Fenn

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by Fenn 8y ago
Well said :)
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by Fenn 8y ago
Sorry, I possibly stated that poorly - what I meant was: The current state of duopolistic airlines technology suppliers means that there may not be sufficient motiviation to evolve the capabilities of the old systems. Case in point: Regardl
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by Fenn 8y ago
The game theory is indeed complex. > offer compensation equal to the reservation price of the customer It's a little more complex than this. It's highly feasible to offer compensation higher than than the original purchase pric
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by Fenn 8y ago
This. (Disclosure: I'm cofounder/CTO of Volantio). Airlines are very much currently burdened with a legacy that was cemented in sometime in the 50's. It may be worth mentioning that airlines are perhaps less-evil than is appa
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Volantio is hiring Senior Engineers to help make the travel industry better
1 points by Fenn 9y ago
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by Fenn 9y ago
It's a little more nuanced than this. Gate auctions are a good solution, but can only happen in the last ~15-20 minutes prior to departure, which leads to "too late" scenarios as everyone is already present/committed to
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by Fenn 9y ago
This. (Disclosure: I'm co-founder of Adioso/Volantio btw) Just confirming the above: The no-show rate is actually relatively stable in _most_ cases, which is why airlines try and optimize for this by selling past physical aircraft
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Volantio is hiring – Bringing modern tech to the airline industry
1 points by Fenn 10y ago
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by Fenn 10y ago
Slava is one of the smartest people I've met (and I'm sure the rest of the team follows suite) - it's indeed sad that the RethinkDB company is no more. I feel we're at a stage where some of the key technologies/plat
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Volantio is hiring experienced full-stack developers
1 points by Fenn 10y ago
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by Fenn 10y ago
Volantio (YCW09) | Full Stack Engineer | Atlanta | Full-time | ONSITE Volantio is hiring an experienced full-stack developer to help us fix travel tech for airlines. We make some of the world’s biggest travel sites suck less, by providing t
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by Fenn 10y ago
Volantio (YCW09) | Full Stack Engineer | Atlanta | Onsite https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402428
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Volantio is hiring full-stack developers to fix travel tech in airlines
1 points by Fenn 10y ago
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Volantio is hiring full-stack developers to help fix travel tech
1 points by Fenn 11y ago
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Volantio is hiring full stack developers
1 points by Fenn 11y ago
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by Fenn 14y ago
I'd be really interested to see the pricing/commercials around this too. There was a startup that did exactly this a few years back that got Branson's attention and turned into Virgin Charter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Charter -
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by Fenn 15y ago
Hey Simon, Hmmm, you're right about the IE issues ( http://mrcoles.com/blog/cookies-max-age-vs-expires/ ). I haven't looked into how possible/hard expires would be in nginx config, but you could probably hack it in with http://wiki.nginx.o
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by Fenn 15y ago
Expanding on this, one of the things ITA/QPX comes with is a dirty big availability cache that's constantly being primed (and paid for) by their customers (ie: Kayak, Orbitz, et al), who are now ironically not getting any traffic from Googl
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by Fenn 15y ago
I would think the limiting factor is availability. You can pre-compute valid fares between cities super-fast with sufficient computing power, but you're still (somewhat) limited by the rate at which you can update availability, which _still
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by Fenn 15y ago
Anyone had any practical experience with this? I'm somewhat skeptical of the practicality of a graph database backed by a network-connected datastore (as distinct from a graph database exposed over a network interface, ie: neo4j) due to the
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by Fenn 15y ago
Hmmm, interesting! I hadn't heard about that - Do you have a reference URL?
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by Fenn 15y ago
I heartily agree - I may have overstated my case slightly with the "Giant Step Backwards", it just definitely seemed that way on initial experience. It also made for a better title than "Confusion, Then Indifference, Slowly Turning Into Und
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by Fenn 15y ago
It sounds like your experience was very similar to mine. Except that I long ago upgraded my 80-char margin to 120 :)
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by Fenn 15y ago
Hmm, nice spot. Incorrect assumption of synonyms on my part.
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Node.js - A Giant Step Backwards(fenn.posterous.com)
102 points by Fenn 15y ago|114 comments
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by Fenn 16y ago
This absolutely happens, sometimes even in the same round - for example, in YC W09 there were two photo sharing services: Divvyshot and Picurio.
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by Fenn 16y ago
Hah, the images are chosen algorithmically at random based on geo-tags, popularity rank and a few other things. In some cases, less than appropriate ones can sneak in (now moderated). Looks like the algorithm could do with a few tweaks :) O
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by Fenn 16y ago
We've actually just recently added that exact feature (though we're short on South American inventory at the moment): http://adioso.com/nl/amsterdam-to-north-america Looks like we need to tighten up our geo-constraints a little, not quite
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by Fenn 16y ago
This is wonderful stuff, great work guys. Whether it works perfectly from the get-go is immaterial, StartMate, like their fundees, can launch and then iterate. Excited to see the first round come through.
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by Fenn 17y ago
It's not actively in production yet, though that was the original purpose for writing it - I realised it was useful so thought I'd decouple it and release it as a standalone opensource library.

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