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Ask HN: Can Salesforce be a long term career?
I am sick of doing web dev and I feel like my career is stuck. Not learning anything new and not making much money either. But more importantly, not doing anything interesting/fun.

Someone suggested I try salesforce. I looked around a bit - it has tons of certifications (red flag?), doesn't seem hard to learn. Looks like there are enough jobs, as of now.

So my question is - can this be a long term career? at least 8-10 years? Are there interesting projects to work on, or is it similar to doing CRUD web development again?
I'm really enjoying working remotely, and in-fact my company is allowing people to work perm. from home, a hot-desk system where you can book a desk, or if you want to work three or more days a week, you can get a permanent desk.

A couple of friends and I decided it'd be nice to go in once a week to catch up, we all live quite locally (15min cycle for me) so for me it's a nice idea that would work for me.
Outright lies would be, but hollywood accounting is a thing even when the relationship is adversarial.

For example set up two companies, company 1 purchases the ingredients for cheap, does some minor amount of work on them, and sells them to company 2 for way too much money. Company 2 then turns them into soup and makes 0 profit. Cost breakdown on the soup makes it look like the ingredients were really expensive, but actually it's just that company 1 is making the profit instead of company 2, and they happen to have the same owners. (Note: Not legal advice... I don't know if this exact scheme would be legal, but I'm pretty sure schemes like it would be).
Same as you but one maybe two days per year
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> I'm not sure why everyone keeps scoffing at the idea of calling some of these folks Nazis or racists.

Except you call everyone Nazis or racists including Jews, blacks, and others (J. K. Rowling for a recent example) who would be considered disqualified from white ethno-nationalist movements.
I tried it this week. Crispy and a little tart. I think slightly sweeter than Braeburn. I had read about it a few years ago.
They want ammo on everyone so they can try and get them fired to replace them with friends and family.
Pre-pandemic I already had the career goal of a fully remote position. Working remotely for the past year or so has confirmed to me that I prefer working remote. It's going to be disappointing when I have to return to my old office in the coming months, but I plan on keeping my eye open for alternative positions which allow my to forgo the office experience completely.
State actors would have zero issues lifting a fingerprint off a phone, then making a prop for the sensor. Alternatively all they need is a minor tranquilizer and there you go, provided the human asset is available.
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Matt Trout (mst) has long accumulated criticism over his behavior but it seems antisemetism was what finally led to his removal.

Removal: bans from all Perl and Raku irc channels, mailing lists, conferences, etc.
> Why the table? Just place the tablet on your laps and use both hands

Because that seems incredibly awkward and uncomfortable?
Ron Swanson put it best. I don't have coworkers, I have workplace proximity associates. I don't particularly care to be around the people I work with so being at home has probably kept me in this job longer than it would have otherwise. Also they built us a new office building right before they sent us all home and they're taking me out of an office where I can close the door and putting me in an open air cube farm. I always said if I had to work in a cube I would quit. They're looking at us going back in July and that's about the time I hope to have a new job.
I might not necessarily want to go back to the office full time (I always had the possibility for part time remote work anyway), but I'm missing my bike ride commute and some off-record discussion with colleagues that are harder to have over Teams.
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I don't want to go back, I can get my day job done in < 5 hours. I intend to start a couple of fun side businesses and it's easier to do that with no time (and emotional exhaustion) wasted on commuting and sitting at my desk trying to look busy.

Do your tasks in as little time as it takes leaving more room for leisure, this is the first time I'm feeling the benefits of that 'increased productivity per hour'[1] economists talk about.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/labor-productivit...
You've been suckered into the fear mongering, unfortunately.

You already don't have any freaking clue where your credit information is being sold - I promise you it's being sold by your bank (Various "affiliated" 3rd parties pay the bank money for it). It's also being sold by most point of sale companies.

Apple is also using that data for its own ad sales.

Apple is also using your purchasing data to put small dev shops out of business - They intentionally target apps that they see making money through their payment systems, copy them, and then place their own software at the top of the store results. Very convenient for them.

Apple is also tracking when and where you use your apps (don't worry - All in the name of security [fucking /s]).

Your biggest fear shouldn't be having to think for a second before handing over your credit card. Your biggest fear should be that you've literally given the richest company in the world full control of your decision making processes, because they happen to be excellent at marketing themselves.

Google was that company 15-20 years ago, and look at how well that's working out for all the folks who are slowly trying to move away from that ecosystem now that it's become apparent that no benevolent dictatorship ever lasts - regardless of how great it is at the moment.
America is lacking a strong militant labor movement. The kind of movement like we saw in Venezuela, or from environmental activists. Chain yourself to your truck, machine, or desk with 5,000 of your comrades and go on a hunger strike prepared to get beat up and flung around by the local pd for a great a-roll. Coordinate with local press to have camera crews in there 24/7 live streaming everything. Since it's a strike, have everyone get busy on social media engaging in the public discourse and sharing dank memes.
(2014) Londoners give up eldest children in public Wi-Fi security horror show
When people connected to the hotspot, the terms and conditions they were asked to sign up to included a “Herod clause” promising free Wi-Fi but only if “the recipient agreed to assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity”. Six people signed up.
Suicides were down in 2020 in the US. Australia had long and strict lockdowns, so has Vietnam. But they have negative excess deaths in 2020. There's no evidence whatsoever that lockdowns increased deaths, with the possible exception of an increase in fatal traffic accidents due to more speeding.
Ooooo right! I had forgotten about BBM!

It was just at exactly the right point in history: it was better than the rest in some ways, had great FOMO, SMS was super expensive, and I don't think anyone else had real-time messaging on mobile when they first did.

Yes: I think they could have eaten the market until the iPhone, and Apple would have been playing catch-up to BB.
> … profit margins …

… are completely dependent on what expenses are attributed to the revenue by the cost accountant. Is producing WWDC an App Store cost?
They could just trigger the starter from a long distance behind or in front of the line instead.
"if I were to round a 21.4% to 20%"

Right, but you'd round 21.4% to 21%, not to 20%.
Anything can be expressed by a neural network to some arbitrary degree of precision. That's the whole point. The hard part isn't expressing the thing but getting the machine to figure out how to express it correctly on it's own. There's also no way to prove your learning algorithm actually works outside of toy problems like this which is why ML is really only good for data mining rather than steering a car.
What makes a problem 'real' to you? Honest question.
> Lie #1: Remote work, cannot work.

I can see tech bros claiming, noshing on company catered meals, sweating in office gyms and finishing off with a massage is how world is made better place.

> It will be interesting to see how the corporate travel whores, spin this post-COVID in order to keep their Triple Diamond Medallion Platinum status.

Beautiful sentiment. I think there is "military-industrial-complex" like thing between corporate travel, hotels and airlines. So there will be enough "requirements" from clients to have face-to-face meetings, dinners and sports events to attend to. Besides off-sites and retreats are required for executives to keep the morale high of employees who do not get to travel.
I won't type up a chapter about this now but ML is about learning from data. It is concerned with training/validation/test data, the generalization error etc.

Statisticians care more about "modeling", actually estimating parameters that stand in for something real, to check assumptions and hypotheses. The cultures are very different. What makes total sense to one may baffle the other as lunacy (there's more convergence now though, by realizing the complementary nature of the two approaches). The terminology is different too: in stats, they call logistic regression regression, while in ML it would have been called classification (but the name is now stuck). ML also tends to be more Bayesian than frequentist, as opposed to classical stats.

I could write more but having taken ML courses before the big hype times, I can assure you ML doesn't just mean hyped up startup fluff vaporware.

Open up Kevin Murphy's ML book and compare the TOC with a Statistics textbook. There is overlap but it's certainly different in its goals and mentality.

It seems like some bitter bickering from the side of stats people that they didn't manage to hype up their field as much. Yeah they did have many of the same tools at their disposal but didn't use them in this way.
I'm just wondering if there's a one size fits all solution for authz. I spent a few days on a use case :
- users have one or several roles ( these are hierarchical )
- there are some objects in the system ( hierarchical too, eg files and folders )
- there are different features available according to a user's subscription.
I ended up with a 30 lines program which given a set of rules calculates who can access what in less than a millisecond. Does it worth an over-engineered mega system ?
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The title buries the lede. I'm not too interested in another Dvorak, but the hexagonal mobile keyboard looks interesting!
What did all these people have in common? I can't imagine.
>bring your whole self to work

What this really means: make your whole self about work, then bring that self to work.
I am in office but I love it. But I am a founder and I have a great office where it is not crowded and with kids at home, I really cannot get any work done at home.
It's just a webapp for email. There are hundreds of them. There's nothing special about it to hide in the first place.
Why exactly should construction workers clean up, change, and get briefed for free? How are those not work? Do you attend work meetings for free? Why don't construction workers deserve breaks? Do you ever take breaks at work? If so, why do you deserve to be paid for these things when construction workers don't? Be explicit.

The idea that US politicians never cross the public sector unions isn't compatible with the facts. The Taft-Hartley Act is law, and PATCO was destroyed.
It's not because you haven't accepted it.

And as always: governments destroy, private businesses build. A better browsing experience, in this case.
Would not expansion of submarine fleet be a much safer alternative? Or sell some subs to Taiwan, I know US helped brocker sole deal to help them build indigenous boats with MHI help, but this might take too long
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> Your comment sounds like "backpropagation" is some kind of natural phenomenon.

No it's not, read again.
thanks ;-) it seems hard indeed to find the right level of information to put in each entry(fact vs thinking) and not to overstore information
To start developing free software you need to be in already pretty good position financially or in privileged one where someone else pays your bills no matter what you do (some academics are in the position). For me if only free software was the choices I would be first forced to go work for some evil corp to make money and then maybe start my project at some point having much less time and energy.

Making something a lot of people want and charging them for it is an awesome feature of copyright law. I don't want it to go away.
> I'm pretty sure porn has prevented people from getting so sad and desperate that they are driven to abuse real people

Pretty sure the opposite is true.
True in a sense, if the woman in the boat wasn't from Japan.
Perhaps you could collect candid feedback on your writings? Don't ask friends or close colleagues, instead search for those in your field whose opinions you respect (but may not agree with)? More broadly, perhaps find/form a community of individuals with similar interests (organizational leadership and change) and join them? In particular, seek out people with different backgrounds than yourself. I've found book authors on these subjects to be especially open to dialogue, if your opening letter connects your question to their work.
When I worked in the office, I thought I could never work at home because I'd be too distracted. Once I started working at home, I realized that WFH is really good for me and that I'd never want to go back to the office. I suspect that if I do have to go back to the office, I'll find some advantages to being back in the office and enjoy it.
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Is that a Metal Gear Solid[1] reference?

[1]: https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Zanzibar_Land_Disturbance
I'm interested in an adjusted schedule. Like all Fridays WFH or something. I imagine my work will eventually bring us back to the office but I'm definitely interested in working from home in some capacity.
I think it depends on the person and situation. The person may not require recognition and thus can benefit from less obligations. Or the person may be at a point in their career requiring the recognition and accepting they may have more obligations. Even then the situation is not binary. One can always ask for work to be delegated to others. The options will vary by management, staff load and company culture.
You are not wrong. And this pattern shows up everywhere. e.g. do you need a SaaS for "feature flags", since they're just an if statement?

In the case of authz, the argument for separating it as a concern is that many applications can share the same scheme, and you can have specialized tools for provisioning, auditing, etc.
Audience capture is indeed the answer, and is probably why Epic doesn't mind.
Well there is more nuance than that. Firstly the feedback may not seem similar in appearance to western democracies (demonstration / public statement etc), but there are lots of protests (many violent) hence the vast monitoring system. How decisions are changed according to these feedbacks (negative or positive) never made western press. A typical, and more agreeable 'feedback' mechanism is the often trial and test rollout in a designated city/area.

Secondly any event in Beijing will bear significance that's not found in the lower prefecture level cities and everyone understands the stake and unsaid subtext. So in my opinion the government is actually more prudent than you think despite the lack of public feedback.
That’s exactly the kind of paper you get when economists are publishing outside their specialty. Most interesting example was he excluded any data that was counter to his theory and used highly overfit data. “Whether Atkeson (February 2021) has correctly modeled the Covid-19 virus is not at issue.”

They can’t exactly do cost benefit analysis without models to compare, but their cherry picking models to support their assumptions and then happy that their assumptions where validated by their models.
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First, I don’t understand how this is possible. Not technically; I get that. I don’t understand how the industry has accepted W3C standards that have such awful performance that it’s actually faster to render off-site and send video frames. What is the point of HTML? Just use VNC from the web service.

Secondly, it sounds like a security nightmare to expose an uncontrolled single point of failure. But it’s probably better than a consumer endpoint browser, because your OS is secure, while modern consumer operating systems are so full of junk that it’s impossible to defend plaintext, so video it is.

I get it. It’s a brilliant counterintuitive hack. I want it to be stupid, but it’s not.
Yeah I agree that it's weird, unintuitive, and not how the ideal tax code should work. It shouldn't matter whether you or the charity sells the stock. Similarly, it shouldn't matter whether you or your heirs sell your stock, but it does, and that's a whole other can of tax optimization worms.

This is because the cost basis of assets "steps up" on the owner's death to the fair market value at that date - without any capital gains owed. So if you own $10m of non-dividend paying stock, you can comfortably borrow and spend $200k/yr against it, pay no income or capital gains taxes, and when you die your heirs don't owe any capital gains either and can sell off a portion to repay the loan.
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>In the case of a designer wallet or velben goods in general, you're really paying for the status and symbolism in the inflated margins. This may be true of some iPhone owners.

Or indeed, most.

Apple is hardly shy about marketing itself as a purveyor of luxury goods.
As with everything, it depends on your requirements.

Say your goal is to externalize just your authorization policies from your code. A simple implementation might look like an OPA sidecar to your services, with the policy itself being sourced from a separate control plane - this might be something as simple as a centrally-managed S3 bucket.

The service implementation provides the attributes to OPA to allow it to evaluate the authorization policy as part of the query. e.g. which groups is this user in, what document are they accessing, is this a read, write or delete operation.

If you want to externalize sourcing of the attributes as well, that becomes more complicated. Now you need your authorization framework to know that Bob is in "Accounting" or that quarter_end_results.xls is a document of type "Financial Results".

You can either go push or pull for attribute sourcing.

The push model is to have the relevant attribute universe delivered to each of the policy decision points, along with the policy itself. This improves static stability, as you reduce the number of real-time dependencies required for authorization queries but can be a serious data distribution and management problem - particularly if you need to be sure that data isn't going stale in some sidecar process somewhere for some reason.

The pull model is to have an attribute provider that can you can query as necessary; probably backed with an attribute cache for sanity's sake. The problems are basically the opposite set - liveness is guaranteed but static stability is more complicated.

The methods are not equivalent: in particular, the pull model is sufficient to answer simple authorization questions like 'can X do Y to Z?' - we pull the attributes of X, Y and Z and evaluate the authorization policy.

However, if you need to answer questions like 'to which Z can X do Y?', how does that work? For simple cases you may be able to iterate over the universe of Z's asking the prior question; but it generalizes poorly.
That just means that it works for _you_ right _now_.
I'm not questioning the experience of North American music lovers and club-goers like yourself, I'm sure you could get your hands on that stuff.

But take a look at the Wikipedia pages for the tracks and artists you mentioned, and see how high they went in the US vs European charts (to be fair, I was surprised that the Prodigy did so well in the US)

My claim is that the degree to which a genre becomes mainstream in a location is a good reflection of this place being "ground zero" for it.
But there are way more iPhones out there than consoles.
This is not compelling evidence - the contractor had the "upload suspicious files" flag on and it uploaded flagged malware - this is consistent with pretty much every AV I've ever heard of and not evidence of a "Russian plot."
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I'd like to see how this actually plays out in real life, aka. people buying instead of saying they would buy.

Also, for "regular" physical goods it's more or less easy to do the cost break down in a clear way, but what about services and software?
You may not like systemd, but it is the de-facto standard in the mainstream of Linux distributions. So maybe "innovations" isn't quite the correct word - but if you want to see the future of Linux then Fedora is the place to find it.
I would be excited to see someone try that, since it would produce an image that is effectively a parallel viewpoint in one axis and a pinhole camera in the other. I doubt it would be cheaper than Google's street view cameras, though, since standard cameras and lenses are commodity equipment.
The problem with "what about other increases in cause of deaths" is that you have to find a LOT of these reasons to even begin to compete with Covid-19 as a cause. When the increase in deaths is in the hundreds of thousands it is not adequate to point to something that potentially increased the deaths by hundreds or thousands and say that's enough evidence that the Covid numbers are grossly inflated. You need to provide evidence backing your claims for hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Looking at the NIMH link you sent, I'm not sure where you're pulling that data from as 65+ isn't in the chart but some quick maths shows it would be about 9k people, so your assumed 100% increase would only lead to an extra 9k deaths from suicide in that group. The total for all age groups is 48k, so you'd need a 200% increase in all ages to get to that number.

However, if we look at this, based on CDC data: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234
"From 2019 to 2020 ... suicide deaths declined by 5.6%." So you really need some strong evidence to back that suicides went up at all, let alone by 100%. It would also be very difficult to blame false attribution of suicide deaths to Covid-19 without equally strong evidence as there are usually pretty strong clues to the cause of death in suicides.

The riots & associated high levels of aggression between social groups did not lead to a high number of deaths, definitely not enough to have a significant impact on total deaths, unless you have a good source for that claim.

Murder rates seem to be up by about 36.7% across the US, but even then that increase is not enough to cause a significant bump in the numbers. There are normally about 870 deaths per 100,000 in the US due to all causes. Murder is about 5 in 100,000 (2018) so a 36.7% increase in that 5 gives 7, an increase in 2 per 100,000. That's an increase in the death rate of 0.23% due to increased murder. The CDC number I just checked is a 15.9% increase in deaths for 2020.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise...
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm