The LJ Stat-o-matic returns!

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Because despite not taking part talismancer will still (justifiably) snark at me if I leave it at that, here's a bonus post! Admittedly it's a meme, but it's the traditional NaBloPoMo one, now back for a seventh year...

2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and now 2014:

Top commenters on boggyb's LiveJournal

1	boggyb	540
2	olego	172
3	pleaseremove	119
4	pewterfish	69
5	tau_iota_mu_c	69
6	ralesk	68
7	omgimsuchadork	61
8	talismancer	58
9	Anonymous	43
10	mirrordreams	42

11	jecook	41
12	dootsie	34
13	elemnar	34
14	crschmidt	32
15	ricold	31
16	justicefornone	29
17	ptristan	27
18	sarah_on_bed	27
19	music4asoul	25
20	nendil	24
21	pteppic	20
22	choros	18
23	ariskari	16
24	tryss	16
25	shebit	15
26	link077	14
27	the_s_guy	14
28	13th_einherjar	13
29	ryutsuki	12
30	sarshin	11
31	allegramente	10
32	ladysparrow	10
33	rustica	10
34	delta_mike	9
35	loobywibble	9
36	shewhohashope	9
37	artisticbardess	8
38	shozabred	8
39	talon8	8
40	katayamma	7
41	ladyofastolat	7
42	milestogo13	7
43	brokencube	6
44	cooba	6
45	hunter22	6
46	mrbartjens	6
47	dragons_way	5
48	frodinia17	5
49	kires	5
50	om_nom_berries	5
51	profaniti	5
52	drkl1ght	4
53	lorriejharris	4
54	ballista	3
55	mindbottling	3
56	pakennedy	3
57	safrialailo	3
58	sideshowmatt	3
59	auto_k	2
60	jcaswell	2
61	jonners99	2
62	lostrules1987	2
63	mi_ciana	2
64	pingback_bot	2
65	thewastednights	2
66	arthur_carden	1
67	auraesque	1
68	bronson66	1
69	doricewujuz	1
70	ext_1791981	1
71	gunga_din	1
72	jonners99_uk	1
73	mercury18	1
74	moronguhl	1
75	odessie	1
76	sakurita	1
77	skeelojoe	1
78	the_hunter	1
79	the_ladylark	1
80	todjig	1

Total Commenters: 80
Total Comments: 1897 (not including 461 deleted and 4 screened)

Report generated Sat Nov 15 23:40:31 GMT 2014 by boggyb's LJ Stat-o-matic 1.1 (inspired by scrapdog's LJ Comment Wizard)

Compared to last year there's been very little change - two pairs in the top 10 have swapped position (ralesk and tau_iota_mu_c, Anonymous and mirrordreams), but in both cases only because one person in the pair has posted any comments.

As a minor aside, it took me only a couple of minutes to download the 150MB zip file for Eclipse, and maybe half that to extract it (then five minutes spent trying to work out why it wasn't starting - it'd help if the 64-bit package actually used the 64-bit Java runtime...). Back when I started university doing the same took much longer - Internet access wasn't anywhere near as fast, and both processors and disks were much slower. Modern computing is fast.

Interestingly my 7-year-old desktop is actually more responsive than the shiny new Lenovo T440 laptop $WORK has allocated. The laptop has a high-end Core i-something-or-other (probably an i5, probably 3GHz, definitely 8 cores), 8GB of RAM, and plenty of disk space. Nyx, the desktop, has an old Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz and only 4 cores), a mere 4GB RAM... and a crazy fast Plextor M5S SSD. It's no contest, really.