• rudyharrelson@lemmy.radioEnglish
    36·
    5 months ago

    Not a teacher, per se, but the senior dev on my old team once said something that left me scratching my head. We were trying to troubleshoot an inconsistent bug in our software, and I said, “Maybe it’s a race condition,” to which he replied, “There’s no such thing.”

    Still trying to figure out what he meant by that.

    • Taewyth@jlai.luEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that’s his secret sauce to avoid race conditions

        • Taewyth@jlai.luEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Sérieux le correcteur automatique qui as bien choisis son mot pour faire chier là ahah

        • otp@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          5 months ago

          10/10 joke

          n’avoir pas (verb goes in the middle)

          /joke

          I know it still needs to be conjugated. I also accept the possibility that I could be wrong.

          • jsomae@lemmy.ml
            2·
            5 months ago

            In the infinitive, ne pas verb is the correct order.

            • otp@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              5 months ago

              Ahh, I didn’t get to that part of my French classes, lol

              I learned that “ne” and “pas” are like a sandwich, and the verb stuff being negated is the sandwich contents, so that stuck with me. Lol

              Thanks for the correction!

              • jsomae@lemmy.ml
                2·
                5 months ago

                Yeah, I wasn’t taught this in french class, hardly anyone is. idk why. My teacher told me about it after class when I asked about it.

    • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Maybe he meant there’s no such thing in the context of that application?

      • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radioEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Probably! He was a very smart guy (way more formal education in computer science than I), so I’ve always assumed there was some truth to what he said, but he didn’t elaborate further and I didn’t like bothering him with unnecessary questions, so I never followed up on the topic despite my confusion.