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http://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/individual
[edit] I got to that link from this working site: http://healthbenefitexchange.ny.gov/ which I got to from Healthcare.gov
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Why? "You can do a hell of a lot more damage in the system than out of it." - "Stevo", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2y9-Mxq-0 But seriously, government is what we make of it. We can sit here as sheep and accept the way that we're governed or we can take the leap and try to change it by joining it. I can't promise that it will ever get better if you sign up to help but I can promise that it won't if you don't.
engineers don't set policy
http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law-html
See also: http://codev2.cc
Granted, he was talking about how the private sector can fill in where government doesn't go. Yet even on the inside there are choices to be made and influence to be exerted.
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Why? "You can do a hell of a lot more damage in the system than out of it." - "Stevo", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2y9-Mxq-0 But seriously, government is what we make of it. We can sit here as sheep and accept the way that we're governed or we can take the leap and try to change it by joining it. I can't promise that it will ever get better if you sign up to help but I can promise that it won't if you don't.
engineers don't set policy
I'd imagine that this is a hard sell given the govts track record. They want to recruit us, but they still don't get it. Why would we want to work for the bad guys? Why would we want to be second class citizens to clueless politicians that dictate directives from above instead of working in an industry that respects us and views us as leaders?
I'm not going to get sucked into a debate about which is worse, but I'll give you my perspective on working with federal gov't IT. Yes, policy sucks, thats not going to change any time soon but it is moving towards something halfway decent. There are plenty of skilled, intelligent and motivated IT professionals who you would actually be working for. You don't do the bidding of every politician out there, but you do follow directives from offices higher up such as the white house. Btw, the respect these people proffer to devs is immense because they know you could have worked anywhere else and make more money but you decided to work for a cause they believe in as well.
So please be considerate when you make these sweeping assumptions about the govt.
While I've been initially skeptical of the White House's digital efforts because of my assumption that tech development, especially when it comes to public information, will always be handicapped by bureaucracy and politics...the 18F group has been doing some great work, the kind that is not at all a bad standard for private startups to follow...certainly much better than the kind of things that were rolling out in 2…
The code for federalregister.gov can be found here: https://github.com/usnationalarchives/fr2
(Disclosure: I work for 18F.)
I'll believe this is actually what it claims it is when I see it and its staff persist through a change of political control in the White House. Until then, I'm more than a little skeptical.
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Why? "You can do a hell of a lot more damage in the system than out of it." - "Stevo", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2y9-Mxq-0 But seriously, government is what we make of it. We can sit here as sheep and accept the way that we're governed or we can take the leap and try to change it by joining it. I can't promise that it will ever get better if you sign up to help but I can promise that it won't if you don't.
engineers don't set policy
It would be really great to fix the IRS's digital presence. Make TurboTax obsolete. I hate TurboTax.
Same goes for the DMV, as well as countless other citizen-facing government orgs. Math & administration is really the roots of computing. Edit: I'm rather unclear what is objectionable here.
It would be really great to fix the IRS's digital presence. Make TurboTax obsolete. I hate TurboTax.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/04/auto...