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Re:An enraging proposal to speed up queues: Serve the last p... by rtets on Monday September 07, 2015 @12:29PM (#10182011)
This article doesn't consider the myriad issues likely to be caused by as many people arriving as late as possible - like the almost inevitable delays to event start times or how in practice you would measure who the last person to arrive was..
Re:An enraging proposal to speed up queues: Serve the last p... by petercooper on Monday September 07, 2015 @01:03PM (#10182140)
Yeah. If I saw a queue like this, I'd monitor it before joining just before the next person was taken.