Rob Pike – Concurrency is not Parallelism

Title: Concurrency is not parallelism, a blog post by Andrew Gerrand

The sublinked video (by Rob) was big in:

2013 (65 points, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5276140

2012 (174 points, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837147

Pro tip: be aware that people could be using these words to mean different but related concepts but don't assume that everyone makes the same distinction when you're using these words.