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Ask HN: Engineering roles in sales orgs?
For the past few years the company I work for has been trying to recruit engineers to join their sales org. We started by recruiting for a very general engineering position and have recently tried to be more specific in the roles we're looking for, i.e Solution Architect.

I've observed that engineers do not stay in these roles for very long. Some complain that their technical skills are not kept sharp, others that the work that they do day to day is not satisfying. Some feel like their not seen as 'real engineers' by the engineering department -- for many of them it's easier to get an engineering role at another company rather than transfer internally. There is a general view that very little career development is possible.

We’ve cycled through a couple of different managers (all non technical) and have tried to define what career advancement looks like but haven’t hit on something that aligns the engineers belief that they can add the most value by building tools with the metrics of the sales org.

Are there any of companies that have successfully staffed engineering positions in sales (or more generally, non-engineering) orgs?

If your company does this, how is it structured and what processes do you have in place to keep engineers happy?
This site can’t be reached: demo.pinomembers.com unexpectedly closed the connection.
Yes! Although that assumes a third party managing the digital space, which McDonalds might still have to allow.
This is probably it : any two letter combination seems to work.
If someone in the UX space wants to change the world, start a twitch stream and review websites/apps.

I have several scratch-my-eyes-out sites I use every week for fodder and am sure you would never lack for suggestions.
> They don't know what they need or want

Of course they don't always know. That's why you have to do proper user research. You should not just build what they are asking: you should try to figure out why they are asking for a particular solution, try to find patterns among all the users, find the actual source of the problem and then propose a solution that could work for them. This is, of course, an over-simplification. Like I said in another reply, work with a PM that's really good at user research (like scientifically-good).
Amazon's website comes to mind, also
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What's funny is "Like Lorem Ipsum, but for people" is the tagline for randomuser.me, which currently uses stock photos with random user data. Combine these 2 and you got yourself a party.

Run it several billion times, create an Earth-sized social network, then give it content with a meme generation system like Dank Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04510
I assume people finally realise Jack isn't the next Steve Jobs as the media and supporters ( I now assume they are fake supporters?) likes to paint it.

And Travis Kalanick isn't either, I assume most have figure out by now.

And Evan Spiegel.

If you are a Product CEO, or Founder, which tends to be even more Product focus than any succession CEO, and you don't know the basics of your product, then the company has a problem. Even more so when these "products" are gazillion times simpler than everything Apple were doing.
Perhaps because Cadillac is a brand by GM, the manufacturer who also makes Chevy. Cadillac is the luxury brand of GM which would compete with luxury brands.
Journalism is broken because journalism is overrun by highly biased and agenda driven ideologues like kara swisher.

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1086735766997344261

She epitomizes everything wrong with journalism today. It's not about truth, facts or news. It's about ideology.

Hopefully it's a temporary phase and things will get better.
> Collectively they depict a picture of a merciless ladder called “development” on which nations laboriously climb. At the top of the ladder sit countries with the highest per capita GDP, enjoying comfortable privileges, while other lower income countries fight to occupy favorable positions underneath. “Overall, the white world, Europe+North America+Australia/New Zealand+Israel, still makes up the top echelon of nations,” writes SN in a post responding to an IMF data release, “when per capita GDP goes above 40,000USD, only very few non-white nations can enter that area… Japan and a few ethnic Chinese economies, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore managed to achieve that. We should have confidence in ourselves.”

Well, correlation does not imply causation (those countries being "white" isn't necessarily the reason they're rich). But they're not wrong either. At this moment only Europe + European off-shoots and Japan/Hong Kong/Macau/Singapore/South Korea are developed.

The rest of the world is still lagging.

Of course, their racist argument kind of falls flat considering there's also poor "white" countries :)
I'm aware of the expiration date, but haven't been able to understand the embedding or how the pairs of codes may be "hash validated" in some way, which means that this is a one time use for me unless I can either generate them or access the nvram on the system.

Any insights? How did you find the embedding?
Have you seen Kelsey's Hightower demo where he used s3 event as a trigger for Google Cloud Function? You can already use serverless providers that abstract your function from the provider, but of course in that case you're locked to that specific vendor.

Also, no licence stops you from migrating from Lambda at any moment. Other Companies have you to pay enormous licencing fees and lock you for a one year contract or even longer.
That doesn't work on macOS.
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> I am currently reading "Civilian Warrior" by Erik Prince

> For those who want to know or understand beyond the headlines and news articles.

Something like that is probably only valuable to understand how Erik Prince conceives of himself. It's highly likely to be a self-serving portrayal, so I don't think it's a great help for someone who wants to "know or understand beyond the headlines and news articles." It's more like something a historian could use to mine unindented admissions and small facts that only become valuable when carefully combined with other sources.
As much as I agree with GDPR, American companies are not subject to EU laws.
Are the GPIO pins accessible via APIs too?
Don't just watch. Measure. Observers have biases. Figure out what you want to improve, figure out how to tell if you have, test changes against that.
Being easy to use and easy to learn are not necessarily the same thing. GUI's are generally easier to learn, but not necessarily the most productive once a typical user reaches the plateau of the learning curve. A UI designed to minimize hand and eye movements may have a longer learning curve than a GUI. The ideal solution may thus depend on staff turnover rate.
The thing is that the new interface can take seconds to load whereas the old one was instant.

How is this an improvement?
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This is what glue languages do with data. Not what SQL does with data. Why ever would you want it to?
I often find that it's not that they lie, it's that they're often trying to come up with solutions and present those, rather than explaining the root problem.

But yes, watching them work is invaluable. First time I visited one of our clients, I noticed two issues that I had no idea of:

1. All users had dual-monitors, and maximized our application across both. Our application is MDI still. This was a very bad fit for dialogs that were (for historical reasons) had the default position set to center-of-application, rather than center-of-screen. Try reading a dialog split right across two monitors. So when I got back I immediately did a pass to make them all center-of-screen.

2. When doing the main data entry, they didn't look a the window they were entering data into, but rather the source material. Thus any additional controls or dialog would mess up their workflow big-time. That's when it really hit me why the user interface for that window was rather clunky...
Click? Those people don't have time to click, they use the keyboard.
I hear ya... Don't you think you're stretching the meaning of the words "composite" and "several" a little far though?
I would put money on that bet as well, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't speak up about the long-term ramifications of these tariffs still.
Peservation of mass holds as it always did. The forest only absorbs CO2 if the total mass of the trees grows. For a mature foest this is usually not the case.
First app to invest in real esate
Very excited for this.

We have yet to find a funding model where products don’t turn to shit after the companies that raised hundreds of millions of dollars don’t meet their promises made to VC.

MongoDB is a great example of a company shooting itself in the foot because they don’t meet the promises of growth and profitability the market is expecting.

This fund is a great potentiel for dev tools and deep technology that needs only a tiny amount of capital at start and then can remain profitable with SaaS or Consulting.

This model would be somewhat unacceptable for VC because they expect every company they fund to go public and cash out right after with 100% YoY growth , otherwise you’re not a good investment.

Congratulations on this launch !
What's your take on it? Given the secrecy around this type of work, I would assume that a book written by a guy neck-deep in this would provide as much objectivity as a presidential candidate's autobiography.
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The US is a very multicultural nation. That's why it expresses so many distinct cultures.
> If a company tries to automate a good SWE's job to save $100k they are just digging their graves.

Everybody says that about highly skilled work. Humans excel at making skilled jobs obsolete. You don't need a perfect replacement for human skill / creativity. You just need an acceptable basic replacement to which you can attach bells, whistles, and marketing. Nobody is going to hire a rock-star when a session musician will still fill your bar - and you don't hire a session musician if a jukebox satisfies your customers enough to keep buying pints.

> What easily definable parts are there in SWE?

Most software developers are not software engineers. Most software is not a feat of engineering.

> From my point of view, the only reason USA tech industry is so much better than EU tech industry is because US companies realized the success of a company is strongly linked to its product's quality which can only be made by hiring better, more educated and more experienced engineers.

If your argument is that EU developers are dumber and less experienced than their US counterparts, then it's not much of an argument.

> Going back and trying to reduce engineering cost is backwards and no one will be able to survive like that in this competitive industry.

The problem is you're viewing 'software development' as the industry. But that's not how the rest of the world sees or interacts with it. Developers are not interchangeable. Software products are not interchangeable. Within each industry, jobs and processes which can be automated, will be. Most software developers do not work in the games industry. They are not creating new products. They aren't being creative (or at least, not particularly creative). The skills required to implement most software are generally already a few years behind where the technology actually is.
So the SEA functions as a sort of hybrid preferred shares/convertible note?
oh man, that is funny. took me a second to see what is going on there.
Show RN: react-add-to-homescreen – Bringing your PWA app to iOS homescreen
None of these people self-described as entrepreneurs.
Awesome to see innovation from capital providers on the instrument in the wild. As a niche market founder wish option like Earnest existed when we were raising early financing.

Curious - to extent you're willing to share - what dynamics are like for LPs (assuming raising outside). Since median vc fund return is barely 1x, and traditional VCs sometimes blow up otherwise good niche companies by forcing them to go big or bust, targeting 3-5x returns with way faster liquidity for investors a super interesting alternative.

And if the niche market turns out to be a massive market, can still go in with eyes wide open!
Just look at bash.org

Short, terse comments are not new. The systemic factors that cause it are somewhat different for twitter. But it's not a new occurrence.
Hello HN!

Recently I've created my first npm package for React aiding the development of Progressive Web Apps on iOS. I am looking forward to some feedback about the code/usefulness and docs.

Feel free to check it out. Any feedback is more than appreciated!
Effective agile teams practice swarming by minimizing the work in progress "inventory" and focusing all team members on a very small number of stories at a time. You can sell it to management in terms of adopting agile best practices and reducing the cost of delay.

https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/experience-reports/s...
I think it would be far more effective to restrict entire freeways to be HOV rather than add a lane so a few more 4+ person vehicles can carry solo drivers to work. They simply aren't being used efficiently.

I take VTA everyday to work. The stations aren't in great spots. The one I take to work isn't surrounded by high density apartments. It's mostly industrial to one side, and a pretty long walk if don't live in the closest complex to it. As well, if it didn't drop off directly at my work it could easily double my commute time. The density just doesn't support it here.
This still exists?! It's still being updated?!?! So much more content than when I last checked it, which would have been 2004 or so. My faith in the internet is restored.
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> Other apps would also be blocked.

Surely then you're not the only one who would speak up. Also, if an app isn't browsing the web, but is written in Electron (many fall into this category) then it would be unaffected by this policy.

So at the very least your title should be "Microsoft Policies Blocking Electron Apps That Browse the Web". But I understand that doesn't generate as many clicks.
> Republicans have had no power in the CA legislature for many years.

They had, and used as a lever on every other issue, a veto pretty much forever on the budget up until Prop 25 in 2010 dropped the 2/3 supermajority for passing the budget. (Despite the current situation, 2/3 supermajority for either party in either house, much less both houses, of the legislature is historically extremely uncommon.)

They also had and used a similar power with regard to tax realignment since there was (and remains) a similar requirement for tax increases, but that's been a weaker power both since Dems went around them to the voters on tax increases in 2012 and because the Dems have actually had 2/3 supermajorities in the legislature at some times recently, including right now.

But, both of those powers were in full bloom when the funding application to the federal government (which needed budgeted state funds) was made (by, it must be noted, a Republican administration in Sacramento, with whom legislative Republicans had more pull than their hard power in the legislature would suggest, though given the quirkiness of the Schwarzenegger adminstration, probably less than would be typical of a Republican governor.)
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It's worth noting that although at a first glance the face looks extremely realistic, there are some details that don't quite make sense and hint at a randomly-generated face.

This is what I got: https://i.imgur.com/iCfzjkZ.jpg

In no specific order:

- weird hair above the person's right eye, that doesn't match with the overall hairstyle (the patch of short hair) or realistic hair behaviour (straight bit of hair)

- what seems like beard on the chin, with unrealistic lighting

- hair turns into leaves at the bottom

- weird reflex in the left glass

- mismatching shapes for glasses (there's a small bump only on the right glass)
If you could do that in a net energy negative way that would be something.
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+1, a repository with proper indexing would be nice, but also a place where people can request such applications or find contributors.
Johnson himself said the woman was a transphobic, him lying should mean that the woman was in the right and not a transphobic at all. I know about his past records, I only mentioned him to show that the story was real and mainstream, not some journalistic hack (like some of the stuff published in the Daily Mail).
Do volcanos emit CO2?
I'm definitely in favor of this. This is much simpler than the virtualenvs we currently deal with. The only downside I can see is that virtualenvs also manage the python version, so there could potentially be some confusion as to which version to use. To build a virtualenv you need to choose a version as well, but at least once you do, it becomes explicit. Coming back to a project months or years later and then trying to figure out what python the project wants is minor but nevertheless an inconvenience.
ctrl+f "persian"

ctrl+f "iran"

...would seem the solution here would be to open up the caviar market with Iranian imports (caveat: I'm Persian), but the luxury goods sanctions snapped back courtesy of the current administration, so the monopoly is back with the Russians. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-08/what-s-ne...

Shrug.
Gotta get those clicks!

My app doesn't really 'browse the web' honestly and it also shouldn't matter.

If I wanted to build a full Electron browser and ship it in the app store I should be able to.
> I understand the ancestral exception exists, I'm just trying to push back on it being defensible.

Do you think parents shouldn't be able to provide for their children in general?
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This quote (below) reminded me a story...

“There should be a minimum amount of furniture (rules, boxes, dots, and other guide rails for traveling through the typographic space) and a maximum amount of information.”

– Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

A company I know of, had rolled out major UX changes in their bug tracking system. One of the changes was complete removal of all borders on text boxes on bug entry screens. Imagine a page filled with text boxes, with not a single clue of where they are except labels above them. Users literally revolted. The change ended up becoming an option just for that company.
It is worth noting that the GPL2-CDDL license incompatibility is still a theoretical legal issue, and that there are differing learned opinions with respect to the confluence of the CDDL, GPL2, and ZFS. For instance, Eben Moglen, co-author of the GPL3, has indicated that incompatibility is not an issue[0]. Many Sun employees have also disagreed that Sun's intent was to make the CDDL incompatible with the GPL2.

[0] https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-...
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> managing our associations' members with a spreadsheet program just wasn't suitable and we needed something better and easier

ok... what about not reinventing the wheel and using something like LDAP[0] and one of its many, many UIs? How is this different from all the other solutions?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_P...
I haven't laughed so much at an XKCD strip in awhile as I did when I read the second one. Thanks for sharing.
> Again using back-of-the-envelope calculations, he asserted in one of his posts that 1.4 billion newcomers to the industrialized club would “completely change the face of “developed economies”, which currently cover just 800-900 million people.

But can the limited resources of the planet accomodate 1,400 million more people consuming that way?

more than their apparent racism, I am worried about their seeming lack of environmentalism
This blogger SN is a bit delusional, like most of the nationalistic bloggers anywhere. China was merely a cheap labor source in the routine life of input/output process for a company seeking to produce commmodity products. Like many nations before and after, it will be merely a blip in the long history of factories moving to cheaper and cheaper labor.

SN believes that China can somehow end up like South Korea or Taiwan in terms of prosperity. But there are many factors why it cannot. 1.) authoritarian government skimming most of the profits and giving them to inefficient state owned operations. 2.) population is too large and most are uneducated. 3.) China will be old before it becomes rich. 4.) the culture of stealing and copying prevent it from developing a healthy middle class 5.) China have incurred debts too massive, and choose to invest in poor investment. 6.) it had angered its investors, namely japan, South Korea, Taiwan, US, Europe, with many of its belligerent actions 7.) it has angered many other developing countries. In short, most countries in the world do not want China to succeed

And so we have the reality today: China is way too indebted and a wave of defaults has commenced. Factories and firms have moved out of China. Luxury sales have crashed 50%. Home sales in 2019 have crashed 60%. account deficit will be negative for the year. Import and export are all down. And the hike in tariff is yet to come. This is all happening in the background of declining fertility, population contraction in 2030, and middle income trap, where most Chinese earn less than $1000/month.
more details since none were provided:

> Recently a talented group of researchers at Nvidia released the current state of the art generative adversarial network, StyleGAN, over at https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan

> I have decided to dig into my own pockets and raise some public awareness for this technology.

> Faces are most salient to our cognition, so I've decided to put that specific pretrained model up. Their research group have also included pretrained models for cats, cars, and bedrooms in their repository that you can immediately use.

> Each time you refresh the site, the network will generate a new facial image from scratch from a 512 dimensional vector.

(https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeepNetGroup/permalink/80536...)
Almost certainly this is already possible with Facebook's graph and the current state of facial recognition in photos.
No, you don't really need much white space. Use thick lines to show boundaries. They do the job of visually segregating things without wasting screen real-estate.

White-space became a "thing" because of the increased use of touch-screens, such as iPads and smartphones. The space helps avoid fingering mistakes. However, if the vast majority of users are using a keyboard and mouse, it's an anti-feature. People started copying the trend without thinking about and road-testing the practicalities of it. Unlike the Kardashians, science works.
It's a standard directory with an RFC and all[1] and is widely used for a whole bunch of things, not just LetsEncrypt (such as WebDav).

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785
Does laughter hold the key to human consciousness?
I got it wrong, and it’s not overly semantic - words have meanings, and even I felt something was weird once I hit submit.

As the other poster mentioned, it’s bi-modal.