So you’ve been thinking about applying your awesome parallel programming skills to some problem that is just complex enough to impress the noobs, but just trivial enough to code in a few lines? Cool. Knock yourself out. But stop trying to parallelize quicksort. Posting articles, tutorials, SO questions, and blog posts with the term “parallel […]
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Freenode Year-End Weather Review and 2013 Forecast
##c, ##c++, ##java, ##javascript and almost all other channels named after an Algol-descended language remained strong in n00b angst and help-vampire congestion (strong counter example is #bash, see below), rendering them useless for anything other than observing flame wars amongst programming newbies arguing over terms they’ve only just discovered on Wikipedia. Expect no change in […]