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Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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Post by [deleted] »

komali2 wrote: post #49
taurath wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't get the whole wait outside for 35 minutes to get marginally better ice cream thing. I feel like people want the tweetbrags about visiting the trendy ice cream shop more than they want the ice cream.

If you are talking about Bi-Rite creamery near Dolores Park, I feel you, but hear me out. Three things: 1. I fucking despise lines. I will pay money, I will forgo comfort, I will give up on a thing I want, if a Line is an obstacle. I'm the jabroni paying VIP entrance to clubs not because I want to be cool, but because I can't be fucked to stand in a line. I won't do it. I'll go hungry before I stand in a line. I boug…

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Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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Post by mc32 »

trevyn wrote: post #70
komali2 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are talking about Bi-Rite creamery near Dolores Park, I feel you, but hear me out. Three things: 1. I fucking despise lines. I will pay money, I will forgo comfort, I will give up on a thing I want, if a Line is an obstacle. I'm the jabroni paying VIP entrance to clubs not because I want to be cool, but because I can't be fucked to stand in a line. I won't do it. I'll go hungry before I stand in a line. I boug…

Bi-Rite is convenient to Dolores Park, but the product is very unexceptional in SF in 2017. Like almost all the other boutique shops, they're not a state-certified pasteurizer, so they're legally required to buy "ice cream base" from one; they use Straus, like most high-end shops in the Bay: https://missionlocal.org/2015/06/san-francisco-ice-cream-is-... http://strausfamilycreamery.com/products/item/organic-wholes...…

I remember back in the day when Mitchell's on 29th was the place to go for ice cream. It was not trendy, but it was popular. And depending on the weather, you'd have to wait in a line out and around the corner.

They're not "special" but they do have some interesting flavors which are regular flavors in other parts of the world (mung bean or mango, etc) rather than going for "unique/experimental" flavors.

Mostly it was regular blue collar SF. Not trendseeking foodsnobs.

I miss the days when food was food and people didn't compete over being trendier than thou.

Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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Post by [deleted] »

komali2 wrote: post #49
taurath wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't get the whole wait outside for 35 minutes to get marginally better ice cream thing. I feel like people want the tweetbrags about visiting the trendy ice cream shop more than they want the ice cream.

If you are talking about Bi-Rite creamery near Dolores Park, I feel you, but hear me out. Three things: 1. I fucking despise lines. I will pay money, I will forgo comfort, I will give up on a thing I want, if a Line is an obstacle. I'm the jabroni paying VIP entrance to clubs not because I want to be cool, but because I can't be fucked to stand in a line. I won't do it. I'll go hungry before I stand in a line. I boug…

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Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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Post by icebraining »

komali2 wrote: post #51
whymsicalburito wrote: post #20

The app requires you to always allow them to track your location. It seemed like an interesting app till I found that out. I probably won't open it back up until I hear that they change this.

I know for a fact I've seen GPS spoofing apps, at least for android.

There are other ways besides GPS, though. With enough permissions, they can track you using the Wifi APs and cellphone towers around you.

A cute way would be to tell you to connect to the Internet using the restaurant's Wifi, and then they'd detect the IP of the connection your phone was making to their servers.

Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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Post by trevyn »

mc32 wrote: post #82
trevyn wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bi-Rite is convenient to Dolores Park, but the product is very unexceptional in SF in 2017. Like almost all the other boutique shops, they're not a state-certified pasteurizer, so they're legally required to buy "ice cream base" from one; they use Straus, like most high-end shops in the Bay: https://missionlocal.org/2015/06/san-francisco-ice-cream-is-... http://strausfamilycreamery.com/products/item/organic-wholes...…

I remember back in the day when Mitchell's on 29th was the place to go for ice cream. It was not trendy, but it was popular. And depending on the weather, you'd have to wait in a line out and around the corner. They're not "special" but they do have some interesting flavors which are regular flavors in other parts of the world (mung bean or mango, etc) rather than going for "unique/experimental" flavors. Mostly it wa…

There are a few ways to look at it -- one way is hipster trendseeking, another way is nerding out about food. If that's not your thing, fine, but it's fair to expect some nerding on HN. :-)

Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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Post by kevinwang »

sabujp wrote: post #89
khc wrote: post #87

Download the Android app because of curiosity. Asks for my Facebook password, uninstalled.

it uses information about what you like, what your friends like etc to determine if it wants to hire you for a gig

Why not just use Facebook oauth flow though?

Edit: or is that what parent comment meant by "asks me for my Facebook password"?

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