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scoff all you want, that's a better explanation of threading and the dangers entailed than I got in a whole semester of my undergrad. there's an art in explaini
by throwawayaway 12y ago
scoff all you want, that's a better explanation of threading and the dangers entailed than I got in a whole semester of my undergrad. there's an art in explaining something complex simply.
- hamburglar 12y agoI'm sorry, but that talk is depressing. It starts with a grand statement that there's no such thing as threadsafe ruby code, and as a demonstration of that, it shows multithreaded code written by someone who had apparently never heard of synchronization primitives. It then goes on to explain how to use synchronization primitives to make your code threadsafe. It's like watching someone discover error handling for the first time.
- throwawayaway 12y ago> who had apparently never heard of synchronization primitives. i think that's the nub of our difference of opinion. i saw that as a ruse, i don't genuinely believe that the presenter never heard of them.