On: Queues should be empty

[setr]

In my uni, the class was more or less unadvertised and the professor largely ignored — you had to go out of your way to take it (I was actively looking for poorly rated professors, because I figured they were usually rated such because they graded hard… which probably meant they cared more). When I tried to google the subject/code examples afterwards, I largely only found textbooks and one-off blog posts.

Also a lot of GitHub repos with names like CS550…

Only place I’ve seen it referenced since that class was:

1. HN periodically

2. A YouTube documentary about Disneyland fast pass queues

3. A business optimization consultancy

Ultimately, a pretty niche subject area AFAICT. But implementing a fairly efficient queuing simulation seems to be pretty easy, and the subject seems to be stupid powerful and broadly applicable… so I’ve never understood why it’s not more discussed

[OJFord → setr]

Compared to what, as if say information theory comes up (explicitly) all the time? Seems like you could say that about any more theoretically oriented course.