I remember noting how programming is one of the only fields where it's reasonable to say "You have to wait for the children to finish being executed before killing the parent", as I was discussing some threading issue with a colleague.
It's worse being a mathematician: you start innocently talking about blowing up the plane [wordpress.com] in the airport on the way back from a conference, and the next thing you know...
It is only OK if it is from multithread killer (Score:5, Funny)
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It's all parallel now on massive GPU's?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Re:It is only OK if it is from multithread killer (Score:5, Funny)
I remember noting how programming is one of the only fields where it's reasonable to say "You have to wait for the children to finish being executed before killing the parent", as I was discussing some threading issue with a colleague.
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An especially cruel serial killer would adhere to the same rule.
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It's worse being a mathematician: you start innocently talking about blowing up the plane [wordpress.com] in the airport on the way back from a conference, and the next thing you know...
Re: It is only OK if it is from multithread killer (Score:2)
Damn, now I am stuck imagining a software transactional memory [realworldhaskell.org]-coordinated TARDIS monad [haskell.org] thread sparks [wordpress.com] killer!