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Your Mother Is A Shared Resource

Programming Networking Algorithms

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Your Mother Is A Shared Resource

The classic "your mom" joke gets a distributed systems makeover. In programming, a shared resource is something multiple processes can access simultaneously—often leading to race conditions and deadlocks if not properly managed. Just like how everyone in the office apparently has access to your mother. Brutal efficiency in both the insult and the technical reference.

Found The Programmer

Programming Devops Algorithms Math

16 days ago 82.0K views 0 shares

Found The Programmer

SWEET MOTHER OF PARALLELISM! The teacher thinks cutting boards scales linearly (10 min = 2 pieces, so 15 min = 3 pieces), but our programming hero is having an existential crisis! 😱 They're thinking like a TRUE developer - if one woman takes 9 months to make a baby, then 9 women can make a baby in 1 month, right?! WRONG! Some processes just can't be parallelized, people! And that "multithreading pregnancy" comment? *chef's kiss* Pure genius! It's the perfect programmer response to the classic project manager delusion that throwing more resources at a problem magically makes it faster. Spoiler alert: your build time doesn't care about your deadlines!

Here Lies The True Power Of Java

Java Javascript Programming Backend

1 month ago 102.9K views 0 shares

Here Lies The True Power Of Java

Java devs watching JavaScript desperately add async and multiprocessing like they're collecting infinity stones. Meanwhile Java's been handling threads since '95 and these JS folks are acting like they invented parallel computing. Next they'll "discover" static typing and call it revolutionary. The circle of programming life: wait long enough and your ancient features become someone else's breakthrough innovation.

Serial vs Parallel Execution: A Killer Analogy

Programming Hardware Algorithms Debugging

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Serial vs Parallel Execution: A Killer Analogy

Whoever made this deserves a promotion and a psych evaluation. It's a brilliant visual pun using electrical circuit diagrams to illustrate computing concepts. Serial processing executes tasks one after another (like killers waiting their turn), while parallel processing handles multiple tasks simultaneously (killing your CPU efficiency but getting the job done faster). After 15 years of optimizing code, I still chuckle when junior devs discover threading and suddenly want to parallelize everything. Sure kid, enjoy your race conditions and deadlocks—I'll be over here with my popcorn.

Multithreading Be Like

Hardware Algorithms Programming Debugging Backend

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Multithreading Be Like

The CPU is making you an offer you can't refuse, mafia-style. It demands 32x more computational resources to give you a measly 1.7x speed boost in return. This is the classic multithreading paradox - throwing massive parallelism at a problem only to get diminishing returns because some tasks just don't scale linearly. It's like hiring 32 people to dig a hole when only 2 can fit in the space. The rest just stand around drinking coffee and collecting paychecks. The purple lighting really sets the mood for this computational extortion. Your CPU is basically saying "Nice application you got there... would be a shame if something happened to its performance."

Knock Knock, Who's Ray? Wait, That's Not Right

Programming C++ Algorithms Debugging

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Knock Knock, Who's Ray? Wait, That's Not Right

The joke that haunts multithreaded nightmares! This is a twisted take on the classic knock-knock joke, but with a programming punchline about race conditions. For the uninitiated souls: a race condition is when two threads access shared data simultaneously and the outcome depends on which one finishes first—essentially chaos incarnate. The brilliance here is that "Ray" interrupts before the expected "Race condition who?" response can complete—perfectly demonstrating how race conditions wreck expected program flow. It's basically what happens when your code's timing is about as reliable as a weather forecast.

The Python Threading Paradox

Python Programming Debugging Backend

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The Python Threading Paradox

The Python GIL strikes again! Python's Global Interpreter Lock is like that one coworker who insists they're a "team player" but refuses to let anyone else touch their code. Sure, Python has threads, but they're essentially taking turns using the CPU instead of running simultaneously—like standing in line at the coffee machine instead of everyone making their own coffee. The sarcastic "that's really the most important part" is pure chef's kiss for any developer who's watched their multi-threaded Python program run barely faster than the single-threaded version. For serious parallelism, you'll need multiprocessing or asyncio, because Python threads are just playing pretend!