“Concurrency is a bitch” this famous quote by any developer ever can haunt your everyday work like crazy. Why? Because mainly race-conditions and concurrency does not fit the “normal” way of thinking about code, which normally works like a cursor that processes stuff sequentially.
You know, I often get a very strange itch, when on a long-distance flight: After let’s say 3-5 hours after take-off, when I’ve watched the first 0815-movie, looked through the stuff on my iPad, tried to connect to the non-existing wifi - I sometimes hope for turbulence. Not because I’m with my own Tyler Durden, but because it gives me a feeling of “moving forward”. Meaning that something is actually happening with the plane and we are making progress towards the destination. I catch myself smiling sometimes when then actually some bumps happen.
Today is a really sad day for me. My beloved Podcast-Client Instacast has closed down due to „no money left“. I normally can remember very vividly things or places that that I’ve been to when listening to spoken words. Therefore the following list is something personal.
I just returned from a world of hate and am going to tell you my war story, in order to spare you the trip.