If you have a polynomial-time implementation of optimal traveling
salesman, I'll buy that for $500k.

Jeff

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote:
> By the way the original use of the code was used for solving real life
> traveling SalesMan routes for shipping and receiving for a VERY, VERY large
> client, and GAE is not what the final product runs on but we needed
> infrastructure to test the logic on which is what was sold, not the actual
> source code.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brandon Wirtz
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [google-appengine] Re: Isn't .08/hr 1.92/day $59.52/month for a
> 600 MHZ CPU instance with 128 MB memory a LITTLE EXPENSIVE
>
> I have very nice Teselation Code, uses concentric Hexagons in place of
> Circles and works for nested families on a map, and even has a "Driving"
> distance function rather than "As the crow flies" that requires there be a
> road of a given size in the Hex to make the move. And While it isn't well
> tested we have a "driving Time" function that allows for City, Highway, and
> Rural, hexes so that you can specify a that you'd like to find something
> with in a 30 minute radius instead of a 30 mile radius, and if you can hop
> on i80, that will search 30 miles, and if you are in LA it will search 7
> miles. Currently only being used for US maps, but it can be used for Global.
>
>
> Works really well and is blazing fast on GAE.  Sell it to you for $500k.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Schnitzer
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Re: Isn't .08/hr 1.92/day $59.52/month for a
> 600 MHZ CPU instance with 128 MB memory a LITTLE EXPENSIVE
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> GAE FORCES you to think about your code. But it allows you to forget
>> about everything else.
>
> Brandon, I humbly suggest you just haven't hit an edge case yet.
> There are plenty of indexing problems which GAE simply doesn't offer a
> solution to.  When I am forced to think about "does polygon A overlap with
> polygon B?", I look for R-tree indexes... which GAE doesn't offer.  There
> are a million spatial index functions which are no-brainers in PostGIS but
> represent man-years of work on GAE.  And of course there's fulltext
> indexing.
>
> GAE gets more features every month, which is great.  The magic
> anti-exploding-index queries recently added are a godsend.  Fulltext
> indexing is on its way.  And I'll be jumping up and down in happiness when
> true spatial indexes show up.  But let's not pretend that GAE is complete.
> And let's make sure Google knows it when they make missteps like pricing
> large instances unreasonably or offering halfway email solutions that do
> little more than generate complaints on this list.
>
> Jeff
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