> 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 with the GFC. We're talking down to levels…
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 text, and that's made them much more…
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 mostly missed my area (DFW), though we were…
> 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 1920-1945, and I'd say the overwhelming…
> 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. If it doesn't, you're easing your way…
> 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 until 2007. (And of course 2008 sent it…
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 "flow". Throw in the ability to actually…
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 number-crunching core.
> 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, gcc 5.4.0 and msvc 19 warned about…
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' } = 99; # prints 2 print $a{ '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 doing well for themselves.
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 the standard, I'm assuming from…
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 about data structures in perl very…
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 work, it's the Simulink part that's…
> 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 with the GFC. We're talking down to levels…
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 text, and that's made them much more…
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 mostly missed my area (DFW), though we were…
> 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 1920-1945, and I'd say the overwhelming…
> 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. If it doesn't, you're easing your way…
> 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 until 2007. (And of course 2008 sent it…
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 "flow". Throw in the ability to actually…
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 number-crunching core.
> 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, gcc 5.4.0 and msvc 19 warned about…
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' } = 99; # prints 2 print $a{ '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 doing well for themselves.
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 the standard, I'm assuming from…
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 about data structures in perl very…
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 work, it's the Simulink part that's…