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by srpeck 10y ago
You might find these benchmarks interesting: http://kparc.com/q4/readme.txt
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by srpeck 11y ago
I wrote a web-based MMO with the goal that players would augment their experience by enhancing their client (potentially allowing a single player to control 10s of units RTS-style) as well as writing AI/bots to help them. The game can
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by srpeck 11y ago
Check out https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS
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by srpeck 11y ago
"Compared to other "password keeper" programs, CryptoTE does not force any structure upon your data: it works with plain ASCII text and does not require you to fill in grids, key-value attributes, descriptions etc. Encryption
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by srpeck 11y ago
My standard response is "What is the pay range? Who is the client?" to the recruiter emails. The recruiters that get back to you generally mean business. Because of this, I have a huge amount of data on contract rates now. Also, a
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by srpeck 11y ago
Completely agree on the gentle introduction and discoverability - you never tell users they are using a 'real' language and database. However, the Excel function language and API are relatively terrible - I think users succeed in
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by srpeck 11y ago
Agreed that Excel is real programming and that data belongs in a database - so why not give it a real programming language with a sufficiently expressive query language? This was my reasoning behind a spreadsheet prototype backed by kdb+ an
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by srpeck 11y ago
Smallest commercially viable SQL database is probably the latest k5/kdb ( http://kparc.com/ ), which is implemented in something like 9KB of code (source: http://kparc.com/o.htm ).
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A graphical sandbox for K(archive.vector.org.uk)
8 points by srpeck 11y ago|1 comments
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by srpeck 11y ago
Agreed on the idea, not necessarily the implementation. I have 2 modes when browsing - reading (docs, news, etc.) or using an application (Gmail, banking, etc.). I do not want to download a >2MB application just to read 1000 words (hence
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by srpeck 11y ago
MMOs do not have to require massive development if you strip the requirements back to the bare essentials. There are a lot of software engineering concepts involved (and tons of messy business logic), but this just makes MMOs better as lear
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by srpeck 11y ago
idlewords' talk ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820445 ) motivated me to take this idea out of my backlog and actually implement it.
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by srpeck 11y ago
I really like the portability and accessibility of HTML files, especially as very thin local apps. Here is one of my projects playing with that concept: https://github.com/srpeck/markdowned
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Show HN: The Internet Is Fast Again – Reading Mode for Chrome(github.com)
2 points by srpeck 11y ago|1 comments
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by srpeck 11y ago
I also used this approach for many of my prototypes - persistence layer as a future feature. Then I found kdb+/q and realized that with the database built into the language, there was no need for separate infrastructure. Here is an MMO
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by srpeck 11y ago
As Microsoft-hesitant as I am, Office 365 handles this use case well, bundling a lot of additional functionality into their subscriptions (Email, Office, etc.) that decreases the administrative load on a small business. SharePoint with a we
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by srpeck 11y ago
I'll call out the really interesting bit in the benchmarking: more than 10x NodeJS.
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by srpeck 11y ago
Code: https://github.com/geocar/dash "really fast webserver for kdb and dashboard-making bits (more than 10x nodejs)"
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Fast Network Server Programming(geocar.sdf1.org)
5 points by srpeck 11y ago|1 comments
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Array Thinking – Let it snow(arraythinking.wordpress.com)
22 points by srpeck 11y ago|4 comments
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by srpeck 11y ago
Have a look at k5's full language spec: http://kparc.com/k.txt
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by srpeck 11y ago
From reading k/q code (or even C code written like the J Incunabulum http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum ), I generally find that it may take me 10x as long to fully understand it due to density
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by srpeck 11y ago
About halfway through: "Being able to interface these fabric-scaled vector processors with rich visualizations of the sort one encounters in R, Excel, MATLAB, Tableau, and other real-time data graphing exploration vendors makes for a g
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Vector Processing Languages: The Future of Analytics and Real-Time BI (2010)(conceptualorigami.blogspot.com)
33 points by srpeck 11y ago|5 comments
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by srpeck 11y ago
q is a language written in k - when in the q interpreter, you can drop into k by typing a single '\', and then return to q using the same method.
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by srpeck 11y ago
32-bit version of q/k4/kdb+: http://kx.com/software-download.php This version is technically unrestricted, but cannot be used for commercial purposes.
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by srpeck 11y ago
Market segmentation, premium pricing, signalling, etc. Basically, when your product is good, you can charge more for it. Free is a great price to get exposure, but unnecessary for extraordinary profitability (see Kx).
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by srpeck 11y ago
Great description from the reference manual ( https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf/blob/master/manual/refma... ): "Kerf is a programming language built on pragmatism, borrowing ideas from many pop
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Vector Processing Languages: The Future of Analytics and Real-Time BI (2010)(conceptualorigami.blogspot.com)
1 points by srpeck 11y ago|0 comments
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by srpeck 11y ago
Love it. "The Commodore 64 version had extra features to support the hardware on that PC. In particular, I added stuff to let you handle sprites, the colour screen, and the sound chip. This extra stuff took about another 4 Kb, so I thi

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