That one guy who successfully signed up for Obamacare...

Walter L Newton wrote: Tomorrow I start on the 4 page Real Estate Guide which will cover Park County foreclosures, new building permits and home sales for the 3 quarter.

And in nine years you'll be bragging about that instead of a stage adaptation of a book that someone else wrote.
Enjoy the descent.

Brandon wrote:

Walter L Newton wrote: I work from home, I'm on the internet all day.

I said internet forums. Pay attention.

Walter L Newton wrote: Go ahead and call my employer up if you don't believe me. Medical Business Resources in the Tech Center 303-721-0099. Yes... I deal with insurance companies and claims. I've written numerous software interfaces where we receive and transmit data to clients like Kaiser [to name one].

Do you work for that company because you "love writing?" lol

Walter L Newton wrote: Our software works.)

Has it also been in use for more than a week or so?

I'm capable of tasking more than one project at a time.

You don't go live with software as buggy as what you will find on healthcare.gov.

You sorta, kinda make sure it's working ahead of time, you sorta, kinda make sure you have scaled your hardware to process the number of people you expect that will be using the system (haven't we been told for a few years how many millions of people need this affordable insurance).

And to answer your question... yes... when our software goes up and live the client expects it to work, not sometime in the near future but NOW.

I'll admit... the ACA web portal is good enough for government work.

Brandon wrote:

Walter L Newton wrote: Tomorrow I start on the 4 page Real Estate Guide which will cover Park County foreclosures, new building permits and home sales for the 3 quarter.

And in nine years you'll be bragging about that instead of a stage adaptation of a book that someone else wrote.
Enjoy the descent.

Whatever.

You know nothing of the process I went through to develop "Rose Garden" (I'm loving these openings you're giving me) It's actually based on two books and numerous papers written by the famous psychoanalyst Dr. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and from personal interviews with the original book author Joanne Greenberg.

My script uses the original story as a stepping off point. I tell the story of the main character in the book while at the same time giving the audience all new material about the doctor behind the books fictionalization of her (and the patient in the book).

It's sort of like writing solid computer code. You do your research, write the code, extensively test it and then go live.

I'll admit... the ACA web portal is good enough for government work.

I understand that you'd rather talk about that nine-year old play than talk about writing the Flume's real estate guide. Nine years from now you will prefer talking about the Flume's real estate guide to talking about being a greeter at Wal-Mart.

Brandon wrote: I understand that you'd rather talk about that nine-year old play than talk about writing the Flume's real estate guide. Nine years from now you will prefer talking about the Flume's real estate guide to talking about being a greeter at Wal-Mart.

Actually the real estate guide is one of my least favorite assignments that I cover at The Flume.

It is dry and full of charts and graphs. But it does contain information that is valuable to a select audience that reads The Flume.

I really enjoy the stuff I write about Cow Plop Bingo, Llama races and cemetery walks.

It affords me the pleasure of telling a story which suits my skills and personal preferences.

But like the software code I write, my articles are solid and fact based.

I really see software coding as another form of creative writing. But in that case you are creating a "story" that will be painted on a computer monitor, the "story" is interactive and the payoff is the successful completion of what the user needs and wants.

Just the opposite of what the ACA portal has been accomplishing.

I'll admit... the ACA web portal is good enough for government work.

I'm going to take a short walk outside... the weather is wonderful right now.

The ACA portal will still be screwing up when I get back.

It might not even be fixed tomorrow. But some day soon it will be. And then you're going to have to find something else to distract you from contemplating your descent.

Speaking of descent....

This failure points to the fundamental cause of the larger failure, which is the end-to-end process. That is, the front-end static website and the back-end servers (and possibly some dynamic components of the Web pages) were developed by two different contractors. Coordination between them appears to have been nonexistent, or else front-end architect Development Seed never would have given this interview to the Atlantic a few months back, in which they embrace open-source and envision a new world of government agencies sharing code with one another. (It didn’t work out, apparently.) Development Seed now seems to be struggling to distance themselves from the site’s problems, having realized that however good their work was, the site will be judged in its totality, not piecemeal. Back-end developers CGI Federal, who were awarded a much larger contract in 2010 for federal health care tech, have made themselves rather scarce, providing no spokespeople at all to reporters. Their source code isn’t available anywhere, though I would dearly love to take a gander (and so would Reddit). I fear the worst, given that CGI is also being accused of screwing up Vermont’s health care website.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/ ... alked.html

I'll admit... the ACA web portal is good enough for government work.

And now John McAfee is going off on how the new setup is very open to hacking. Just make up a website called www.obamacare.com and people will give you all their info.
Or something similar to HealthCare.Gov like Healthcare.com.

Brandon wrote: It might not even be fixed tomorrow. But some day soon it will be. And then you're going to have to find something else to distract you from contemplating your descent.

What an interesting topic... descent.

I've planned my descent very carefully, and I'm having a ton of fun with it. I'm flexible. I'm certainly not making the same kind of money I was making when I worked at The National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

And every month that goes by, I'm getting older and older and I basically feel I've reached my "used by date."

But you know what gets my adrenalin going? The challenge of learning new trades, exploring new options, working on 3 or 4 projects at the same time, totally unrelated but all designed to make my descent like an entertaining party.

It happens to all of us whether we make it to the finish line happy, fat and rich or happy, fat and poor.

Brandon... your descent is booked and ready. We both will be taking a dirt nap eventually.

I'm very satisfied when I'm staying busy with something, helping the community and keeping out of trouble.

Your crappy-assed personal attacks speaks volumes. I have a certain pride and you only diminish yourself when you post the junk you have posted.

And by the way... the ACA portal is still a shoddy sub-par piece of programming and this administration owns it lock, stock and error message.