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Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by monocasa »

unit91 wrote: post #99
unit91 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not political. Religious. For those of us who are Christians, our politics are driven by our religion, not the other way around. The Heidelberg Catechism sums it up well: > Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death? > A. That I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.

monocasa, HN won't let me reply to your next comment, but regarding: > a reflection of their religious principles or their political ones This is actually a common misunderstanding and what I'm trying to explain. "Religious principles OR political principles" means there are actually (at least) TWO categories of ideas a person holds, with specific items (homosexuality, death penalty, etc.) falling inside one of those…

> This is actually a common misunderstanding and what I'm trying to explain. "Religious principles OR political principles" means there are actually (at least) TWO categories of ideas a person holds, with specific items (homosexuality, death penalty, etc.) falling inside one of those categories.

> That's a secular worldview, and it isn't how Christians think

And yet literally the previous comment you say

> Not political. Religious.

So which is it?

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

pvg wrote: post #61
factsaresacred wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 'Bigotry'. noun : intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself. Surely castigating the owner of Chick-fil-A for advocating his personal beliefs is the truest example of bigotry here.

You should probably not rely on Google's fairly crappy dictionary definitions.

The quoted definition of bigotry as "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself" is from the New Oxford American Dictionary, from Oxford University Press (the OED people). If that's what Google is using, I don't think I can rely on your definition of "crappy."

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by reaperducer »

walrus01 wrote: post #37

One thing I question is what kind of WAN link a single chicken fast food restaurant can get, or is economical. A lot are in places where the only last mile ISP options will be adsl2+ over copper or docsis cablemodem. I don't see it being a good use of money to spend $600/mo to pay some local ISP for a dedicated 100Mbps line on a 5 year contract. But then again it's highly likely that what they do is not bandwidth int…

One thing I question is what kind of WAN link a single chicken fast food restaurant can get, or is economical

At this point, I don't think it's a problem for CFA.

CFA doesn't try to go into every little town in the nation like McDonald's. It's expansion is very deliberate and only seems to go into very high value locations, where internet presumably isn't a problem.

Moreover, landlords fall all over themselves to land a Chick-fil-a. Almost as much as they do to get an Apple Store. A landlord will make business-grade internet happen, if it means getting a CFA.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by dvtrn »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #107
gbear605 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it running in your car?

I have a custom piece of software that powers a display in the car, syncs and plays my music, and logs GPS. It also can manage audio and video recording and is intended to handle some future features[1] I have planned, so I wanted to over-spec rather than under-spec. [1] It's the same software that runs my home automation system, so an inevitable feature is my car and home units interacting, I wrote half of a piece o…

Have you documented any of this or written on your home automation endeavors? I'm looking to "Tony Stark" my house up a bit (i.e. voice control, some touch enabled panes in the kitchen/office) but want a bit more control than something purpose built, off-the-shelf while also being a bit more insulated than Alexa or Echo. The NUC has been on my radar as a device that I may go with as the brains of the operation, and I'm just curious to read what design and implementation patterns others have taken.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by mountainofdeath »

RandallBrown wrote: post #5
siruncledrew wrote: post #2

I don't know why, but for some reason the juxtaposition of traditional, brick-and-mortar brand images with tech blogs about building modern application technologies is amusing to me. It's seeing two completely different sides of the same organization. There's 0 condescending sentiment behind it, it's just like "wow, that was unexpected."

I worked for Nordstrom for several years and whenever I describe their technology department to another developer they're always pretty shocked. It was pretty shocking to me when I started there too.

It's almost like being down the street from 2+ major technology companies might have rubbed off on them...

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by benburleson »

This was posted in a devops-related slack not too long ago and caused quite a stir over CFA's lack of, uh, diversity. I know it's technically off-topic and frowned upon here, but I believe the fact that they make their beliefs such a big part of the company that it deserves to be pointed out.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by School-Cotton »

max_im wrote: post #85

I work in midtown NYC near a Chick-fil-a location. Used to be a line down the block, went with a friend yesterday thinking we caught the line at a short time but turns out they were using smiley employees with ipads coordinating orders and that they were serving arguably more people than before. Very impressed with how seamlessly they've integrated tech in their brick and mortars in contrast with the countless "cashl…

They've been doing this for several years at least (employees taking orders of people in line). I think since before the iPad was released.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by jsgo »

benatkin wrote: post #72
ve55 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chik-Fil-A is not an arbiter of LGBTQ rights. Their small 6-figure donations to organizations that focus on other issues do very little in the grand scheme of things. Do you really think Chik-Fil-A is directly causing more suffering by donating to a few charities in amounts this small than by raising in captivity and then killing billions of chickens? I see no way to reasonably argue that.

Chick-Fil-A is just the service provider, if not for Chick-Fil-A people would get their chicken elsewhere. If they were raised in a place that felt less like captivity, that would probably be worse for the environment, in terms of using more natural resources per pound of chicken produced. There are trade-offs to everything. Chick-Fil-A isn't really in the meat business, they're in the restaurant business, and given…

pretty sure the ads are just a joke to not eat hamburgers, but to eat chicken whether it be nuggets or sandwiches or whatever which is essentially the menu for Chick-fil-A.
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