multi-threading
You may have noticed that my posting frequency has declined over the last three weeks. That's because I've been busy building that Stack Overflow thing we talked about. It's going well so far. Joel Spolsky also seems to think it's going well,
threads
Programmers* love to futz around with thread priorities. As if programming with threads wasn’t already dangerous enough, we’ve got to get in there and tweak thread priorities to make things run... er... "better.” Let’s fire up Task Manager and take a quick survey of process priorities.