Colleagues who don't know the difference between Asynchronous and Parallel.

Wouldn't it be synchronous and asynchronous?

@mrsulfat Nope. I'm looking at a method that does stuff in parallel (synchronously) that has the word async in the name.

@mrsulfat Parallel: Executing multiple things together -- It is a blocking call

Async: Working in background until the result is ready while the rest of the code gets executed, and only stops at the part where async result is being used -- It is an unblocking call

@gitpush aren't anything that is synchronous a blocking call?

Parallel and Asynchronous are not mutually exclusive.

Ranting about people not knowing stuff while not knowing it yourself, classic

Parallel is running at the same time, asynchronous task runned by some order by the given amount of time.

@jaerie Ok let me offer an definition and see if you agree. The confusion comes from the common concept of a task, so I'll start there. Parallel is doing multiple tasks at the same time. Asynchronous is doing a task and not waiting for it to compete (either fire-and-forget, or with a callback).