[HN Gopher] Online restaurants hours often wrong as listing serv...
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Online restaurants hours often wrong as listing services are
scraping each other
Author : donohoe
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-10-17 17:21 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (twitter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
| thriftwy wrote:
| Overwriting fresh manual input coming from autoritative source
| with scrape result is sloppy coding which is likely caused by
| combination of developers who do not have understanding or
| affection towards their product and its users; and their
| management who do not care about workings of their product, but
| only about some numbers or features that they report.
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| Such combination is prevalent in our industry. So the product is
| essentially not owned by anybody. It just exists.
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