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> perhaps he wouldn’t have won if there was some kind of crash. But there was! That bet started in 2007, and 2008-2009 saw the biggest percentage drop in the S&P 500 in decades wit…

Was it Quake? I used to listen to that game CD in my CD player at work, back in the late '90s.

I'm 52 years old, and I have diaries stretching back to 1980 (when I was all of 9 years old!). Over the years I gradually worked on transcribing them from handwriting to comupter t…

Conversely, I'm 52 years old and I've never experienced living in a housing bubble until this most recent ten-year stretch (the runup in property values prior to the 2008 GFC mostl…

> But are you really going to say they stand up to films made in recent years with a fully mature vocabulary? Sure! I've seen 19 of the 42 films you counted as being made between 1…

> Perl had a really, really strong sweet spot in text processing. Still does.

I'm 51. If it was me, I'd DCA it monthly into a 60/40 index like VBIAX over the next year or two. If the market drops near-term, you can re-assess your appetite/tolerance for risk.…

> Creating trees or graphs can be cumbersome Wouldn't Rust have the same problem with this (if not worse)?

> You get nothing useful after a good meal Uh... the nutrition that your body needs to keep going? Is this a trick question?

While the peak-to-trough drop wasn't as bad as QQQ's, the S&P 500 still managed to fall something like 40% from its dot com peak in 2000 over two years, and didn't fully recover un…

I have the opposite problem... I find perl's data structures so ridiculously easy to write that I can quickly build up arrays of hashes of arrays of (ad infinitum) while in the "fl…

I thought only Civ IV used python.

That's what tends to happen, at least in the code I've worked on. C/C++ for the bits that need to "talk" to the OS, python/perl/bash for scripting purposes, and Fortran for the num…

> C, of course, just ignores this problem entirely. Many C/C++ compilers special-case printf, and can actually catch some printf format string problems at compile time. For example…

This is one part (of many) of perl that I like, that it exposes the pointer-y parts to the programmer (to abuse :)) # hash my %a = ( 'one' => 1, 'two' => 2 ); my %b = %a; $b{ 'two'…

Yep. I'm still using my Alcatel Idol 4S Windows Phone as my daily driver.

Fortran 2003 also added BIND(C) and ISO_C_BINDING, which are massively useful in standardizing the C interop.

I can't speak for the others, but why do you think Dallas and Houston are moribund? Based on the last decade of population growth, their respective metro areas certainly seem to be…

I don't care, I still love quirky perl.

Probably referring to examples like VAX/VMS filesystems? I never worked on them much, and only very shallowly. Fortran file I/O has vestiges of record-oriented interfaces still in …

Why does column order matter? If you translate to the equivalent C/C++ row-major order, it should be laid out in memory the same way.

Engineering/science code, e.g. modelling real-world phenomena. Fortran code from the '70s is not that unusual to see, still in production...

> Perl's references are basically pointers. ... This is really a huge, unnecessary wart in the language. Call me crazy :), but I count this as a pro for perl! It makes thinking abo…

Plenty of us still do.

> Would it really be “a massive undertaking to go GNU Octave” when its syntax is a superset of MATLAB’s? Does anyone actually use MATLAB just for the "MATLAB" part of it? Where I w…