[c0mptonFP]

Ok, next time an engineer on my team can't stop himself from talking about his SIMD lock-free distributed queue, I'll just keep listening. Maybe I get to sleep in the office too.

[tchaffee]

In a waiting culture people almost never talk at length like that. They are eager to listen to other ideas. In fact, meetings are usually shorter.

It's also less stressful. And I almost never hear the kind of skeptical sarcasm you're using here. Both of which are nice.

[kansface]

Both modes are subject to failures. Waiting is subject to live locks and interrupting is subject to thrashing. The socially maladroit or power tripper will misuse or abuse either system.