sparks

It could severely hurt market liquidity (which everyone claims is so important) if there is a mistake that sparks a panic.

Sparks are for deterministic parallelism, the idea behind sparks is that you create a pool of sparks, each of which represent a small, finite bit of work that can be done in parallel.

In general sparks will represent a finite, deterministic amount of work, whereas threads represent a (potentially) infinite amount of non-deterministic work.

Are you familiar with Haskell's threading model (sparks) and making an assessment based on that, or is it an unbased claim?

There is something about nutrition that always sparks a 500 comment thread on HN.

Just mentioning it in case it sparks a new thought for you.

You better change at least the timing belt, transmission oil and sparks plugs if you hope it to keep running well into the future.

Just saying Nicholas Sparks probably shouldn't be writing news articles.

In Bangalore, the sparks of brilliance are a crackling fire.

In life we procreate and create, offspring and projects the only chance our fleeting sparks have to last into the long night of eternity.

I remember pimps in 'C'town in the late 60's when they walked at night sometimes sparks would fly off their high heels from the metal protectors..

There are sparks of brilliance everywhere.

I do think this is silly; the risk is that it gets upheld and sparks a spate of "arresting normal people".

The sentence about the burritos "[tracing] graceful arcs into the East River, glowing like faint red sparks in the night" will stay in my heart for a long time.

One of those distribution centers is on the outskirts of Reno/Sparks, yet Reno is not included in this for whatever reason.

My view is naturally biased (since I live in the area), but Reno/Sparks might very well be a potential site for such a mini-manufacturing boomlet.