Audrey has flown around the world – twice

Posted by Jeff Boulter on 23 July 2009, 6:53 pm

Audrey turns 2 tomorrow. It’s hard to believe. While it’s exciting to see her learn and grow, there’s one thing we’ll miss about her being under 2 – flying for free. It’s a perk we’ve taken advantage a lot and not just when we lived on the West coast. I was curious how much we’ve …

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Why is programming threads hard?

Posted by Jeff Boulter on 18 July 2009, 7:52 am

I keep reading stuff about most engineers being too stupid to understand how to program threads. I don’t get it. I never used threads until I started programming in Java 10+ years ago and it seemed pretty easy. You create a new thread, let it do some stuff and join() on it if you want …

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Audrey has flown around the world – twice

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