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Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)

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Re: Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)

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Post by hamburglar »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #78
hamburglar wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do think you're right that it was a play on that phrase, but there was no "El" in the name. From their website: "La Costena & Burrito Real" [1]

I was thinking of this place: https://www.yelp.com/biz/el-burrito-real-mountain-view It was further down Rengstorff Ave.

Not to embark upon the most pointless internet debate in the world, but I'm absolutly certain that's a mistake. Note that there's another yelp listing for just "Burrito Real" at the same address, and the reviews of the one you link also refer to it as just "Burrito Real." And my gigantic belly from living a block off Rengstorff for years is my cite. :D

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Post by ricardobayes »

randomstring wrote: post #37
ChuckMcM wrote: post #28

This brings back the memories. Another true story to add to this one. I (like many Sun cohorts) loved the burritos at La Costeña market, and we had adopted the FAX trick from Adobe. Then along came the "Distributed Objects Everywhere" project (which invented CORBA) and they wanted an example application so they created "BurritoTool" which used CORBA to find the server that was connected to the fax line, and a nice WY…

During my tenure at Sun the burrito tool faxed your order to Burrito Real (good, but not the institutions that La Costena and La Bamba were). Maybe this was in the wake of La Costena turning off their fax machine. It was a dark day for Bay Area Burritos when they tore down the building that housed La Costena and La Bamba. There was some Burrito magic on that corner of Old Middlefield and Rengstorff.

Our folks have always preferred Baji's Cafe and dare I say - Taco Bell for some reason. Never had the chance of eating at La Costeña.

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Post by space_ghost »

astrange wrote: post #61
wmichelin wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They signed deals with Postmates and Caviar and now they can't ship features that will render those businesses irrelevant.

Neither of those companies exist anymore so that doesn’t seem like a problem.

Postmates still exists, or at least something does that operates under that name.

Re: Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)

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Post by exikyut »

exikyut wrote: post #87
ChuckMcM wrote: post #28

This brings back the memories. Another true story to add to this one. I (like many Sun cohorts) loved the burritos at La Costeña market, and we had adopted the FAX trick from Adobe. Then along came the "Distributed Objects Everywhere" project (which invented CORBA) and they wanted an example application so they created "BurritoTool" which used CORBA to find the server that was connected to the fax line, and a nice WY…

This is both an awesome story and IMHO a great example of why "scalability" and "future-proof design" and object-oriented-everything-successfully-talks-to-all-the-stuff-that-hasn't-been-written-yet are not the be all end all. My beef: the chances that someone setting up that demo would have gone "wait, hang on, where is this actually going?" would IMO have been significantly higher in a pragmatic/imperative/monolithi…

(NB. The intersection of programming language design and psychology is something I find incredibly interesting, so if you disagree with the my parent comment, can see glaring flaws in it, or have otherwise constructive criticism, I would very much like to know.)

Re: Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)

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Post by astrange »

space_ghost wrote: post #94
astrange wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neither of those companies exist anymore so that doesn’t seem like a problem.

Postmates still exists, or at least something does that operates under that name.

Postmates was acquired by Uber last month I believe. Caviar was acquired by Doordash and the brand only sort of still exists.

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Post by urbandw311er »

thirtyseven wrote: post #5

Can't help but wonder if receiving a professionally typeset burrito order by fax would have raised any eyebrows in 1992.

Apparently the restaurant distributed its own order form for completion then sending via Fax. The original author of the program reproduced it in Postscript almost perfectly, including the typos!

Source: http://plinth.org/techtalk/?p=81

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Post by neartheplain »

philsnow wrote: post #82
neild wrote: post #51

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I’d do much for one more burrito from the old school La Costeña. They were so good. La Bamba had the best meat; just a plain pollo burrito was a thing of glory, and their carnitas was transcendent. But La Costeña was where it was at if you wanted a burrito with stuff in.

Was La Bamba the place that had the very very long burrito?

That's La Costeña. Their "super burrito" was very long indeed, compared to other taquerias where "super burrito" is typically the same length but with guac. As I recall, they had a mockup super burrito mounted on the wall along with the regular and small sizes.

They also have a photo of their "world's longest burrito" record in the store, and on their website:

http://costena.com/

Re: Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)

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Post by smarks »

drfuchs wrote: post #63
smarks wrote: post #57

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The “Tin Man”? Is that the same as the Barfing Boy?

It's the one of the guy hanging out of the white structure at https://www.ilovemv.org/new-blog-1/category/public-art-tour3

Yeah, that's the one that I've heard referred to as the Barfing Boy.
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