Wow. This is why I love HN; it's little gems like that make me come out of my lurk-shell and say thank you. This is amazingly simple, which makes me wonder why I'm writing so much PHP/SQL and not writing code as eloquent as this.
Dominos Pizza Tracking in Real-time using Python
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 nick…
Man, I miss Stephenson's old writing style.
His newer work is good, but nothing compared to his first few.
Re: Dominos Pizza Tracking in Real-time using Python
#13Fantastic! Now if only Domino's pizza didn't taste like wet newspaper smothered in ketchup.
Well, tracking can work both ways. Perhaps you could use this script to help you avoid Domino's pizza.
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#14Fantastic! Now if only Domino's pizza didn't taste like wet newspaper smothered in ketchup.
Pizza snob. You know you eat it at meetups.
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#15You may find it amusing to 'surveil' your Dominoes pizza.
But what if Dominoes did the same to you? This is a short animation by the ACLU, imagining a zero privacy society. http://www.aclu.org/pizza/index.html?orgid=EA071904&MX=1...