ectoplasmaboiii

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by ectoplasmaboiii 5y ago
Awesome! I have always wondered if language like spanish and arabic have (widespread) programming languages. As an aside: I guess the fact that k only uses symbols makes it a very inclusive language :)
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
For anyone else interested, Tom Leinster (also of Edinburgh Uni) has also written a good short book for beginners: https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~tl/bct/ I did his course at uni that used this book as a basis and it
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
Is anyone here using kdb+/q for data engineering, specifically outside of finance?
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
Well now I feel like an idiot. Thanks!
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
The ones that I find myself using a lot !gm - google maps !sr/!sro - type in subreddit (add o for old reddit) !so - stack overflow (i usually use it with [tag])
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
I don't know if you're already familiar, but pandoc perfectly bridges this gap for me. You can write things in markdown, then covert it latex no problem with pandoc. You can even make templates for it, and write mathmode in markdo
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
I've tried using the vim plugin for VSCode many times, and every time I come back to it, it just feels... off? The actual vim keybindings work fine when you're editing the document , but I find that when you want to use some of t
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
I'm personally a fan of remapping jk or jj to esc, there barely any instances in the english language where you would use those two letters together, and it means you can leave insert mode whilst barely moving your hands :D
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
Apologies dang. Won't happen again.
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
Hey man, I am from the UK and used to live in the states (north east though, not california). Yes, the quality of food in the USA can be VERY good, especially if you shop at places like wholefoods. The problem tends to be with the cheaper f
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
Sure, we're not great. But it blows my mind that you would ever want to _lower_ the quality of the food you are eating.
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
And the UK govt wants to lower its food standards to do a trade deal with the states :) (No offence to any american friends. I love your country, but your food has some problems.)
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
Interesting posts, looking to make an RSS feeder myself, but in a more bizarre language! By the way, your personal website (if it's yours) is fantastic. Just the right amount of styling to make it look good.
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
Would you be willing to share what that vim/kdb plugin was... sounds very interesting!
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
damn peggy
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
You might be interested in mesh [1], which is sort of what you're angling at. The creator did a video explaining it [2]. [1] https://github.com/chrispsn/mesh [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
I would also shill one of the APL derivatives. I've gone from a happy Python dev to a die hard k/q guy very quickly. These languages completely change the way you approach a problem. It's just a shame that q isn't free f
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
You should see the carriages on the glasgow subway... They're tiny!
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
+1 for radio droid on android, has an alarm clock AND a sleep timer, which seems to be rare on hardware digital radios... (Even BBC sounds doesn't have an alarm clock). If you also want to find different stations around the world there
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
A Ray-Tracer in 7 Lines of K: http://nsl.com/k/ray/ray.k
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by ectoplasmaboiii 6y ago
Not a large K program, but a company I used to work for maintains a large, open source q framework https://github.com/AquaQAnalytics/TorQ which is used in many large investment banks and hedgefunds. Funnily enough, the
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by ectoplasmaboiii 7y ago
I believe they have fixed it. I just did the following: q)a: 1 2 3 0N 3 4 q)sum a 13 q)+/[a] 13
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by ectoplasmaboiii 7y ago
I'm a bit annoyed that I can't find anywhere to download the language, I would like to try it out. I'm a q programmer who loves it, but would love to see a language that is: 1. free and open source 2. less symbol heavy than k