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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..."
This is unnecessary because they tell you at the airport if your flight is delayed.
Back in my day you had to WALK over to a big sign and try to track down your flight information, or, even worse, you had to talk to the person standing behind the counter. And we all know that that ain't diet Dr Pepper they're drinking in that cup on their counter, no sir, that's 100% pureed baby souls. One time, I was taking a flight to Santa Barbara and I couldn't remember the airport code...well, that's not true. I could remember it, but I'd forgotten my tri-focals, so I couldn't read the blasted sign, and I had to go to that counter to find out about my flight. Well, after standing in line for close to 3 months, I finally get to the counter and the "lady" behind the counter shoots a 4 foot flame from her anus that burned my ticket to little cinders.
Where was I? Oh yeah, I'm stoked for something like this. It beats havin' ta walk, sonny-Jim.
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in seventeen syllables
using Heroku?
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This is unnecessary because they tell you at the airport if your flight is delayed.
Oh dear my, no.
The airlines actually make it a strict policy to lie about delays. They don't release that information until many minutes and often hours until after they know about it. I used to work in the air traffic industry, and the data that I had access to at the time would show me delays that were scheduled by the FAA up to a couple of days in advance, but the airlines kept strict control over that information because leaking it would mean that competitors could offer to pick up passengers from delayed flights.