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Dominos Pizza Tracking in Real-time using Python

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The 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.

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

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...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."

Man, I miss Stephenson's old writing style.

His newer work is good, but nothing compared to his first few.

You 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...

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.

Fantastic! Now if only Domino's pizza didn't taste like wet newspaper smothered in ketchup.

Pizza snob. You know you eat it at meetups.

Their toasted sandwiches are excellent.

Well, tracking can work both ways. Perhaps you could use this script to help you avoid Domino's pizza.

That's pretty awesome. You could probably extend this nicely to send you text messages when the status changes.

You 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...

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