alt Hacker NewsI cannot make sense of a single word of this essay. What sort of insight am I missing? There's not a peep here about write barriers, futexes, OS schedulers, critical paths and/or how they relate to Zen or whatever. This article can be easily recycled as the Zen of compiler design or Zen of audio engineering or whatever, without substantially having to chance much of the words, thats how generic it is.
I'm genuinely considering that this is just a foreword and I missed the clickthrough link to the meat of the article.
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> What sort of insight am I missing?
The article makes a lot more sense if you've practiced Zen.
Think of it as someone's way of making sense of Zen teachings by related them to something they already understand.
It is. The next post in the blog expands on the idea in concrete terms. The author doesn’t explicitly say so, but based on the shape of it I would assume all we have right now are the introduction and first full post of what is intended to be a multi-part series.
You are absolutely right.
It is just some daydreaming verbiage trying to connect totally disparate domains in a fanciful manner; nonsense and drivel.
As I continue reading An Introduction to Parallel Programming, I cannot help but notice a connection between communication among processors, communication among human beings, and communication within the individual self.
I say ... Whut?
There is no substance. It's navel-gazing dribble.
The "about" section of the website is equally vacuous:
(The two M-dashes are also suspicious)