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Re: Domino's: Pizza and Payments

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Why doesn't Google do more to prevent Android apps from being decompiled, inspected and recompiled into modified apps? Yes, there's source code obfuscation, but that only slows down the amateurs.

Because that's not security. The security of your system should be able to withstand an attacker that is able to read the source and arbitrarily modify the client. Otherwise you don't really have security -- you're just hoping no one goes through the effort.

Re: Domino's: Pizza and Payments

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If pizza tastes better when you make it yourself you don't live in a place that has good pizza.

Nothing prevents you from using good ingredients and practicing till you can generate a really good pizza. The one tool you would have trouble replicating, a really high-temp oven, only counts as important for a limited set of pizzas. And you can take steps to get a high-temp oven, if you want to go all-out.

I've done that and on a good day I can maybe replicate the quality of a good place. Surpassing is not happening.

Re: Domino's: Pizza and Payments

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Why not have the payment processor notify the vendor's server directly? I believe PayPal does this.

That's how it works most of the time, at least in my experience. Card details are sent to the processor, a token comes back. You then send the token along with any data relevant to the transaction (which items were purchased, tax zones, coupon codes etc), you then verify on the server that inventory exists etc, and then you send the token (which is only a short-lived represention of the credit card number) and then v…

this is essentially how stripe's implementation works.

CLient side library handles the CC and token generation. Server side you use that token to call stripes backend to process the payment.

Re: Domino's: Pizza and Payments

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing prevents you from using good ingredients and practicing till you can generate a really good pizza. The one tool you would have trouble replicating, a really high-temp oven, only counts as important for a limited set of pizzas. And you can take steps to get a high-temp oven, if you want to go all-out.

I've done that and on a good day I can maybe replicate the quality of a good place. Surpassing is not happening.

Then you aren't a very good cook.

Re: Domino's: Pizza and Payments

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Just like pizza tastes better when you made it yourself, it is sweeter when you were able to code your own working coupon generator.

If pizza tastes better when you make it yourself you don't live in a place that has good pizza.

I work for Deliveroo, so answering your question is literally my job.

I never made pizza myself, but my girlfriend makes an amazing one. Other information, _The Fold_ is awesome. The two information are unrelated. There is no way I’m getting out of any attempt at conciliating those two facts where I win.

Re: Domino's: Pizza and Payments

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I've done that and on a good day I can maybe replicate the quality of a good place. Surpassing is not happening.

Then you aren't a very good cook.

Or, back to my original point, your local places are not good.

Re: Domino's: Pizza and Payments

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I've done that and on a good day I can maybe replicate the quality of a good place. Surpassing is not happening.

Then you aren't a very good cook.

I don't think dexterdog is referring to places like Pizza Hut or Papa Johns.

A person who occasionally (let's say once every other month?) cooks themselves a pizza is not going to do a better job at it than a pizza chef (closer to gourmet than fast food) who is making pizzas for 8 hours a day - every day.

Re: Domino's: Pizza and Payments

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post #57

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Then you aren't a very good cook.

I don't think dexterdog is referring to places like Pizza Hut or Papa Johns. A person who occasionally (let's say once every other month?) cooks themselves a pizza is not going to do a better job at it than a pizza chef (closer to gourmet than fast food) who is making pizzas for 8 hours a day - every day.

Pizza Hut and Papa Johns are to pizza what a Big Mac is to a hamburger.

And it's not just the ingredients and dough. Very few people have an oven capable of cooking a pizza the way it needs to be cooked.

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