#programming

Compound actions on shared state, such as incrementing a hit counter (read-modify-write) or lazy initialization (check-then-act), must be made atomic to avoid race conditions. Holding a lock for the entire duration of a compound action can make that compound action atomic. However, just wrapping the compound action with a synchronized block is not sufficient; if synchronization is used to coordinate access to a variable, it is needed everywhere that variable is accessed. Further, when using locks to coordinate access to a variable, the same lock must be used wherever that variable is accessed. ↗

— Brian Goetz

#java #programming #synchronicity

Accessing shared, mutable data requires using synchronization; one way to avoid this requirement is to not share. If data is only accessed from a single thread, no synchronization is needed. This technique, thread confinement, is one of the simplest ways to achieve thread safety. When an object is confined to a thread, such usage is automatically thread-safe even if the confined object itself is not. ↗

— Brian Goetz

#java #programming #synchronicity

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#easy #employees #end #global #industries

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe. ↗

— Mario Batali

#bow #came #come #cook #did

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#antisocial #computer #gets #programming #think

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#having #heart #house #like #network

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#basically #believe #beyond #consider #discussing

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air. ↗

— Brit Hume

#because #certain #cnn #could #day

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#become #business #computers #fast #five

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#beyond #exposure #good #had #hope