This index is a quarterly (?) ritual for Slashdot and its between completely useless and midly interesting ever since 2001. We don't know what the exact metrics are, what statements we can derive from it and for which audience it could be really important (if ever).

We don't know what that kind of "popularity" actually means: only the top 2 of the list are over 10%, no. 9 is already under 2% of popularity.

If you are long enough in the SW engineering field, you'll meet some language, whether you like them or not. The exact kind depends on your field you are specializing in. You absolutely WILL meet SQL (8) in some form, not sure you ever will see Delphi / Object Pascal these days (9). If you are a Windows admin of any form (but not only there), you absolutely will meet Powershell (#44) in some form, not sure about LabVIEW (#46), even if you are a long-time EE engineer.

This index cannot say, whether you _should_ learn another language. It also does not say, how many projects are developed in it. There must be better metrics out there than this?

Craigslist is the last remnant of a "pre-professionalized" internet (with "professionalized" meaning SEO, algorithms, AI etc.) here.Of course it's a professionally run company, but its business model stayed always the same.

Excel can give you some nice graphics (fast), but the cell-based "addressing" gets in the way of real programming real quick.

My fav James Earl Jones performance is actually psychiatrist charlatan "Doctor D" in "End of Road" (1970, with Stacy Keach). You won't see Jones like that again in other movies.

"Vincent" (Tom Cruise): "I read about this guy. Gets on the MTA, here, and dies. Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices. This corpse doing laps around LA, people on and off, sitting next to him, nobody notices. ..."

Didn't Steven King write a horror story / movie about that topic? "Maximum Overdrive", I think?

I remember, not to be one of the trailblazers of that game, but becoming pretty good at it. Played it excessively between age 9 to 11, after which chess became my new obsession.

Dog shoots YOU!

I remember being relatively late to the Google party, sticking still to Altavista at the time. But when GMail came out I almost immediately signed up. I still have archive mails from when I started with that service, quite a trip down memory lane. GMail was revolutionary 20 years ago, but didn't improve that much, I must say.

Stallman was right about walled software gardens. They became a reality with appstores.

It is with great sadness, I have to report the death of my creator. RIP Ian!

And some people deemed SpaceX' recent Starship launch as failure. Compared to BO that launch was a monumental success.

I remember J. Nolan and HBO talking about potentially 10 seasons and being a worthwile successor to GoT before the season 1. But there's just not enough meat behind the story lines (pun intended). Remember, WW was just two movies from the 70s with the first one being the much more memorable one.

Sorry, had to ask.

One million gigabyte is a petabyte (e.g. look here: http://codycrossanswers.com/un...). So 25 GB x 1,000,000 is 25 Petabytes, 25 Exabytes