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What is the one technology you think is the most broken, from fire/wheel on out? (my pick: email/passwds as a mechanism for authentication)
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queueing in general is implemented badly because gatekeepers have little incentive to care about fairness
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most things get refined over time as tech improves and users push back. queueing keeps getting reinvented badly from scratch
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yes, but their actual usage is negligible. "let people figure it out and we'll pull off the head" models are a lot more common
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more trivial example: lax flyaway airport bus does the round of terminals 1->7. if it fills up, next bus starts at terminal 1 again.
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basically, i'm *constantly* running into examples of badly implemented queueing; it adds up over time
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