Dominos Pizza Tracking in Real-time using Python
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Dominos Pizza Tracking in Real-time using Python
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#2The script appears to be a command-line tool where you plug in your telephone number and it hits a Dominos backend, parses the page and returns the status of your pizza from oven to delivery.
I'm actually surprised Dominos tracks each pizza with that granularity.
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#3That's pretty awesome. You could probably extend this nicely to send you text messages when the status changes.
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#4The script appears to be a command-line tool where you plug in your telephone number and it hits a Dominos backend, parses the page and returns the status of your pizza from oven to delivery. I'm actually surprised Dominos tracks each pizza with that granularity.
The competition in the pizza-delivery business is brutal, these days. They have to adopt every tool to keep pace. In the 1980's, the field was wide open, and Domino's could afford to slack. Now, the field is packed with strong competitors such as Papa John's (founded by former Domino's execs), etc.
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#5You can use this python script to order Domino's pizza from the command line:
http://ryochan7.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/pizza-py-party-02-r...
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#6The script appears to be a command-line tool where you plug in your telephone number and it hits a Dominos backend, parses the page and returns the status of your pizza from oven to delivery. I'm actually surprised Dominos tracks each pizza with that granularity.
The competition in the pizza-delivery business is brutal, these days. They have to adopt every tool to keep pace. In the 1980's, the field was wide open, and Domino's could afford to slack. Now, the field is packed with strong competitors such as Papa John's (founded by former Domino's execs), etc.
I have to find my copy of Snow Crash. That beginning of that novel might foreshadow how cut-throat the pizza delivery business is in the future.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The competition in the pizza-delivery business is brutal, these days. They have to adopt every tool to keep pace. In the 1980's, the field was wide open, and Domino's could afford to slack. Now, the field is packed with strong competitors such as Papa John's (founded by former Domino's execs), etc.
I have to find my copy of Snow Crash. That beginning of that novel might foreshadow how cut-throat the pizza delivery business is in the future.
I gotcha.
"When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else
music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery
...Pizza delivery is a major industry. A managed industry. People went to CosaNostra Pizza University four years just to learn it. Came in its doors unable to write an English sentence, from Abkhazia, Rwanda, Guanajuato, South Jersey, and came out knowing more about pizza than a Bedouin knows about sand."
Re: Dominos Pizza Tracking in Real-time using Python
#8The script appears to be a command-line tool where you plug in your telephone number and it hits a Dominos backend, parses the page and returns the status of your pizza from oven to delivery. I'm actually surprised Dominos tracks each pizza with that granularity.
I'm actually surprised Dominos tracks each pizza with that granularity.
I was a pizza delivery girl for Domino's for many years -- they basically had to make it into an efficiency science, since their niche is in speedy delivery.
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#9Fantastic! Now if only Domino's pizza didn't taste like wet newspaper smothered in ketchup.
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#10Fantastic! Now if only Domino's pizza didn't taste like wet newspaper smothered in ketchup.
Their toasted sandwiches are excellent.