• rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio
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    2 days ago

    Not a teacher, per se, but the senior dev on my old team once said something that left me scratching my head. We were trying to troubleshoot an inconsistent bug in our software, and I said, “Maybe it’s a race condition,” to which he replied, “There’s no such thing.”

    Still trying to figure out what he meant by that.

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        1 day ago

        Probably! He was a very smart guy (way more formal education in computer science than I), so I’ve always assumed there was some truth to what he said, but he didn’t elaborate further and I didn’t like bothering him with unnecessary questions, so I never followed up on the topic despite my confusion.

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      4 hours ago

      Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that’s his secret sauce to avoid race conditions

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          4 hours ago

          Sérieux le correcteur automatique qui as bien choisis son mot pour faire chier là ahah

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          23 hours ago

          10/10 joke

          n’avoir pas (verb goes in the middle)

          /joke

          I know it still needs to be conjugated. I also accept the possibility that I could be wrong.

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              7 hours ago

              Ahh, I didn’t get to that part of my French classes, lol

              I learned that “ne” and “pas” are like a sandwich, and the verb stuff being negated is the sandwich contents, so that stuck with me. Lol

              Thanks for the correction!