Re: sort by agony

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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