Slashdot Mirror
Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays
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..."
Clojure is a dialect of LISP. LISP was designed at MIT for the U.S. military to create an intelligent computer. Do we really want computers controlling our air traffic system? I think there needs to be a place for old-fashioned human decision making. Should anyone be able to program their airplanes with the latest "app" or Rails? This is going in a dangerous, unexplored direction and I think Congress should look into it first.
UNITE with the Campaign for a Free Internet because today, our future begins with tomorrow!
*PFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTTTT*
Build your own then, for the country you live in.
(Nah, more fun to complain about those damned Americans not making an effort to extend their programming to your country. (and you'd probably want it for free too, right?)
Sent from your iPad.
Are you serious? International would be flights TO AND FROM THE US TO AND FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY.
Why is this difficult?
Sent from your iPad.