mscantland

Ruby / Python folks who want to work on a successful healthcare product with a team that knows what they are doing. Great work environment and management that respects and understands software development.

No remote.

http://www.covermymeds.com.

Parent company: http://www.innova-partners.com/main/developers. We have virtually no turnover and treat people with respect.

Contact mscantland at covermymeds dot com.

Columbus, Ohio, no telecommute

This is hugely valuable for companies like mine that don't have full time accountants but do have an office manager that does bookkeeping.

I wish this company the best of luck, but I'm not sure how much room their is between firms that are outgrowing spreadsheets but don't yet need something a big accounting firm will also use.

So the bulk of this business probably starts with individual accounts and small departments/companies (<50 users). This group is making purchase decisions much like consumers. That group can be sold on the web, and just needs bulk pricing options to feel good about their purchase decision.

My company has about a half-dozen heavy users and we spend more than $300 per month on this junk. A lighter-weight $20/month solution could do very well I think. Here would be my feature list:

* Cross-platform HTML5, not a java plugin or Flash

* Cope with multiple screens and very high screen resolutions for presenters (so viewers on crappy hardware don't suffer)

* Simple interface. Nothing but "share screen" and "invite participant." No chat, surveys, hand raising or other cruft.

You would also want to support corporate pricing as a lot of users are at big cos.

I would argue that his actions are coming up short too. The simple fact of the matter is that Obama is presiding over a country that is allowing its largest businesses to gain immense profits at the cost of its taxpayers. A few examples include Goldman which is arbitraging the markets with funds borrowed at a near-zero Fed discount window and oil companies such as BP whose profits (6.2 billion EBIT in Q1) clearly indicate that the leases on which it is drilling are priced far too low and don't possibly cover the external costs of drilling.

I really hope this works, but due to switching costs, BankSimple will have a very uphill road to climb if they aren't planning to pay very high interest rates or otherwise attract people with some savings.

We'll give Cohpy a look.

Parent company: http://www.innova-partners.com/main/developers. We have virtually no turnover and treat people with respect.

Contact mscantland at covermymeds dot com.

Edit: Columbus, Ohio

Down-mod if you want, but I've been running a 20 employee company for more than six years and have recently moved contract work from PHP to Python due to the unprofessionalism in the Ruby community (I would have preferred Ruby if it had a better scene).

Our internal products are also mostly PHP or Python. Same reason.

The highway 30A coast, which includes Seaside has at least four examples of New Urbanist towns within a 20 mile stretch that is all bike-able. If you're into this kind of thing, it makes a great vacation spot.

If you want activities or restaurant recommendations, check out my wedding website which is still up: http://mattandmeara.com/more/

His vacation to Hawaii, for example was estimated to cost $100MM source: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/12/21/the-cost-of-ob...

I would be for this expenditure if it were likely to involve real communication. Instead, your money will be spent to pander to the proletariat and to oversimplify issues that align with Obama getting re-elected.

I thought it was just being polite.

Do people really think that customers that sign up for $10/mo "to-do" apps are more sophisticated buyers than enterprise customers?

In my experience, many people who complain about the enterprise sales process are failing for their lack of real domain expertise not their distaste for "schmoozing." They are also usually underestimating the intelligence of their customers and unwilling to build relationships.

Disclaimer: My companies do enterprise software. Edit: I've also played golf exactly once in seven years since we started.

Oracle, IBM, HP, Apple, etc are not going out of business in this economy.

Investing billions to give software away (Java, MySQL, NetBeans, etc) in some far-fetched hope that it would cause customers to buy extremely expensive systems hardware didn't work, and everyone seems to know this but Schwartz.

It is usually a mistake to think of HIPAA as some sort of over-arching checklist of requirements such as encryption schemes.

Instead, your goal is to put together a privacy and compliance plan that meets the HIPAA Rule as well as state and local regulations, which sometimes are more specific or strict. I find that the best way to start is to think about how your service uses data, who are your users, and what are they doing with the data (sharing it with others, keeping track of it, submitting claims through your system, etc.). Once you've figured that out, use the flowchart on the HHS website to determine if you are a covered entity under the HIPAA rules: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HIPAAGenInfo/Downloads/CoveredEntityc...

Once you've determined if you are a covered entity, you can narrow the parts of the Rule in which you need to become expert. Depending upon your business, you may determine that you are a healthcare clearinghouse, a provider, a payor, or not a covered entity at all. Each of these entities have specific requirements, and you'll need to work with these requirements as well as fill in details in your privacy plan so that you can act within the law and also be a good data steward for your users. If you are not a covered entity, you still may need to comply with some parts of the Rule because you are acting as a Business Associate (BA) of a covered entity. Or you may not be a business associate-Google Health for example does not consider itself to be a BA.

The HHS website (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/index.htm...) is a good place to start. After that, the HIPAA Rule is formally implemented in 45 CFR Part 160, and Subparts A and E of Part 164:

* http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_07/45cfr160_07.ht...

* http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_07/45cfr164_07.ht...

Privacy rules are just one of the complex parts of healthcare. This is a huge part of the economy, and a large amount of the inefficiency isn't because someone hasn't created a web service to streamline it. Healthcare data aren't like banking transactions-there is a complex vocabulary and making it machine readable has been a huge challenge and isn't anywhere near being solved. There are also many embedded interests (employees with jobs they don't want to lose as well as big companies with profit motives). The upside is that if you do something successful, you will improve the lives of many.

Best of luck with your venture, and get in touch with any questions (mscantland at innova-partners dot com).

The question Bucheit raises is whether copyright protection is bad because censorship is bad? Which isn't fair because the ends are always more important than the means when human rights are at stake.

For example, if Bucheit wanted to show copyright protection in a different light, perhaps he could have shown its virtue by comparing it to keeping secrets about underground railroad stations?

But showing counter-examples is merely proving Godwin's law. Which I think is what Bucheit's analogy showed to begin with.

Copyright seeks to improve customer choices by creating profit incentives. Those who are willing to invest can create, and those who are willing to buy, vote with their wallets. One hand washes the other, and copyright law simply maintains the proper incentives for the system to work.

Censorship in China seeks to maintain a central focus of power by suppressing alternative ideas or organizations, which when shown the light of day might be more popular. There is an inherent conflict of interest which leads to depriving citizens of the ability to control how they are governed.

So whereas copyright preserves profit incentives but leaves the market to decide the winner, censorship in China puts one product on the table (CPC/PLA), and prevents others from being considered.

Feature request: Could you add some meta-data to the notification email with user-agent info? Would be nice to get browser, OS, screen res, js and flash support, and anything you can get about network properties (DSL, dial-up, hostname and location, etc).

Touché.

Client: But your design is in Latin, which I don't speak...

Engineer: Yes, but Twitter is written in Latin...

Client: You're fired.

Client needs as an afterthought are why engineers are considered by most to be professionals, while programmers are considered fodder for outsourcing to low-wage countries.