Re:Eating our own dog food (for lunch)
by ChuckMcM on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:57PM
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I agree that getting up and moving is good for you, so having lunch delivered to your desk is probably not the best idea.
That said, it reminds me of a funny story. At Sun (Mtn View) we would go to La Cosentena[1] and get burritos, you could fax in an order for 'will call' and pick it up which made things a bit smoother. An engineer decided to show off the distributed object technology Sun was building with an example app called 'burrito tool' that you could select your burrito and it would fax it to La Cosentena for pickup.
It was great, and fun, and we bragged about it. Then some enterprising Sales Engineer made a copy and took it with him for use at a trade show. We showed up for lunch and none of our burritos were made, they explained they had been getting hundreds of faxed in burrito orders all morning and stopped making them when nobody came to pick them up. Sure enough, Burrito Tool, even from the floor of the conference in New York city, found the Object request broker back at HQ and forwarded Burrito requests to the real object back in Mtn View. Holy bogus burritos!
That said, it reminds me of a funny story. At Sun (Mtn View) we would go to La Cosentena[1] and get burritos, you could fax in an order for 'will call' and pick it up which made things a bit smoother. An engineer decided to show off the distributed object technology Sun was building with an example app called 'burrito tool' that you could select your burrito and it would fax it to La Cosentena for pickup.
It was great, and fun, and we bragged about it. Then some enterprising Sales Engineer made a copy and took it with him for use at a trade show. We showed up for lunch and none of our burritos were made, they explained they had been getting hundreds of faxed in burrito orders all morning and stopped making them when nobody came to pick them up. Sure enough, Burrito Tool, even from the floor of the conference in New York city, found the Object request broker back at HQ and forwarded Burrito requests to the real object back in Mtn View. Holy bogus burritos!
[1] http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-coste%C3%B1a-mountain-view-2