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Original author here: the phrasing placing an order was probably wrong - mcdonald's lists the products they're currently out in their api. I'm just querying for
by rashiq 6y ago
Original author here: the phrasing placing an order was probably wrong - mcdonald's lists the products they're currently out in their api. I'm just querying for those.
No ice cream was harmed in doing this.
- thatsnotmepls 6y ago> I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute Do you have to have a cart in order query for broken machines? If not, why was it mentioned in the tweet?
- royaltjames 6y agoBecause it's hilarious to quantify and state. Why ask ridiculous questions?
- Aeolun 6y agoThat’s one word to describe it. Personally I find it to be in spectacularly bad taste.
- jackric 6y agoBecause it's one extra feather on the scales of increased cynicism about what you see online. Clickbait culture is toxic
- tacLog 6y agoLegitimate question, how and why is clickbait culture toxic? I am not creating it or defending it. I am just a little confused what you mean by that exactly.
- general_pizza 6y agoNot original commenter but I think jackric already alluded to the increased cynicism that develops from clickbait. Personally, when I see so many ppl giving up honest and nuanced statements/opinions for hyperbole in order to gain views/likes, it's disappointing.
- jackric 6y agoRaises the noise in the signal-to-noise ratio of a browsing experience. I may pass over reading a useful truthful article because I'm trained to dismiss its title as misleading.
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- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoBecause it's a meaningless number. If he is actually placing an order for that amount every minute, it would be a useful number (and he would be an asshole for making so many fake orders and filling their system with garbage metrics). If he placed ice-creams in the cart for 8000 stores, then he should give that number. The dollar value is a completely pointless number in this case, and was done purely for clickbait.
- cphoover 6y agoShould be simple enough to filter his IP address out unless he proxied his requests right?
- rashiq 6y agoyeah you have to actually put the order into the cart in order to get the availability of the product
- allenu 6y agoHonestly, this confused me. The number immediately made me think he was submitting fake orders for that amount. I don't know to read it any other way.
- oh_sigh 6y agoMy guess is that there is every possible combination of items that is added to the cart, and then the API response returns what items are unavailable/out of stock. Honestly, I'm not in love with this post for HN. It seems like something done and communicated for twitter clout and is devoid of interesting details.
- cinbun8 6y agoIt helps to say something outrageous like that to attract more attention.
- neilv 6y agoI appreciate the amusement and humor, but you might want to be careful with phrasing on something like this. I think researchers and people who implement interoperation on the Web don't want to run afoul of federal law, nor accidentally give misleading guidance to people new to their kind of work, nor invite new rules that could be overly restrictive.
- gewa 6y agoNice to see you on the Frontpage, what an amazing project!. I remember you introduced me to HN 7 years or so ago at some MUN meeting hahaha.