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This guy really knows how to insult his audience. (By repeatedly saying "This is really obvious...")

• wtetzner 7y ago
  The word "obvious" appears exactly twice in the article, and in neither place is it used in a way I would consider condescending or insulting.
  • javert 7y ago
    > Everything in this post is pretty obvious When someone is struggling to understand something, it's insulting to tell him or her that it's obvious. It's implying that he or she is a moron. It's only not condescending or insulting if the material actually is obvious. And in this case, it's not. I had to re-read one part that he called "obvious," and I used to do computer science research in concurrency. Granted, I had been reading quickly. There is no way any of this is "obvious" to a student learning about concurrency for the first time, and Regehr is a professor and has students, so that category of people is presumably part of his audience. There are HN posters on this thread, presumably intelligent, who did not completely follow the post, so again, he's pretty much calling these people morons, since they didn't follow something that he repeatedly insists is "obvious." > Everything in this post is pretty obvious, but I’ve observed real confusion about the distinction between data race and race condition by people who should know better (for example because they are doing research on concurrency correctness) So there's another class of morons that can't understand the "pretty obvious"... some concurrency researchers.