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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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Yeah, but what compute? what are they computing? The driving need for edge computing is low-latency. There just isn't the need for it in a restaurant. I do hope they're not doing real-time control of kitchen equipment via something in a container, containers in Linux are nowhere near deterministic enough. This strikes me as someone who is familiar with only web technologies but unfamiliar with control systems attempt…
Could you define what is not deterministic about containerized computing? Examples of things we are controlling are timers for food, cameras that can recognize and track food items, drying machines that will automatically trigger and fry fries.
Should I read this, after Chick-fil-A's "THING" about LGBTQQIAA people? cough
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…
Such a deep commitment to an evidence-based technology approach to business is super surprising from a company that says its corporate purpose is "To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us..." That sort of dissonance is always so confusing to me.
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Intel NUCs come in a wide price range (for example on Newegg the Celeron-based NUC is $130)
This is Brian -- I wrote the article (I suspect I will be typing that a lot tonight). We do clusters with 3 nodes per restaurant, so at full scale (when we have rolled out to every restaurant in the chain) that will be ~6000 nodes, and growing by new stores * 3 going forward. This will support an estimated 100k IoT "things" of various types in the next year and a half to two years (estimate)
Also is Highlander open source? I don't see a link to it in the article.
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I understand that you disagree with the CEO, but how do you get from there to the conclusion that he is not open-minded?
Because he claims that homosexual relationships do not deserve the same state recognition as heterosexual relationships.
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I think you missed the point of my post, which was that this paradox allows anyone to abuse anyone else if the abuser can convince themselves that the abused is really 'intolerant'. As in the Damore case, a certain political group didn't like his message, so they claimed it contained hidden white/male supremacy messages, which was sufficient to justify his termination and abuse (contrary to your ad hominem post-scrip…
I think you missed the point of mine. Doesn't matter. A lot of people made a lot of politicized fuss about the Damore thing, but the simple fact is that his document contained offensive generalizations about women and if I was a woman I would not want to work with him. He's free to say whatever he wants; as I said before, though, this is a fine justification for termination. A lot of people from all sides of the spec…
I may have. It sounded like you were highlighting the paradox itself, while I was intending to highlight the way the paradox lends itself to abuse. Perhaps ironically, your comments about Damore and the memo are exemplary--the memo contains zero offensive generalizations; it's been picked over and no one has produced an 'offensive generalization'--only phrases that allegedly contain offensive hidden messages. And because of those hidden messages, the mob pats itself on the back for helping to suppress Damore's "intolerance" (by the way, the same mob was rationalizing the New York Times hiring Jeong despite her four-year montage of overtly racist tweets). Again, I don't want to focus too much on any one example, because there are so many others and I don't want to steal attention from the broader phenomenon.
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I've always found CFA employees to be kind, courteous, and respectful.
That's irrelevant. Their work generates profits which are used to actively undermine my civil rights.