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Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by mh- »

16bytes wrote: post #169
mh- wrote: post #54

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Google Maps has had this bug with street names not revealing based on any rational priority at varying zoom levels.. for like a decade. I'm going to start using this as an interview question for people to solve.

If you think this is an easy problem to solve, here's an old article that discusses some of the challenges in doing so: https://medium.com/google-design/google-maps-cb0326d165f5

I don't think it's an easy problem to solve at all, that's why I quipped about making it an interview problem. :) In an interview, I'm just interested in hearing people talk through trying to solve difficult problems. Getting to a solution is incidental. And it's way more fun when I don't know of a go-to solution, either.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by CyberDildonics »

bodhiJhawken wrote: post #130
bombcar wrote: post #28

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What does it actually do? People seem to get very excited about it but my flight status is always either “on the plane” or “not on the plane”

I’m a touring lighting designer, I fly anywhere from 20-120 times a year. Every fellow LD I know uses Flighty, any time i get delayed flighty tells me before the airline does. I especially love that it usually tells me or warns me about a delay before I leave the lounge, so i get to spend some more time relaxing. That and of course the amazing data in your flighty passport!

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Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by gib444 »

japanuspus wrote: post #115
ymolodtsov wrote: post #107

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Boarding times are basically not reliable at all. Any time I come 10m after the official boarding time on the ticket there's still a standing line.

Just don't try this on Ryan Air. A good friend got stuck at the airport on a Sunday night after being denied boarding because he waited out the standing line sitting on a bench right by the gate. As soon as the last person standing walked through the checkpoint the gate crew closed the gate -- and completely ignored my friend when he showed up 10 seconds later.

How did his actual boarding time match up with the contractually agreed boarding close time?

Most budget airlines pull this crap but I've started pushing back especially when it's poor weather outside and they expect us to wait in the rain just to improve their metrics

They need some EU261 denied boarding threats/claims to sort them out

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by [deleted] »

friendzis wrote: post #160
phinnaeus wrote: post #8

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Similar in Australia, BNE shows up before SYD. Edit: actually it's even weirder. Here's the zoom levels I see, from zoomed out, to zoomed in: - BNE, MEL - BNE, SYD, MEL - BNE, CBR, MEL (??) - BNE, SYD, CBR, MEL

This screams vibe-coded slop. Think about it, if you were to implement zoom based detail level, you would have to try hard to introduce a bug on line 3, yet it happens to hit prod. Yet, this thread is full of people defending this pre-alpha quality thing.

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Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by drdec »

ggsp wrote: post #110
ymolodtsov wrote: post #107

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Boarding times are basically not reliable at all. Any time I come 10m after the official boarding time on the ticket there's still a standing line.

My guess is that's because boarding a plane is a little bit like being an extra for a film, it's a hurry up and wait situation. If they printed the exact time boarding starts and people showed up then (and later), no flight would ever board on time. Better for the airline to print an earlier time and have people wait longer, so they can board as quickly as possible. Every minute behind schedule costs the airline mone…

AA displays the boarding time in the app instead of the departure time once the flight gets close enough (like same day)

>If they printed the exact time boarding starts and people showed up then (and later), no flight would ever board on time

I don't understand the logic. If everyone is there at the stated boarding time and the airline has correctly allocated enough time for boarding, aren't they winning?

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Post by socalgal2 »

Curious what the criteria are for which airports to show at a given zoom level.

At the default for me it showed SFO and SAN, both green, and did not show LAX. LAX is a bigger and busier airport than SFO and SAN.

I'm not saying they were wrong not to show it. Just curious - It was apparently a common interview question - what place names should you show a map at a certain zoom level.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by bronco21016 »

bombcar wrote: post #146
bronco21016 wrote: post #62

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As airline crew, I stay in the lounge (employee lounge, not bar lounge) when I know I'm not going anywhere on time. Flighty gets heavy use from US airline employees. We're frequently in the airport with a brief break before flying the next flight. Usually, this next flight will be on an aircraft that hasn't arrive to the airport yet. Most of us will find a quiet place to relax for awhile and it's really irritating to…

Sounds like you identified a business opportunity for Flighty - license the functionality or just sell app access to the entire airline, at least for employees.

Nah they’ll ruin it. I’d rather Flighty charge a couple hundred bucks and maintain a comfortable business than let my employer wreck a good thing.
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