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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 …

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 …

Is anyone here using kdb+/q for data engineering, specifically outside of finance?

Well now I feel like an idiot. Thanks!

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])

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 m…

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…

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 ins…

Apologies dang. Won't happen again.

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…

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.

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.)

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 st…

Would you be willing to share what that vim/kdb plugin was... sounds very interesting!

damn peggy

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.youtub…

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 proble…

You should see the carriages on the glasgow subway... They're tiny!

+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…

A Ray-Tracer in 7 Lines of K: http://nsl.com/k/ray/ray.k

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 ban…

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

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. fre…