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What is the most bizzare opinion you have ever heard from a teacher or professor (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 3 points 22 hours 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.

[–] Taewyth@jlai.lu 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] jwt@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*ne pas avoir

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour 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!