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Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays

Posted by kdawson on from the fully-buzzword-compliant dept.

murphee writes "Flight delayed again? Should have asked FlightCaster, a new site using statistical analysis to predict the delay of your flight in real-time. What's even better, the services is fully buzzword compliant: it's built with Clojure, distributed with Hadoop, served with Rails, and hosted on Heroku. This interview with one of the FlightCaster developers gives the gory details on architecture, Clojure tips, and your boss a reason to let you have all the multimethods and macros you can eat. Seems like now that O'Reilly's publishing a LISP book, the Age of Parenthesus has come..."

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  1. Heroku link broken by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 4, Informative

    The link for Heroku is broken, it points to http://slashdot.org/heroku.com.
    Here is a working link:
    http://heroku.com/

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  2. Re:Unnecessary by Fnkmaster · · Score: 3, Informative

    Last 2 times I have flown afternoon flights on Continental from Newark to Charleston, SC I have experienced delays on both legs of the trip there and back. The flights back from Charleston to Newark have been delayed by at least 2 hours both times. I fly this route regularly and it's very frequently delayed (>6 of the 12 times I've flown it in the last year). In fact, last time (2 weeks ago), my 6pm flight took off at 8pm, and the 4pm flight still hadn't taken off yet.

    I checked this route in their system and it says it is 85% on-time, 11% delayed less than an hour, and 4% delayed an hour or more.

    I am highly skeptical of this service, based on that initial result. I'll try it out the next few times I fly though.