[GTALUG] Pre-Meeting September 2015 Dinner [was GTALUG Meeting on 8th September, 2015 at 7:30pm]

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:45:33PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Myles Braithwaite <me at mylesbraithwaite.com>
> 
> | Vote here for where we should go for the pre-meeting dinner:
> | <http://survey.gtalug.org/index.php/437662>.
> 
> Thanks for setting this up!
> 
> Great feature: the yelp link in each entry.
> 
> I think that Doner Kebab House is just a duplicate of Donair Kebab
> House.
> 
> Kathy's Corner seems to mostly be rotisserie chicken (not sandwiches)
> judging by yelp.
> 
> Beware: sessions time out.  I voted but the result was ignored.  I had
> the screen up for a few hours but I didn't know that this was a
> problem.
> 
> The left column is called "Your choices" but it actually lists the
> restaurants you haven't chosen.

So emphasis on "choices" as in the choices you have to pick from, rather
than emphasis on "your" as in the choices you have made.

> Korean Grill House seems to be cooked by the customer, at the table.
> One choice is "all you can eat".  As much fun as that is, I'm not sure
> that's great for finishing on time or being awake in the meeting (I
> admit I'm not good at that).
> 
> This is fun (I haven't finished).  I never realized that it was so
> hard to rank things versus just vote for one.  Algorithmically,
> selecting is O(n) but ranking is O(n log n).  But that assumes that
> comparing is O(1); it seems not to be a bit worse.

-- 
Len Sorensen