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re: Thread Safe Dictionary Update

mnero0429 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:45:46 GMT

There's a problem with this implementation in that it claims that it is serializable. If the object is serialized, it looses its ReaderWriterLockSlim instance once it is deserialized. Upon deserialization, you'll start to encounter NullReferenceExcpetions when you call methods.

Also, do you have a test instance that requires the ReaderWriterLockSlim instance to support lock recursion? I couldn't find any reason for this in your implementation of ThreadSafeDictionary.

Thread Safe Dictionary Using ReaderWriterLockSlim

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re: Work Harder

Brian Rudolph — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:44:33 GMT

Let me clarify and say this:

If a single mother is working hard to supporting multiple children and failing, then society can make up the difference.

The rights and lives of those who are genuinely incapable of providing for themselves are the ones who should benefit from everyone elses hard work.

However, this isn't a political debate. This post was to simply say, you deserve what you work for, nothing more, nothing less - regardless of how it works out.

re: Work Harder

Brian Rudolph — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:35:03 GMT

I am not saying that all people are in equal situations. I am saying that your life is your responsibility. My responsibility is for myself and my family.

If you truly put in 100 hour weeks at whatever it is you do, and have netted nothing from it, try something else.

Every decision has it's consequences.

The reality of life is that the only way you are going to succeed is if you work hard for it(or get really lucky). If you don't, you have no right to complain.

If you work really hard, and life still smacks you in the face, work harder. Any other decision is foolish. Nothing good will come from laziness.

re: Work Harder

Mike Brown — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:31:32 GMT

Yeah because that's what someone in poverty is thinking about...oooh let's go to the library and learn! More than a quarter of the population doesn't have Internet access. Libraries in many areas are as much of a joke as schools...it's probably hard to imagine the obstacles when you haven't had to face them. But trust me they are there and they aren't surmountable without outside help. Like I said, I know a lot of people who worked harder and whom I consider smarter than I am...but because of the situation, they didn't quite make it in life.

re: Work Harder

Brian Rudolph — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:37:28 GMT

Once again, it's always some outside influence. We could accept those theories, or we could take responsibility for our own lives.

I find it difficult in this day in age to accept that knowledge is not at the fingertips of anyone who wants it.

As for schools and teachers, I would have to argue that of what I know, I learned 50% of it in school, 5% of which was from teachers.

Kids these days have libraries, and the internet. No excuses.

re: Work Harder

Mike Brown — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:32:59 GMT

I have to challenge you a bit on that one. The premise of your assertion is that everyone has equal footing during the formative years of their lives. However, there are significant differences between the early opportunities afforded to those with means and those without. For an obvious example, I'm sure you won't argue with me that Brookfield has a significantly better educational system than MPS.

There are also decisions that one's parents could make that impact a person's formational development. To put it simply, if you grow up poor, you're going to have more work ahead of you than not. How easy is it to concentrate on school work when your stomach is rumbling through out the day. Let's not mention dealing with kids teasing you because your shoes are so old the soles are flapping and they can see your toes sticking out from your socks.

And of course because you're going to a poorly-funded school, you're learning from books that were outdated before you were born, from a teacher who knows less about proper grammar than your two year-old sister.

I have a number of childhood friends who grew up in the same conditions as I did. They definitely worked as hard as me if not harder. But because my family wanted better for me, my mom and great aunt saved up enough to send me to private school for the last two years of grammar school. My new school was two blocks away from the old one but it might as well have been a thousand miles! Through that school, I was able to get a scholarship for a good high school.

After that, it was all about my own effort. But if it weren't for my mom (and Great Aunt) sacraficing so that I could go to a private school, I doubt I'd be where I am today.