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by splonk 5y ago
I worked for a while on dynamic packaging models (user clicks on "flight+hotel", books the flight, and then is presented with a list of hotels at their destination). We used time between booking and date of travel as one of the s
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by splonk 5y ago
There's a paper somewhere (I think from one of the ITA founders) about how flight search is actually NP-complete. I haven't looked carefully but I think these slides cover a lot of it. http://www.ai.mit.edu/course
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by splonk 5y ago
IIRC Flightfox was originally a market where you posted your desired itinerary and constraints and a price, and some travel points nerd could offer you a convoluted routing would meet those constraints for (this is why I ended up booking St
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by splonk 5y ago
They're metropolitan area codes ( https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area_airport_cod... ). They're not consistently useful across sites because different sites connect to different backends (GDS) tha
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by splonk 5y ago
I did something sort of similar. There are limits to what you can do with a side project, and joining a company gets you access to other people with different skill sets from yours. In my particular case after finding a good fit with a sma
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by splonk 5y ago
I don't believe this was the UI that was eventually released, but I got a demo of an Glass prototype where the way to interact was to focus your vision on the buttons in the corner of the virtual screen to click. When the guy told me
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by splonk 5y ago
The two biggest "wow" reactions I ever heard at Google's company wide meetings were from the Keyhole/Google Earth demo right after they were acquired, and the first Google Maps demo with scrollable maps. IIRC the Keyhol
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by splonk 6y ago
I've never played Factorio and have no particular opinion on its value as an interview method, but I assume some of whatever value it has comes from forced team interaction rather than anything inherent in the game. I have turned down
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by splonk 6y ago
I can't find the article, but supposedly yes. IIRC the reason was that the landlord's loan terms are dependent on the income from the building, but that number doesn't recalculate until a new tenant comes in, so accepting lo
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by splonk 6y ago
Not to take away from the main point about cost of living, but I have severe doubt about that quote being representative. Burritos at the local truck that I'm partial to are around $9, which seems par for the course around here. I li
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by splonk 6y ago
The malware app was also called "barcode scanner", published by "the space team", so it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people just found the more popular zxing app on the store and left reviews in the wrong place.
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by splonk 6y ago
ATL is the busiest passenger airport in the world, so I think that just reflects that a large proportion of traffic to and from Florida will route through there, plus just the usual seasonal traffic.
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by splonk 6y ago
Poker is another topic where people wildly overestimate their knowledge but can sometimes present their incorrect ideas in a reasonably coherent way that allows them to be upvoted by other people who also aren't experts. At the bottom
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by splonk 6y ago
It's not impossible, it's just expensive to import and difficult to store. Higher end sushi places would usually have it. Now there are at least two farms in the US producing it that I know of, one in Washington state, and anothe
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by splonk 6y ago
I used to work on this ~10 years ago. I don't know the current policies, but I'm pretty sure I know the rationale for requiring address verification, because I doubt it's changed much. This comment explains half of it - it&#
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by splonk 6y ago
Pretty interesting paper, although I'm not sure it's the one OP was referring to. It's a pretty short paper with a whole pile of graphs at the end, so I encourage people to read it themselves. Quick notes from skimming: -
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by splonk 6y ago
The paper assumes those people are vaccinated first, before the analysis for other age groups comes into play. "Here, we consider that front-line health care workers and other essential personnel (e.g. firefighters, police) who should
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by splonk 6y ago
I hope OSM does well, and I've heard that in some areas (Germany? Various areas in smaller countries that are less well covered? Bike trails and walking trails?) it's notably better than Google Maps. That said, in my neighborho
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by splonk 6y ago
As a AmEng speaker, I think of "having a moment" as being a fairly recent idiom, maybe from the past decade or so. My personal classification of it is that it's used by the same generation that uses "bae", "cr
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by splonk 6y ago
I migrated to iBroadcast. It's free, and it seems to fit my fairly minimal needs. In particular, it allowed uploading everything I dumped from GPM (~7k tracks, apparently), and allows specifying which songs should always be available
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by splonk 6y ago
I just found out about CoM a couple months ago and have been playing it a fair bit since then. I get the complaints, but it's still pretty playable to me, and it's been quite a long time since I played the original, so I may not
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by splonk 6y ago
Another variant of this is "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down." I've usually heard it in reference to Japan, but occasionally other Asian countries as well.
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by splonk 6y ago
Diners Club, although they're a very small player. Some corporate cards as well, I believe. Possibly some of the niche cards targeted at people with very bad credit act this way as well. Basically the very large majority of consumers
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by splonk 6y ago
The saying we had when I worked on this was that we weren't trying to stop fraud, we were just trying to be a slightly harder target than eBay.
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by splonk 6y ago
Good to know. I remember the Tokyo team working on menu item extraction back then, hopefully they managed to make it work. I don't believe we were looking at photo count at all - probably user submitted photos weren't a feature
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by splonk 6y ago
For California, it seems like the SF Bay Area Chowhound refugees went to Hungry Onion, but the LA people went to Food Talk Central. It's pretty unfortunate, since CH really was a good resource back in the day, and now neither site see
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by splonk 6y ago
Agree that it's very simple to do some basic corrections from individual distributions. I just think it's relatively rare to see any of this in the wild (and when it's there, there's often pushback from people complainin
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by splonk 6y ago
5-star rating distributions are heavily bipolar - maybe like 80% of ratings will be 1 or 5. This is part of why some systems end up switching to thumbs up/down. I don't like it much, but empirically, it's how people seem to
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by splonk 6y ago
The example I've always used is that if somebody uses the words "spicy tuna" in their review of a sushi restaurant, I don't want their rating to affect my view of the restaurant at all. Similarly, someone who goes to a
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by splonk 6y ago
This was literally the rationale behind the relaunch of reviews in Google Maps in 2010-11, and what you describe was exactly the internal demo that got the project staffed and funded. I'm not sure how much of it still exists, but for

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