Earn Your Wings (EYW) 2019
Sep 4, 2019, 1:06 pm
#77
Join Date: Aug 2013
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Sep 4, 2019, 1:29 pm
#78
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I may look into other options, but this used to run in an hour. I may actually have a local copy of the entire schedule from other means, but I wanted to start with what works.
Sep 4, 2019, 1:47 pm
#79
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Halifax
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The API takes a date and route. There are 857 routes and ~90 days. 77k API calls takes a long time if you're not parallelizing them
I may look into other options, but this used to run in an hour. I may actually have a local copy of the entire schedule from other means, but I wanted to start with what works.
I may look into other options, but this used to run in an hour. I may actually have a local copy of the entire schedule from other means, but I wanted to start with what works.
Sep 4, 2019, 1:59 pm
#80
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I'm well aware that I COULD do this with AWS, but:
1. It will take a non-zero amount of my time to learn and implement that, whereas I'll have the vast majority of the schedule by the time the rules are posted if I just keep trucking along at low speed.
2. I don't want to piss off AC
p.s. AC please send me an accurate machine-readable schedule. I have an inaccurate one.
Sep 4, 2019, 6:14 pm
#81
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: USA
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200 queries per second seems quite unreasonable (though for most billion dollar companies it wouldn't be a denial of service attack unless you added a several more zeros).
can baseline schedule info be taken from Experflyer or ITA?
once a list of all AC fight #s is known, EF could spill the days per week it operates.. which might limit the search from 60 days to something less.
hmm.... does your Amex Platinum come with Concierge/personal assistant service?
can baseline schedule info be taken from Experflyer or ITA?
once a list of all AC fight #s is known, EF could spill the days per week it operates.. which might limit the search from 60 days to something less.
hmm.... does your Amex Platinum come with Concierge/personal assistant service?
Last edited by expert7700; Sep 4, 2019 at 6:22 pm
Sep 4, 2019, 6:36 pm
#82
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200 queries per second seems quite unreasonable (though for most billion dollar companies it wouldn't be a denial of service attack unless you added a several more zeros).
can baseline schedule info be taken from Experflyer or ITA?
once a list of all AC fight #s is known, EF could spill the days per week it operates.. which might limit the search from 60 days to something less.
hmm.... does your Amex Platinum come with Concierge/personal assistant service?
can baseline schedule info be taken from Experflyer or ITA?
once a list of all AC fight #s is known, EF could spill the days per week it operates.. which might limit the search from 60 days to something less.
hmm.... does your Amex Platinum come with Concierge/personal assistant service?
EF doesn't permit anything like this, and scraping ITA to this level would not be easy either.
Don't worry. I'm good. Which means you're good
Sep 5, 2019, 6:14 am
#84
Join Date: Aug 2019
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Sep 5, 2019, 6:33 am
#85
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I have no idea what the average spend is, only what I spend. And I think like most people who do this, I don't want to share the details. If my spending seems low, a bunch of people will jump in and I'll have a harder time winning; if my spending seems high, I'll get a couple of hundred people splaining to me how I should optimize it by learning to write code.
Sep 5, 2019, 6:36 am
#86
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I have no idea what the average spend is, only what I spend. And I think like most people who do this, I don't want to share the details. If my spending seems low, a bunch of people will jump in and I'll have a harder time winning; if my spending seems high, I'll get a couple of hundred people splaining to me how I should optimize it by learning to write code.
For some, it's not about optimizing, but purely winning. For others, it's the nerd game of optimizing. In the end, this whole thing is a game that people spend "needlessly" on, IMHO.
Aside from that, I would be a willing participant, if the timing is right for me.
Sep 5, 2019, 6:45 am
#87
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Oo! I haven't, and wouldn't mind seeing it.
True that. "Need" is a fairly flexible concept, anyway. Based on conversations I've had with fellow contestants, I suspect some of them lose money on the thing.
True that. "Need" is a fairly flexible concept, anyway. Based on conversations I've had with fellow contestants, I suspect some of them lose money on the thing.
Sep 5, 2019, 6:51 am
#88
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Unless you're hinting that some game it so well that AC gives them money.
Sep 5, 2019, 8:09 am
#89
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I'll wait and see what the contest looks like next Monday, but I do want (need?) to do a mileage run to keep SE for next year, so it may make sense to combine the two.
I am curious on the actual AQM people in the top 10 accumulated during the contest period??
I am curious on the actual AQM people in the top 10 accumulated during the contest period??
Sep 5, 2019, 8:34 am
#90
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