Incrementing A Variable Quotes & Sayings

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter. — Jami Attenberg

Compound actions on shared state, such as incrementing a hit counter (read-modify-write) or lazy initialization (check-then-act), must be made atomic to avoid race conditions. Holding a lock for the entire duration of a compound action can make that compound action atomic. However, just wrapping the compound action with a synchronized block is not sufficient; if synchronization is used to coordinate access to a variable, it is needed everywhere that variable is accessed. Further, when using locks to coordinate access to a variable, the same lock must be used wherever that variable is accessed. — Brian Goetz

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat. — M.F.K. Fisher

Kaiaphas. I see you finally made some friends. You must have learned to use a toothbrush at last. You know it's the whole up and down, back and forth that confuses people ... or demons. (Xypher) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective. — Dan B. Allender

On The Patty Winters Show this morning a Cheerio sat in a very small chair and was interviewed for close to an hour. — Bret Easton Ellis

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. — M. Scott Peck

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment. — Sarah Kay