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Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by monocasa »

unit91 wrote: post #74
monocasa wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All discussions are political. The only question is whether or not the politics at hand affect you. And to quote Chick-fil-a's CEO: "Jesus had a lot of things to say about people who work and live in the business community … Our work should be an act of worship. Our work should be our mission field." So he sees everything they do as political as well.

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.

Was funding a lobbying group to reinstitute the death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda a reflection of their religious principles or their political ones?

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by selimthegrim »

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.

Word of mouth tells me they are underpaying people for Seattle-area CoL

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by forgottenpass »

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 :|

Not... really...

Chik-fil-a is only a useful example in so far as how well the ethical throughlines match things we've seen many times before, the media has taught us to care about, and how much time and effort political interest groups have spent highlighting those to the public. Ethical thinking on this topic will not be engaged, people will take the opinion their political affiliation and chosen memes have predestined them to take, and they'll act like it's serious thinking.

Parent poster said "Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol." Substitute in Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Twitter, and you might be approaching an interesting statement.

Where the ethics gets engaging are the day-to-day business model at any currently big or hot software company. Only a small subset of people have the background to comprehend the issues. And the people saying "let's stop and think about the consequences of this" gets steamrolled by the status quo that has money to make. That's where all the good examples live.

But it's a bit harder to come to terms with when the focus hits close to home. So we have whipping boys like Chik-fil-a. "At least I don't work THERE"

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by max_im »

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 "cashless" restaurants that just add cruft, inefficiency, and customer resentment.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by sheepmullet »

monocasa wrote: post #56
Bizarro wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the grandparent's political stance is to be outraged at anybody he/she disagrees with and has an unhealthy obsession to blurt it out on discussions that aren't political.

All discussions are political. The only question is whether or not the politics at hand affect you. And to quote Chick-fil-a's CEO: "Jesus had a lot of things to say about people who work and live in the business community … Our work should be an act of worship. Our work should be our mission field." So he sees everything they do as political as well.

> All discussions are political.

Nonsense. A certain subset of our society insists on making everything political.

Most of us don’t like it because it ruins otherwise interesting conversations.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by merpnderp »

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…

We had one just open in my town and for the first 3 days, their slowest take was $6k/hour. Regardless of their margins, $600/month would be lost in the noise.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by nearlynameless »

factsaresacred wrote: post #53
stickfigure wrote: post #35

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Political values are important to point out. Companies create these tech blogs as a recruitment vehicle. You should know if the company you're considering applying to is funding bigotry (or "wholesome family values" if that's your angle).

> '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.

There is no world in which pointing out the political beliefs espoused by a corporation should be considered an example of bigotry.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by electricslpnsld »

wuliwong wrote: post #62
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'm in Atlanta and have had a few discussions with people at Chik-fil-A (CFA) about joining on of their teams. I have a good friend that just moved from Intel to CFA working on business analytics. It seems like a really great place to work. And yes, whenever I mention to someone that I might be working on machine learning problems at CFA I always get a puzzled look in return. :)

> machine learning problems at CFA

This is prime deep fried learning pun territory...

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by darpa_escapee »

factsaresacred wrote: post #53
stickfigure wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Political values are important to point out. Companies create these tech blogs as a recruitment vehicle. You should know if the company you're considering applying to is funding bigotry (or "wholesome family values" if that's your angle).

> '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.

Euphemisms like "advocating for his personal beliefs" wouldn't fly, if say, the owner was donating to organizations that fought to make interracial marriage illegal again.

We'd call that what it is: bigotry.

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