can build an entire framework with just KDB
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks. Looks like at least someone could follow my thought process
Comment · 1 year ago
No LLM can write KDB yet

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