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MartinB comments on Personal Benefits from Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Celer 12 May 2011 01:08AM

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Comment author: MartinB 12 May 2011 08:22:46PM 1 point [-]

using a queue instead of a stack for scheduling chores

I am not a native English speaker, and so usually saw these as synonymous. Could you explain a bit what the difference is?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 May 2011 08:57:48PM 4 points [-]
Comment author: MartinB 12 May 2011 09:49:25PM 1 point [-]

Ahh, yes of course. LIFO vs. FIFO. Thank you for explaining.