Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A • Hacker News Board

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by unit91 » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

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.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by sincerely » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

scrumption wrote: post #20

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-...

Came here for this. Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol

HN loves to talk about how CS needs ethics courses - this is a great example :|

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by Yhippa » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

From other retail IT I've been involved with, these guys could make an incredibly successful side business doing this to pretty much any retailer.

However when I see that retail stores are using dialup to do batch uploads of inventory and transactions I wonder if their central IT systems would be remotely ready for something like this.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by psychometry » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:18 PM UTC

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.

I never made any statement conflating views of ownership with technical team skills. That's absurd.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by nvahalik » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:19 PM UTC

They call their "cloud": Cloud-Fil-A.

Par excellence.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by stochastic_monk » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:20 PM UTC

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.

No, that was not what he said. He said to keep in mind the opinions of the company owners, which I imagine encourages one to not purchase from them.

I do not see how one can claim a criticism of their engineering follows from his statement.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by scrumption » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:20 PM UTC

sincerely wrote: post #22

scrumption wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here for this. Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol

HN loves to talk about how CS needs ethics courses - this is a great example :|

At least we aren't quite to the point of HN articles praising the cutting edge technology being implemented at Raytheon and Northrop Grumman

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by pluto9 » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

scrumption wrote: post #20

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-...

Came here for this. Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol

Imagine feeling the bizarre compulsion to turn every discussion about technology on HN into yet another tedious political argument.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by stochastic_monk » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

scrumption wrote: post #20

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-...

Came here for this. Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol

This was not helpful. Sometimes people take jobs just to survive; I know I have.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by joezydeco » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

Having worked with some of CFA's competition and comparing their IoT architectures, I'd say these guys have their heads on straight. Kudos to them.