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Programming Throwdown · 2025-09-23 · 91 min · 16,911 words

184: Asynchronous Programming

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Programming Throwdown, episode 184, Asynchronous Programming. Take it away, Jason. Hey everybody. Um This is uh gonna be a fun topic.

I think this is something that I don't think they teach this. Uh, well, you know, this is gets back to my like, I took so many theoretical classes. I didn't really take anything practical in college, but but but they didn't, uh, I don't remember learning about this at all in college, but it's extremely important and useful. So I'm excited for us to get into it. Um, but before we do all that, I wanted to talk about something that kind of blew my mind that happened recently to someone uh in our neighborhood.

Okay, so imagine you get a call and it's your son's voice. Like it's actually, oh actually, I don't know if it literally was his voice or if it was just a voice of a child his age, but basically it's it's this voice telling her, it sounded like her son saying, hey. Uh, I'm uh actually I'm not gonna say your son's name even if I could remember it, but but I'm so-and-so, your actual son, right? And you know, I I fell and uh I I need some money to like, you know, help me get to the hospital or whatever, right? And it's a scam, but it's like

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