in reply to A Melancholy Monkday

A look at their long term history reveals that...

... they've changed how and what they measure several times, so it's easy for honest empiricists to dismiss their chartjunk.

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Re^2: A Melancholy Monkday
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 20, 2014 at 05:46 UTC

    Even that were true, they've changed it equally for everyone else. So that's a perfectly fair way of measuring things, at least in comparison if not absolutely.

    Languages never truly die, but their usage drops slowly to a point no one wants to do any work worth doing in that anymore.

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      Even that were true, they've changed it equally for everyone else.

      If you change your measurement in December 2013 and do not normalize all previous measurements, you cannot compare December 2013 to any previous month in any meaningful way.

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