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Hmm, a software manifestation of social and political stereotypes. Kind of leaves a strange aftertaste for an otherwise useful concept. In hindsight it's mild
by metadat 3y ago
Hmm, a software manifestation of social and political stereotypes.
Kind of leaves a strange aftertaste for an otherwise useful concept.
In hindsight it's mildly surprising Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Borat) didn't author this one.
- gonzo41 3y agoJust moving past all of that, isn't this just a priority queue, where friends share the same priority as you?
- metadat 3y agoNice insight. I'd call it an affinity queue, or perhaps an associative priority queue.
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- xg15 3y agoI think that's correct in principle, but the important difference is that you don't have to know the priority in advance. E.g., to implement an Israeli queue using a standard priority queue, you'd have to track the priority of each "friend group" in a separate data structure. Concrete priority values are also difficult to reuse without accidentally inserting a new group in the middle of the queue - so the values are at the risk of overflowing.
- aldarisbm 3y agois it true to assume that in some cases, some messages in the queue might never get processed, if any other messages in the queue have an infinite amount of friends? Reminds of a triage in a hospital.
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]
- BobaFloutist 3y agoI'm sure the term was coined by an Israeli.
- i_am_a_peasant 3y agoYeah, it's pretty usual Jewish humor, which is mostly self deprecating.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoOnly thing is I'm surprised they call it an "Israeli" queue with no reference to elbows.
- yieldcrv 3y agowe should rename these to "main" queues that would surely prove to everyone that I have an understanding on behalf of the effected group I imagined, whom I never asked
- metadat 3y agoTook me a second to get your comment, good one.
- paulddraper 3y agoAh 2020...when we could just waste our time breaking CI with renaming perfectly good branches.