Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by digamber_kamat » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 8:21 AM UTC

Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button
reuters.com

Re: Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by btilly » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 8:41 AM UTC

Yay.

Now can I have a similar button in a restaurant? So I don't have to have my conversation interrupted by people coming by to ask me how dinner is going, and do I can get issues (like running out of water) addressed promptly.

Re: Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by alex_martin » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 8:58 AM UTC

btilly wrote: post #2

Yay. Now can I have a similar button in a restaurant? So I don't have to have my conversation interrupted by people coming by to ask me how dinner is going, and do I can get issues (like running out of water) addressed promptly.

A restaurant the runs like an Amazon warehouse? Where the staff are controlled by a little robotic handset.

"turn left and pick up credit card terminal. Then go to table 32." "say: 'how was your food today sir?'

Sounds fucking awful even if it does get you 10s faster service.

Re: Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by alex_martin » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 9:02 AM UTC

Aircraft must be the antithesis to Agile work and continuous iteration. It's a completely different mindset to anything I've done. Imagine it: 'I pushed a new flight yoke to 737 v2.199. It crashed so I've fixed the bug in v2.200. '

Re: Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by d_r » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 9:05 AM UTC

btilly wrote: post #2

Yay. Now can I have a similar button in a restaurant? So I don't have to have my conversation interrupted by people coming by to ask me how dinner is going, and do I can get issues (like running out of water) addressed promptly.

Many restaurants in China do in fact have such a set of buttons at every table. As an added optimization, wait staff there typically use some kind of mobile devices to order food instead of using paper. I haven't seen many other countries, but I'm surprised both of these innovations aren't more prevalent here in the States.

Re: Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by jacques_chester » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 9:05 AM UTC

alex_martin wrote: post #3

btilly wrote: post #2

Yay. Now can I have a similar button in a restaurant? So I don't have to have my conversation interrupted by people coming by to ask me how dinner is going, and do I can get issues (like running out of water) addressed promptly.

A restaurant the runs like an Amazon warehouse? Where the staff are controlled by a little robotic handset. "turn left and pick up credit card terminal. Then go to table 32." "say: 'how was your food today sir?' Sounds fucking awful even if it does get you 10s faster service.

I once read a poorly-written sci fi based on that exact premise. The system was called "Manna".

Re: Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by enko » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 9:06 AM UTC

alex_martin wrote: post #3

btilly wrote: post #2

Yay. Now can I have a similar button in a restaurant? So I don't have to have my conversation interrupted by people coming by to ask me how dinner is going, and do I can get issues (like running out of water) addressed promptly.

A restaurant the runs like an Amazon warehouse? Where the staff are controlled by a little robotic handset. "turn left and pick up credit card terminal. Then go to table 32." "say: 'how was your food today sir?' Sounds fucking awful even if it does get you 10s faster service.

You basically just described Manna: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Re: Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by cmsj » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 9:08 AM UTC

"rights". It was even right there in the headline of the article!

Re: Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by enko » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 9:10 AM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #6

alex_martin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A restaurant the runs like an Amazon warehouse? Where the staff are controlled by a little robotic handset. "turn left and pick up credit card terminal. Then go to table 32." "say: 'how was your food today sir?' Sounds fucking awful even if it does get you 10s faster service.

I once read a poorly-written sci fi based on that exact premise. The system was called "Manna".

Come on, it wasn't that badly written, and the ideas and insight more than made up for it. I'd definitely recommend it.

Re: Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button

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Post by tomjen3 » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 9:13 AM UTC

enko wrote: post #9

jacques_chester wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once read a poorly-written sci fi based on that exact premise. The system was called "Manna".

Come on, it wasn't that badly written, and the ideas and insight more than made up for it. I'd definitely recommend it.

Agreed, it was pretty good.

Of course once I read it, I started to wonder if I could code mana.