#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

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view. ↗

— Roger Ailes

#eliminating #just #point #point of view #programming

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#dollars #i #i think #know #making

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#growing #growing up #i #i remember #just

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced. ↗

— Jaime Herrera Buetler

#enjoyed #i #must #npr #programming

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it. ↗

— Michael Medved

#consumes #fretting #industry #little #much

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#because #could #deal #different #discover

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#broadcasts #cable #create #culturally #family

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#flaws #however #java #language #limitations