Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 21, 2009 @05:09AM 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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Re:cool story by Anonymous Coward · 2009-08-21 05:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I gotta go bake a quiche. Ladies, get your pussies ready, but don't taze me bro.
Am I Dreaming? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-08-21 05:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

or most of the stories below the current one REPOSTS?
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