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Re:MongoDB Is Raising Another $100M by throwawayaway on Friday January 09, 2015 @07:52PM (#8865379)
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.
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Re:MongoDB Is Raising Another $100M by hamburglar on Friday January 16, 2015 @01:36AM (#8897517)
I'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.
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Re:MongoDB Is Raising Another $100M by throwawayaway on Saturday January 17, 2015 @10:53AM (#8904535)
> 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.

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