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Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by ForrestN »

Sorry to interrupt the eager participation in this engineer recruiting effort (wow, iPads, cool!)

Don't forget that the people who run Chic-Fil-A support a toxic version of Christianity that, among other things, holds that God himself is going to punish the United States because I'm allowed to get married.

(Also, in case you're a few years ahead of the current western ethical consensus, they torture and kill a massive, genocidal number of chickens every year in order to better monetize related public health crises.)

Maybe don't work for them if you value modern society.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by voltagex_ »

abraham_lincoln wrote: post #160
gbear605 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chick-fil-A also has a mobile app that allows you to order your food and pick it up either at the counter or in the drive through, so they need the internet connection for that.

That does not seem like it would require much bandwidth at all, though. You could easily do that on dial-up.

Would you want to run a business today on dialup? Connections have got more reliable, as well as faster.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by ForrestN »

unit91 wrote: post #21
psychometry wrote: post #18

When it comes to Chick-fil-A, there's also the regressive side in addition to the modern and traditional sides. https://hornet.com/stories/chick-fil-a-anti-lgbtq-donations-...

Your comment is essentially "the owners hold certain values I disagree with regarding sexuality, therefore I'm surprised their technical team is any good." I don't see how that follows.

This whole post and thread are an effort to recruit engineers and accumulate good will within the HN community. Pointing out that the company is rotten is extremely important, as is anything else that can undermine the project of manipulating talented, powerful hackers into working on the project of generating profits that power an evil social agenda.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

wenc wrote: post #233
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I currently use a laptop power adapter for the cigarette lighter, which is only on when the car is. The NUC's BIOS is set to turn it on when the power comes on, but I power it off manually before turning off the car. This is not ideal. There is an external battery solution for the NUC, and I bought it! http://www.mini-box.com/NUC-UPS But I haven't switched to it yet. The big upside is that it will gracefully shutdown…

Thanks. Curious, where do you stash the NUC in your car? I imagine it's insulated and not exposed -- otherwise a hot day or a very cold day might kill it.

Actually, it's pretty important for the NUC to get good airflow so it doesn't overheat; insulating it would be a bad idea! I haven't had any temperature-based issues with it, in part because most of the time the car is running I am in it, so I keep the temperature at temperatures I am comfortable in. And the NUC's temperature range is pretty wide as well, which is good, because weather here ranges from -10 F to 110 F.

Probably the only real concern I'm afraid of is condensation when heating up the car on a cold day, but it hasn't been an issue so far, perhaps because the computer is not near a window.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by ForrestN »

ForrestN wrote: post #241

Sorry to interrupt the eager participation in this engineer recruiting effort (wow, iPads, cool!) Don't forget that the people who run Chic-Fil-A support a toxic version of Christianity that, among other things, holds that God himself is going to punish the United States because I'm allowed to get married. (Also, in case you're a few years ahead of the current western ethical consensus, they torture and kill a massiv…

It's painful to scroll to the bottom and see all the suppressed comments about Chic-Fil-A's ethics. Hackers are powerful. Don't give yourselves over to people who would harm your society. If you make a business like this more profitable, you're literally putting money into the coffers of political organizations that seek to take away my rights.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by romwell »

unit91 wrote: post #21
psychometry wrote: post #18

When it comes to Chick-fil-A, there's also the regressive side in addition to the modern and traditional sides. https://hornet.com/stories/chick-fil-a-anti-lgbtq-donations-...

Your comment is essentially "the owners hold certain values I disagree with regarding sexuality, therefore I'm surprised their technical team is any good." I don't see how that follows.

For those coming to the thread later: the parent comment pointed out a certain fact[1] about the corporate activities of Chick-Fil-A that doesn't directly relate to the contents of the article.

The basis was the observation that such articles are,in essence, a "work-for-us" ads, and in that vein, informing the readers of other, broader actions of a corporation is relevant, especially when it pertains to ethics.

[1]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chick-fil-a-gay-marriage/

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by ForrestN »

ForrestN wrote: post #243
unit91 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment is essentially "the owners hold certain values I disagree with regarding sexuality, therefore I'm surprised their technical team is any good." I don't see how that follows.

This whole post and thread are an effort to recruit engineers and accumulate good will within the HN community. Pointing out that the company is rotten is extremely important, as is anything else that can undermine the project of manipulating talented, powerful hackers into working on the project of generating profits that power an evil social agenda.

https://thinkprogress.org/sorry-marco-rubio-chick-fil-still-...

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by [deleted] »

laurentl wrote: post #156
max_im wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For sure. Meant it more as a response to contents of the article that they've managed to break down their business processes into a subset of (dare I say) microservices that have allowed them to pinpoint weaknesses in efficiency and improve upon them - ie. the waffle fries example mentioned.

On the other hand when reading the article I kept thinking of the poor sod who has to cook a new batch of waffle fries because “The Edge” told him to.

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Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by ForrestN »

coffeesn0b wrote: post #167
laurentl wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand when reading the article I kept thinking of the poor sod who has to cook a new batch of waffle fries because “The Edge” told him to.

Ultimately “the edge” will just do it for him :-P

So many cute puns ^____^

Do you guys have any thoughts about this other interesting article?

https://thinkprogress.org/sorry-marco-rubio-chick-fil-still-...

Exciting to see where those dollars you saved are headed!

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by ForrestN »

coffeesn0b wrote: post #215
jedberg wrote: post #208

Sure, they have the biggest cloud in the US, but it's down on Sundays. Kidding aside, do you guys do maintenance on Sundays or is that forbidden by company policy?

They’re really reasonable about it... you do what you need to do. That being said, it’s really REALLY nice to mute pagerduty for a whole day every week.

If only they'd be so reasonable about my family existing, amirite XD
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