re: #61 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

so i’m dealing w this guy at work, it would be impossible for him to admit that there was some computer science issue that he was less familiar with than me, that kind of person

now, regarding multiuser and multithreaded applications, he understands the concept of record locking, but no matter how many articles i send him on the use of critical sections in multithreaded applications, he still thinks i have completely fabricated the idea that a heap variable can become inconsistent if a second thread changes it before the first thread needs to access it again, and therefore that patch of code needs some kind of critical section or mutex

What’s scary is I understood all of this. Not that I’ve ever worked on a database, but I’ve worked enough issues where people messed up databases by not paying attention to heap variables. “Jill of all trades, mistress of none.”