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Ask HN: How technical does a sales rep need to be?
I'm a freelancer doing automation programming. I need to grow my business as I have too many eggs in one basket, so to speak.

I know I'm going to need help to do that.

How technical does someone doing sales for me need to be?

How do I find someone savvy enough?

Thanks.
Singapore, not Bali.
Being jewish isn't a problem in Turkey in general. In Southeast Turkey (Kars, Van etc) it's probably more of a concern if you're Kurdish due to historical tensions with the PKK and Kurds in general.
Which is also why you should use a fake phone number, name, etc for those loyalty cards.

Also a neat trick is to just (XYZ)-867-5309 as someone already signed up with the number from that song and it’s not a real number.
turn of phrase, just means making your own lunch.

edit: im wrong, it's an idiom.
But some matters that seem pseudoscience or para psychological that have been said in his work were actually in general sense.
Amazing I am planning to shift RaspChat on this. Would be nice if same engineering effort can be put into WebSocket. This will make it much more desirable everywhere to build pub/sub systems.
The vast majority of people grossly overestimate their needs, though.

Rental vans/trucks exist.
> No touchpad is as good as a decent external mouse (decent != expensive, mine is $30).

Funny, on both my work and home mac desktops, I use the Magic Touchpad as my primary input device even while sitting at a desk. So I suppose I disagree with this statement.
There's no significance really. It's just a stereotypical lunch bag. I think most people use coolers these days, but back in the day you'd pack your sandwhich, chips, and drink in a brown paper bag to take to work.

Something like this.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41wfQvGOWFL...
Just clicked for me why “healthcare” companies spend so much money on hard discs and data storage.
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It's the cheapest disposable lunch carry you can purchase in the US that is tightly coupled to our cultural concept of frugal food expenses.
Are certifications such as these (not these specific ones, but in general) well-regarded in real life?

There isn't really a good answer to this. That is, a general answer. It really depends on a lot of details about the specific case. I know some people and companies that put a lot of stock in things like RHCE or AWS Solutions Architect certifications. Others don't much care one way or the other.

I will have learned a lot by the time I can pass the exam, so it's worth it in a practical sense I guess. What are your thoughts?

Two thoughts:

1. Treat the certification process as a learning opportunity and don't worry so much about the value of the certification in and of itself. Use the process to force you to dig into knowledge areas that you haven't explored, build new skills, etc.

2. It is my belief that, at worst, having certifications is a neutral thing. That is, very few, if any, employers are going to want you less because you have certifications. And some percentage will value you more if you do, so on balance they probably have some value.

3. Whatever negative connotations go with certifications are, in my experience, mainly rooted in the stereotypical "person who knows nothing about the topic, studies brain dumps obsessively for a few months, passes the certification, and still knows essentially nothing about the topic". So don't be that person. Make it a point to actually learn and understand the material, and find ways to communicate that fact to prospective employers. Eg, don't rely on just a piece of paper, thinking that is sufficient to get (and stay) employed.
> That's ok with me? I wish it were like life insurance where they can ask you anything and then you get that rate locked down for the term.

That's an understandable attitude for a healthy person.

What is the person born with a disability or a gene making cancer, Alzheimers, heart disease, etc. likely supposed to do?

"Your insurance premium is $25k/month. We take checks!"
Buying a new SUV every 3 years and paying taxes on every transaction quickly get's to vastly more than 18k/decade. Remember, you can change both car type and new vs used.

New mid range SUV's can easily end up costing more than 100,000$ over a decade. Even cars can get insane. I just watched a view on a guy who spent 28,000$ owning an Aston Martin for 10 MONTHS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrrFAjxKtj0
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Thanks for the kind feedback, very happy I could help :)
Not defending the alternate mindset per se (my wife and I have a 2006 car, and a 2011 we bought used), but I can understand how it arises from the fixed costs of changing those things.

Some people are truly reckless, but others end up in a situation where they don't forecast perfectly (pay cuts, unanticipated expenses). Downsizing your house is a huge change and a car loan lasts five years. If you're putting 15% towards savings/debt and want to bump that up (or worse: draining your savings by a little bit each month), you can cut back on short-term expenses immediately.
It's not about comparing two individuals, but national budgets. One country shouldn't be able to pollute 10x another country without repercussions.
Seems like all the more reason to hire a couple more employees than trying to save an infinitesimal amount playing games to pretend that they’re contractors
The movie Prometheus was also somewhat famous in linguistics circles for attempting to use either reconstructed PIE directly or potentially a modified proto-Sanskrit for the Engineer.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4008
It's cheaper to make brown paper than white paper. Paper bags aren't bleached white because there's no functional need to do so.
+this. High savings is made from a collection of good habits (or avoided pitfalls), not just one. It's easy to spend 36k over 10 years on lunch+coffee ($10/day). It's easy to spend 36k on a car that you will use for 10 years. Same ballpark, same opportunity for optimization.
Even that thread itself was the "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." thread of the future.

It's an interesting phenomenon that in the age of the internet there are easily accessible public records of how hard it is to tell what is going to be a big deal.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
If you're more efficient, you can produce more with the same emissions budget.
It's an idiom for a cheap lunch made at home. At US stores all the very cheap lunch-sized disposable bags are brown for the most part.
This article [1] was the top google result when I searched "average car ownership length". It reports 79.3 months is the average length that Americans own a vehicle, so a little more than 6 and 1/2 years. Paying more for a vehicle makes sense if you own it longer (or otherwise get more value out of it).

I think the problem is that people both buy $5 coffee/day AND buy large, expensive to own and maintain vehicles AND replace those vehicles too often.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/28/car-owners-are-holding-their...
Take reddit for example. They used to release there code to the open but that is no longer true.
It's really strange that price went up so much. I bought the hardcover new from Amazon for $60 in 2013.
if "angels" are subatomic particles then... lmao
I believe it's not just tax free, right, it's just priced into your salary. They won't give you the employer contribution back as cash if you decline, will they?
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Unless you're moving faster than possible for your particles to return to equilibrium. (either via conduction or via radiation)
After all, heat transfer is a large scale statistical phenomenon.

So, if you're moving fast, despite the low density you're hitting a lot of (anisotropic) fast moving particles. This is a difference between static friction and dynamic collisions.

This is why space ships still need heat shields bigger than expected by just friction alone.

Edit: yes it is related to maximum dynamic pressure, you could call it maximum heat differential.
It would be irresponsible of BBC to simply relay the viewpoint of a hostile state intelligence service without skepticism or framing, or giving the Qataris a chance to have their say.

Sorry, understanding the world requires engagement and judgment. Sometimes there's a lot of evidence pointing one way, but it's been manipulated and the other side is actually correct. When news organizations try to boil down the complexity to simple answers it doesn't go well (see: Iraqi WMDs).

In this case, the Qatari story is pretty ridiculous. They say they talked to terrorists about a ransom, then flew a large sum of cash into Iraq in secret, and then that large sum of cash was taken by some people in black masks, and then they got their hostages back. But it wasn't a hostage payment and terrorists didn't get it, it's being held in an Iraqi bank for development or something. This is a pretty far-fetched story and they probably did pay a large ransom, perhaps $1 billion or perhaps something smaller or larger, but in the same ballpark.
There are surely privacy concerns, but it seems like the evolution of all insurance markets trend towards better risk profiling.

This is a good thing IMO. The point of insurance is to pool risk, not get your high risk subsidized by some sap with low risk. The better insurance companies can profile risk, the more fair the pools.

Then if we want subsidies for high risk individuals, we can work on that separately.
I like how you view this as a luxury and you’re right. But efficiency and near optimization are more virtuous luxuries, to me, than things I frequently think of like sugar or diamonds.

Having an efficient interface with which to work is really important to me. I suppose it’s a luxury to not have to wait 500ms between keystrokes in vim, but I want instantaneous response.

The MacBook touchpad is really useful and using another slows me down both physically as well as mentally since I know there’s a better option.
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17408985
That is of course assuming that you will really buy Starbucks coffee every day and will not stop for 10 years. Which is kind of made up situation.
To take that a step further, who would use a touchpad or a mouse over a keyboard?
It's probably best to start by trying to work with them in good faith. But figure out within 24-48 hours what they intend to cover. If you can't get that specific for lack of information feel them out. If they're being difficult at all, speak with an attorney.
I have read a few stories about some small insurers who were using health data to address ongoing issues and help people get more consistent care.

The catch was for it to work it was a very labor intensive task to have someone work with the customer.

Granted it was more of a story about how things should work than how they do.
Brown bags are the classic container used to pack a lunch for a child attending school in the US. That practice dates back many generations, although I'm sure it's becoming rare in the last few decades.
This isn't for beginners. What beginner's assembly text covers multiple architectures and assembly flavors?

My recommendation for beginner's assembly on linux is to write toy code in C and then view the disassembly in gdb or objdump. You have options to switch to Intel syntax from GAS/AT&T if you want.

I'm generally against using windows for anything, but Visual Studio has decent disassembly debug options where you can step through the native assembly code. You could also look at IL code ( which is very similar to native assembly ) and learn assembly concepts that way. ildasm and ilasm are great tools for that.

Assembly is so low level and can be intimidating to write from scratch in the beginning. It's better for beginners to write code in a higher level language like C and then read the compiler generated assembly code. Once they are comfortable with a disassembly of a "hello world" program, then write more complicated code and understand the disassembly. Then try to edit and compile the disassembled code. Once you are comfortable, then write your own assembly code from scratch.

Edit: Also, if you have time and the will, watch the nand2tetris lectures and try their projects. It'll give you a hands-on general overview of hardware to assembly to VM to OO. How native assembly works with hardware. How VM interacts with native assembly. How you go from OO to VM? It's a very limited but educational overview of code flow from object oriented code all the way to circuitry ( software circuitry ).
Bag lunches can also be purchased at grocery stores and restaurants. So the brown implies that the lunch was purchased at home.

In 2018 a bag lunch from a grocery or restaurant is more likely to be brown than the one packed at home but the usage remains.
> You can use Nim without a garbage collector. I've seen it running on plenty of micro-controllers in this way.

That's interesting.

Nim compiles to C, so it doesn't look like it would require much in the way of porting. I'll take a closer look at that too.
Not the same thing, but your comment made me think of AOSA [0]

[0] http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
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I have one of these. It's fantastic. The trackpoint is even better (in terms of "dpi") than those on the ThinkPads.

I wish that they made a full size version of it - I miss the extra keys.
To be fair the role is made harder because you are in a small firm. The larger the firm the more specialized the role is so it becomes somewhat easier as task switching at least stays in one domain. Right now you have to switch domains, which is normal given the size but not easy.

There are literally way too many details to try and explain here. But IMO, it boils down to this, given the size of firm and team, your job is just complete and total expectation management. Expectations of the business on engineering, expectations of clients on what is doable within budget and time constraints and expectations between the engineers to keep a healthy team.

You can/should split your day and/or split your week into domains and tasks. e.g. do customer followups every morning, team meetings every Tuesday and Friday at 10am or whatever makes sense. This is just about time management and again, setting expectations. Once it has been in place for awhile it will become routine and people will know what to expect and when.

Lastly, you need to stay out of day to day coding at this point as much as possible. Given the size you are too small a firm for you probably not to have some code interaction, but your real role is not to be in code -- or get out of it as quickly as possible after helping a developer. CTO of a company with less than 10 developers is really just a normal team lead with a few extra tasks and a C level title which helps with external customers. I don't mean that as an insult, it just helps frame it some for people. However, what the title adds is client facing responsibilities and business execution responsibilities that wouldn't normally be on a team lead. My personal advice, stay out of product code/client code, but focus on pre-sales demos and mockups etc which can keep you fluent and let you set the tone and pace for the team. Again, if you split your week you should have at least a couple of days a week where you can focus on these tasks.
Apple makes the best looking consumer computer hardware, but a Thinkpad destroys it in every department except the Trackpad. Keyboard (no contest), upgradability, RAM, ruggedness, even price.
There is SSE, which, although unidirectional, can be used in lieu of websockets for a chat application (receive messages/events via SSE, send via another endpoint).

However, as I said before, this is an open source project; if you have an itch, you can scratch it. PRs are open. :)
I would corner the market in white flags.
There is a better way, it's called single payer universal healthcare!
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Considering the next "beater" is likely to be well under $5K, I'd wager they probably do.
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Ah yes - this is in part what inspired me. I love the SSB team and what they’re doing. I’ll check out that link and maybe stop being a lurker and join in, lol.

Thanks for comment
While its called its called Health Insurance, it should be called health care costs.

The US is the only 1st world country without universal healthcare. The thing is most of us already subsidize the healthcare industry. The hospital has to treat someone in an emergency if they take medicare or medicaid. A lot of times people are using the emergency room as their primary care since they can't afford primary care. The hospital increases the rates it charges everyone else to cover this.

You can use data to predict who is going to be more sick and charge them more. However do you want them to die or suffer. I wouldn't. So why not try to fix the big problem instead of all these little ones about data misuse and just cover everyone since you are paying for them anyway.
I think they'd have about the same number of customers -- most people I know who lease their car just want to drive something new and not put much effort in to maintaining it. They don't really car about the long term financial downside.
Fair point, but renting a vehicle most weekends could easily make owning more cost effective.
> Some people obviously have a genuine need for a larger vehicle. Those people usually don't spring for the blingmobiles.

Eh, I've seen people in construction/trades buying "utility blingmobiles". They need a big truck, but what they buy is bigger and nicer than what they really need. It's the equivalent of buying a $10,000 workstation to do web development (you can, surprisingly, run slack on a lesser machine).
Isn't this really only true for men? Child birth was not necessarily fatal in all cases, but it was a major event that had many more risks than we acknowledge nowadays. Even something simple like a plugged duct leading to mastitis could have been a death sentence not all that long ago.
He drives a beater, you can buy another one for around 10k.

If you dont have that kind of money in emergency fund, your playing it risky
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> So, I'm not sure how happy I would be as a user if my package installer bailed out and asked me to choose!

Its definitely not a great UX, but at the end of the day the problem can only be solved at the language level or by package authors choosing new names. For instance in java you can't import 2 major versions of a package. Solving for minor versions having to bail out has been incredibly rare in my experience. I only see it when there's "true" incompatibilities, e.g.

foo: ^1.5.0
bar: foo (<= 1.5)

> Out of curiosity, how do you mark your package as "only once" in cargo? I tried googling, and didn't find an answer, but did find a bug where people couldn't build because they ended up depending on two different versions of C libraries!

I think its the `links = ""` flag. It may only work for linking against C libraries at the moment, but cargo understands it!

> It does make wonder if MVS will solve real pain in practice. :-)

Not by itself, the semantic import versioning is the solution to the major version problem, by giving major versions of package different names. Go packages aren't allowed to blacklist versions, though your top level module is. This just means that package authors are going to have to communicate incompatible versions out of band, and that the go tool may pick logically incompatible versions with no signal to the user beyond (hopefully) broken tests!
This is an awful idea. The high crime rate in Chicago is due to lots of idle men, and handouts just encourage more people not to work. The unemployment rate is 4%, and it has rarely been easier to get a job.
Individual users are definitely no longer their focus, and it makes sense why.

You could see their individual focus for a long time (ex. developing Mailbox and Carousel) and in an ideal (and theoretical) world, it sounds wonderful to have a consumer-SaaS company focused on delivering amazing software to the masses and making money directly from it. But at the end of the day, you can't ignore the real world and the messy side of business.

I (and I'm sure a big chunk of the HN population) would love to support a company like this, but there just aren't enough of us. Drew & team probably found out how difficult getting people to pay for stuff (especially productivity software) really is.

This enterprise shift is necessary for Dropbox's survival.
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> The company, owned by the massive UnitedHealth Group, has collected the medical diagnoses, tests, prescriptions, costs and socioeconomic data of 150 million Americans going back to 1993

I think they just use their point of sales (primary care, etc) to collect data from the client and use it against the client. I know because I used to be in a very similar line of business.

It is easy because clients give you a permanent unique id for payment purposes (ssn), or other unique id (phone numbers) that varies with time (now less with people porting their number). Of course, the point of sale has a list of previous items, even from competitors (medical history) but that has become harder to use, due to laws. Still, most places ask for "emergency contact", which you can use to build a social network. Sick people cluster together. I don't know why, it just happens, and it is a good workaround.

Of course, you need enough data, but it is then a matter of scale (if you have 75% of the market, you have seen everyone in a county at least once) and trade (buy the same data from your competitors).

Personally, due to experience, I prefer to forego insurance and get my healthcare abroad. Better prices than paying deductibles, better services. But I can not recommend that for everyone.

Still this is a dirty business, and I strongly recommend to adopt basic opsec precautions if you get healthcare in the US: never give your ssn, give a phone number that is not used for anything else even better if it is prepaid so not linked to a ssn, never ever give an emergency contact, only list medical conditions that will not cause you legal issues.
All of these seem like the exact ideas every executive thinks sound great then get shut down by literally everyone else... would higher user engagement even increase conversion rates? Probably the opposite. Mobile support? Nope, just alienating mobile users with a worse experience.