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New comment by throwaway7645 in "K programming language (2005)"

throwaway7645 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:56:59 +0000

Gotcha...I would assume to leave it in for use in interactive data analysis, but if you REALLY want to keep things small...

New comment by throwaway7645 in "K programming language (2005)"

throwaway7645 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:35:23 +0000

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.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "K programming language (2005)"

throwaway7645 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:57:55 +0000

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.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "K programming language (2005)"

throwaway7645 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:42:44 +0000

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.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "K programming language (2005)"

throwaway7645 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:31:00 +0000

Why remove the GUI stuff?

New comment by throwaway7645 in "K programming language (2005)"

throwaway7645 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:09:15 +0000

Any news on kOS? I'd love to build a barebones high performance computer with K running on bare metal.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "K programming language (2005)"

throwaway7645 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:34:25 +0000

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.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'"

throwaway7645 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 01:01:07 +0000

Thanks...weak sounds a lot more plausible than fully binding.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'"

throwaway7645 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:48:04 +0000

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.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'"

throwaway7645 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:19:41 +0000

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.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Paper is dead, long live paper programming"

throwaway7645 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:31:24 +0000

I'm right below the cusp where I think it will be more efficient to learn Latex.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Schism – A self-hosting Scheme to WebAssembly compiler"

throwaway7645 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:21:51 +0000

Sadly that's my assumption too.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Nim language v0.18.0 released"

throwaway7645 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:20:55 +0000

I would normally agree with you, but that seems subjective.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Paper is dead, long live paper programming"

throwaway7645 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:49:36 +0000

Where did Red Bull exist in 92'?

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

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Nim language v0.18.0 released"

throwaway7645 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:37:47 +0000

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.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Nim language v0.18.0 released"

throwaway7645 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:13:48 +0000

This comes up everytime i post about this and most people agree with me that transpile means convert to a different source language. It is definitely a common use, but I realize it is a gray area.

Edit: Compiling def isn't wrong, but Transpiling is more descriptive to me as it indicates you're not going to assembly or machine language or something like that.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Paper is dead, long live paper programming"

throwaway7645 — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:37:08 +0000

So searching an image is definitely nice, but it's a tradeoff in my opinion as it takes much longer to write out an equation in equation editor (I'm very proficient btw) or the other mathematical CAD tools I use when compared to a Notebook sketch. I use them all the time, take a pic and put it in OneNote with some keywords to search.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Nim language v0.18.0 released"

throwaway7645 — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:32:24 +0000

Nim transpiles to C, C++, or JavaScript so it can run on nearly anything (Windows, Linux, MacOS, embedded to some degree, web browser...etc). Cobra appears to be .NET, so a little more restricted I guess.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Paper is dead, long live paper programming"

throwaway7645 — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:54:41 +0000

You'd rather have plain text than hand-written diagrams? I think most of the difficulty is in not knowing APL like notation.

New comment by throwaway7645 in "Paper is dead, long live paper programming"

throwaway7645 — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:15:10 +0000

Slower than typing, yes. However, I'll take APL by hand over Python which is commonly viewed as terse if I could think in APL as well as the author.