This was the 1960s so I imagine it was more godawful than that.

Robert Downey Jr. was nominated to Oscar in 1992, at the age of 27, he didn't win though. There was a joke about him in Simpsons in 1999, so he was already a well known name far before Iron Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjHVQsJOlo

His life is more like an example of how people can get back to the top after years of heavy drug abuse.

Martha Stewart wrote her first book at the age of 42, I would count that as the start of her career.

This chart is a bit confusing, sometimes it lists when people started a later flourishing business, sometime when they were at the top.

Don't expect to do anything cool if you're 46 tho

Yeah, that's not helpful. Almost all these people were working towards their big thing many, many years earlier.

Are you sure? Do you have a source for that claim?

Well she was.

the most extraordinary things anyone ever did

If I was inclined to parrot the "America is the greatest country ever" viewpoint, I would point to the moon landings as the greatest thing we ever did. And it was done by a large collection of smart, well-educated people doing science and mathematics - not by a bunch of hillbillies whose greatest accomplishment in life was figuring out how to mount a big flag on the back of their pickup truck. Even the dudes who rode those rockets to the moon were well-educated in science and mathematics in addition to being brave as fuck. It's ironic that the "America is the greatest" crowd are also generally anti-science.

The other greatest thing we ever did was defeating fascism in WWII. Ironically enough, this was achieved with literally a command economy, not via "free enterprise". Also ironic that the "America is the greatest" crowd now loves fascism. I guess defeating the CSA in the Civil War and ending slavery (sort of) was also a great thing - and once again the irony there is obvious. It's ironies all the way down (including captured Nazi rocket technology essentially forming the basis of the moon landings).

Ew JavaScript

This is my first time hearing that anyone thinks comments are code smells. What's the logic behind that supposed to be?

You know you can click them and see the descriptions and changes? : )

Looks like they are proofreading PRs correcting spelling/whitespace, as the code was hand retyped from scans and has mistakes.

We all know why this was retired.... 😔

Thanks for making me realize after 30 years of life terminally on the computer that computer 'scrolling' is in reference to 'unraveling' the page like an actual scroll

[terminal flipping]

And what about ‘Terminal’, good sir or madam?

Woosh

You can make syntax errors in assembler, too. Ask me how I know.

Assembler for a wire-core memory computer? Isn't assembler for 8080-type systems?

You must be really fun at LAN parties.

You know, someone once said something wise: It is rude to diagnose someone who did not book an appointment with you. I try to stick to that.