Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 3, 2015Replying to @zem42@zem42 really? queuing is your candidate from all the choices from fire to bitcoin?1
zem@zem42·Feb 3, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr most things get refined over time as tech improves and users push back. queueing keeps getting reinvented badly from scratch11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 3, 2015Replying to @zem42@zem42 Hmm... I think buzzers and take-a-ticket systems are a) recent b) improvements?1
zem@zem42·Feb 3, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr yes, but their actual usage is negligible. "let people figure it out and we'll pull off the head" models are a lot more common31
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 3, 2015Replying to @zem42@zem42 Though I suppose emergency room patients might think differently.2
zem@zem42·Feb 3, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr basically, i'm *constantly* running into examples of badly implemented queueing; it adds up over time2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 3, 2015Replying to @zem42@zem42 There is something absurd about queue inefficiency as a problem. Like HHGTTG vanishing biros issue :)1
zem@zem42·Feb 3, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr hah, yeah :) though it's actually pretty infuriating for the people on the receiving end2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 3, 2015Replying to @zem42@zem42 To my pleasant surprise though, on recent trip to India, the queue madness was not there. People boarded plane in order.12
zem@zem42·Jun 16, 2020Replying to @vgrhow do you manage to remember and pull up a five year old tweet? i'm impressed :)1
zem@zem42·Jun 16, 2020Replying to @vgroh, i got a notification that someone clicked like on it and thought it was you just tweeting it, the twitter ui confused me (:1