[129103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sort by agony
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Aug 27 07:13:41 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikj8AJ5BX1hh9qiFTrbEnCf2UH29KOHrrDb+UZm@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:09:14 -0700
To: Callum Finlayson <callum.finlayson@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:33 AM, Callum Finlayson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Michael J McCafferty
> <mike@m5computersecurity.com> wrote:
>> For kicks, I looked at the most agonizing trip options... I chose a trip
>> from San Diego to New York City... the worst were:
>>
>> 1) Tijuana to Mexico City, 16hr hour layover, then to Newark NJ and cost
>> over $1k.
>>
>> 2) Tijuana to Guadalajara for an 8hr layover, then to Atlanta for a
>> 1.5hr layover to New York LGA.
>
> Made all the more agonizing when you arrive in NY and customs express
> interest in your decission to stop over south of the border for a
> couple of hours.
>
Except neither flight would involve customs in NY. In the first case,
you would clear customs in Newark. In the second, you would
clear customs in Atlanta.
> As others have said -- agony's a nice idea, but the real value gets
> added when you can weight the elements according to your personal
> preferences (and the site can then capture how people choose to weight
> various inconveniences in order to (i) improve their own algorithms,
> and (ii) sell on to other interested parties).
>
I suspect it might not be that hard for them to add and would be
worthy of requesting as a feature.
Owen
>
> C
