Hacking Dunkin' Donuts

Hacking Dunkin' Donuts(notcraig.blogspot.com)

46 points by craigts 15 years ago | 18 comments

jrockway 15 years ago |

I would be more concerned about not moving to a grocery store hole, which is surprisingly easy to do in Chicago. All of Hyde Park, for example. (When I worked at UofC and we wanted to do our semi-monthly soda run, it involved driving to Jewel at 75th/Stony Island. Pretty interesting!)

I used to live up by Chicago/Ashland and that was not fun either. The options were walking a mile (or taking the bus) to Divison/Ashland, or taking the Chicago bus downtown and hitting Whole Foods.

Anyway, there are plenty of Dunkin Donuts. Base your move on something more essential if you don't have a car.

tptacek 15 years ago | |

He's at very little risk of being in a food desert on the north side. No, wait, he's at zero risk of being in a food desert on the north side.

I don't get the Dunkin' thing at all, though. There's a guy in my office that prefers it to Intelligentsia. Psycho.

jrockway 15 years ago | | |

I guess it's OK if you put a lot of cream and sugar in it. Does Intelligentsia even have cream or sugar? I've never looked.

biotech 15 years ago | |

It would be a challenge to find a spot on the North side that wasn't near a Dunkin Donuts. That being said, I think this is a reasonable thing to look for if you aren't sure. I personally don't go to DD, but if you enjoy going there on a regular basis, it can improve your quality of day-to-day life. I've had the same thought regarding living near a Borders/Barnes & Noble.

To the OP and anyone else interested in the North Side of Chicago: I don't think you can go wrong anyplace near the lake between Downtown and Irving Park Rd. It's all beautiful; plenty of grocery stores and Dunkin Donuts'.

enf 15 years ago | |

Wow, is it that bad now in Hyde Park? Back in my day, there was the Co-Op, Mr. G's, and Village Foods, plus University Market and the produce store on 53rd.

MattHampel 15 years ago | | |

There are many grocery stores in Hyde Park -- it certainly is not a food desert.

elliottcarlson 15 years ago |

I love how the comment of the DD JavaScript starts with "Function to perform search on Hotel Addresses from the origin location".

terrellm 15 years ago |

Yet another example of why sites need to validate requests on the server side instead of just assuming Javascript or Select lists will handle all of the validation.

Another technique to use if you can't just modify Javascript is to use the Firefox Tamper Data plugin and intercept & modify requests.

elliottcarlson 15 years ago | |

How did I not know about the Tamper Data plugin - thanks!

peregrine 15 years ago |

I guess I don't see how this is interesting. He views source and modifies parameters.

omaranto 15 years ago | |

It is rather surprising that someone attaches so much importance to being near a Dunkin' Donuts.

craigts 15 years ago | |

I agree this wasn't that technical, but it was mostly just for laughs. If you wanna see some more technical stuff I haven't posted about check out one of my youtube videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51JW-_s-ecE

edge17 15 years ago |

I live in the bay area. Every time I fly back east, the first place I hit is dunkin donuts.

alnayyir 15 years ago | |

>the first place I hit is dunkin donuts

But it's garbage. Boar's head is just as prevalent and way better.

edge17 15 years ago | | |

ha that's difficult to disagree with, but you know what they say, one man's trash....