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Comment · 8 years ago
Gotcha...I would assume to leave it in for use in interactive data analysis, but if you REALLY want to keep things small...
Comment · 8 years ago
IT should exist to help the domain users, but after a point they get too big and start to dictate what gets used even if nobody wants it. Like choosing the data analytics technology for the data analytics team when it is what they don't want/need. So then your data analytics team eventually goes outside budget to get what they actually wanted and you have two products. Very dysfunctional and common.
Comment · 8 years ago
Yea it's actually the most readable in the family to those who haven't put the effort into learning the array paradigm. Dyalog APL & J are the two other main languages in the family that have the largest user bases. Both are pretty awesome.
Comment · 8 years ago
Very difficult with large IT departments to get something unusual like this since you need hardware, a way to transfer data from your main database into an SSD to really take advantage of kdb+. Doing that would step on the toes of several departments and would require a large project to happen. Then you have the problem where many people aren't array language savvy. If kOS had a better way to build real time dashboards I would pay more attention. I really wish I could get a personal setup at work to do this (on the cheap), but classic IT really hates things outside their cotrol.
Comment · 8 years ago
Why remove the GUI stuff?
Comment · 8 years ago
Any news on kOS? I'd love to build a barebones high performance computer with K running on bare metal.
Comment · 8 years ago
I wish there was a way to use this at my company without the monstrous price tag. I also wish kdb+ came with much better dashboard support kinda like Tableau...I want to retrieve and mold my data quickly with kdb+'s query language and once it is in the proper form, play with several chart types.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks...weak sounds a lot more plausible than fully binding.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is Sapir-Whorf thinking. My understanding as a non-linguist is that this has never been proven. I know there is a strong/weak form of the hypothesis, but can't remember what the distinction is.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'll be that guy that brings up Esperanto. I don't speak it fluently yet, but know it faaar better than Spanish which I have years of formal instruction in and have been exposed to a lot of Latin American culture. The important point is I've gotten very comfortable with Esperanto with only < 50 hours of learning. When around the house I can think of small things in Esperanto without trying. Esperanto was invented to be an easy auxiliary language to easily allow the world to communicate. It is against language imperialism.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm right below the cusp where I think it will be more efficient to learn Latex.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sadly that's my assumption too.
Comment · 8 years ago
I would normally agree with you, but that seems subjective.
Comment · 8 years ago
Where did Red Bull exist in 92'?

Dang...wikipedia says it came out in 87'. I can't recall energy drinks before ~2003.

Comment · 8 years ago
Mad respect for you Dom, but why would going from Nim -> JS be Transpiling and Nim-> C++ be compiling? Both go from a high level Lang to another high level Lang.

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