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darrenwsun

Hi Community, I want to play around with 64bit on-demand KDB on my corporate PC, but connection couldn't be established due to firewall and I saw the below error. To address it I need to get the URL for the license server. Does anyone know what it is...

darrenwsun

What worked for me are: read and enjoy the beauty of those q code using vector programming refactor q code that uses loops (they are anti-patterns in many cases) review if explicit "each" is really necessary

darrenwsun

Hah thanks for the quote, but I feel like you might get me wrong... Vector thinking/programming is a beauty of the language, and that's a big part of where q's unprecedented performance comes. In this aspect, it's superior than many other popular lan...

Re: How long should a name be?

As a dev using this language and a practitioner of the technology, I'm proud of it's unprecedented performance and expressiveness in manipulating data. But when someone from other tech background complain about the steep learning curve and difficulty...

darrenwsun

1. Doing this via qpython is no different from those via other interfaces (including q itself): you open a connection (e.g. to tickerplant, assuming a tp+rdb+hdb setup) and call a function that will get your data persisted (e.g. .u.upd[`trade; data])...

darrenwsun

Many thanks! I typed the responses during commute, would love to accompany the explanation with examples but doing that on mobile isn't too easy 

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