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deafpolygontoday at 12:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

honestly, young people these days are smarter than you give them credit for. multi-core and threading is something that pretty much anyone on the internet “gets” conceptually, even if not on an engineering level.


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gaigalastoday at 12:17 PM

So, let me get this straight then.

You believe the audience for a blog about being tired of multi-tasking is young people, from this new generation that is always multi-tasking (on the smartphone, talking to multiple people, etc)?

You honestly believe they need a metaphor like "single thread versus multi-thread" to grasp the idea of what doing multiple things at the same time means, practically?

If you do, ok then. Who am I to disagree?

I still think none of this makes sense, and the metaphor sucks.

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imtringuedtoday at 12:14 PM

I understand processor architectures and I would have preferred the use of the word "in-order" processor over "old single core from the 90s", since in-order CPUs are still being designed and manufactured today.