[129105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sort by agony
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Aug 27 08:10:04 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <4C7793DC.4090402@trelane.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:09:55 -0400
To: Andrew Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 27, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Andrew Kirch wrote:
> On 8/27/2010 4:33 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:
>>>=20
>>> 1) Tijuana to Mexico City, 16hr hour layover, then to Newark NJ and =
cost
>>> over $1k.
>>>=20
>>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> C
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> right and be able to crank the agony up based on a given airport =
(ATL... I am looking at you here)
Agony can frequently be made more specific. For example, one big problem =
in ATL at this time of year is thunderstorms, and these are likely to =
happen in the afternoon. (A late summer afternoon in North Georgia is =
almost certain to have some thunderstorms moving through.) So, a flight =
in August with a 10:00 AM change in ATL, I don't worry about. A flight =
with a 4:00 PM change, I assume I am likely to be late if not bumped to =
the next day.
There are many airports with similar time variability (LHR at 9:00 AM!), =
and all of this data is out there. It would be a powerful selling point =
if the agony index included such granularity.=20
Regards
Marshall
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> Andrew
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