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Blue Mesa Health is preventing type 2 diabetes by delivering a behavioral intervention program that helps at-risk individuals add healthier decisions and habits into their every day life. This is on the forefront of the digital therapeutics space with a clinically grounded program that's already showing strong results.
I've had success using the self-service tier from Ably.com, which is <$100 USD/mo. [1]
Their client libraries handled most of the edge-cases that I would have had to worry about using SQS or a message broker on my own. It seems like they're scaling using sensible technologies on the back-end and have very approachable pricing for early-growth projects compared to some of the enterprise focused alternatives.
Proxxi Technology | Embedded Firmware Developer | Vancouver, Canada | ONSITE | Fulltime | https://proxxi.co
Proxxi Technology has several headcount open for individuals with experience writing embedded C. Our new wearable wristband that supports social distancing policies in the workplace with gentle reminders and accurate contact tracing has, well, very high demand from companies you've heard of.
Come make a visible impact on shipping products alongside a growing technical team. Our industrial wearable devices run on ARM System-on-Chips and utilize many interesting technologies - Bluetooth Low Energy, wireless charging, digital signal processing, and more.
Apply via AngelList job posting https://apply.workable.com/proxxi-technology/j/4C5079584B/
Blue Mesa Health | Head of Engineering, Machine Learning Engineer, Full-Stack Javascript Engineer | New York, NY or Vancouver, BC, Canada or REMOTE | Full Time with VISA possibility
Blue Mesa Health is on a mission to deliver world-class digital health solutions that empower individuals to live chronic disease-free. Our flagship product, Transform, is an evidence-based diabetes prevention program delivered via a combination of software, connected hardware, and professional health coaching.
Every day, we are making positive impacts in thousands of people's lives that are visible in both glowing testimonials and clinical health measurements. While we have built meaningful revenue and VC funding over the last three years, we still consider ourselves in the early stages of our growth with aspirations to prevent 100 million cases of chronic disease in the next decade.
We are a global, culturally diverse company with a remote primary team working in results oriented flexible collaboration. Everyone is expected to be able to attend scheduled meetings during US Eastern business hours and there are offices in New York and Vancouver for in-person collaboration.
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The Head of Engineering role is a high-impact opportunity for a demonstrated engineering leader to provide structure and support for a growing engineering organization. You’ll partner with our Product team to plan, design, and develop new features with security and privacy in mind. And be responsible to help your team grow and evolve, by making sure that our engineers have an opportunity to improve professionally, expand intellectually and build resilience in a fast-moving environment.
Learn more and apply: https://jobs.lever.co/bluemesahealth/049382b3-8696-4f9a-a0aa...
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Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientists will have an opportunity to use our three years of rich human-human interaction data to design classification, association, and prediction analysis systems to support participants in our diabetes prevention program and lead them to better health outcomes. Your work will quickly be deployed with measurable real-world outcomes from each iteration.
Learn more and apply: https://jobs.lever.co/bluemesahealth/064ef7d6-00b5-4396-83d6...
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There are also several roles for Full-stack Javascript Engineers, including INTERNS, on our growing team.
See all opportunities at: https://jobs.lever.co/bluemesahealth
Or reach out to me (CTO) directly: evan.willms@bluemesahealth.com
Blue Mesa Health | Software Developer | Vancouver, Canada or Remote | Full Time | REMOTE, http://www.bluemesahealth.com/
Blue Mesa Health is preventing type 2 diabetes by delivering a behavioral intervention program that helps at-risk individuals add healthier decisions and habits into their every day life. This is on the forefront of the digital therapeutics space with a clinically grounded program that's already showing strong results.
Our product team supports the human relationship between program participants and their dedicated health coach. Projects include:
* a multi-platform smartphone app designed to drive behavior change through education, rich communication, and habit trigger push notifications;
* backend data integration and analysis of activity tracker and weight scale data for outcome focused decision making; and
* rapid iteration towards human-computer hybrid communication with both the low hanging fruit of supportive information design and also application of machine learning for real-time chat response.
We're a small dev team using a Javascript everywhere stack (Express.js on Node.js for RESTful backend, Angular2 web app, Ionic2 mobile app) for maximum efficiency and collaboration. The next hires will be a major part of defining our technical culture.
It's my experience that strong developers can pick up almost any language and libraries with some time and support. I'd love to hear from anyone with grounding in web technologies, object-oriented domain modeling, and functional programming who has an interest in fostering effective team communication.
Email Evan.Willms at BlueMesaHealth com
The author does mention the etymology of 'person' in an earlier article, so they appear to be aware of it.
"'Person,' by the way, has a neat etymology. It comes from the Latin persona, referring to a mask worn on stage. Per (through) + sona (sound) — the thing through which the sound (voice) traveled."
http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ux-and-the-civilizing-process/
I put together a quick-and-dirty excel plot of the data: http://imgur.com/uyFkjSB
It's plotting the relative speedup of each router's benchmark vs the slowest benchmark on that dataset. (For example, Beego's performance on the GithubStatic dataset was 12 times faster than the slowest GithubStatic dataset performance)
Fastest overall routers are sorted left to right. Keep in mind that the vertical scale is logarithmic, so implementations on the left are more than 100 times faster than those on the far right.
Ask and ye shall receive.
http://unbounce.com/content-marketing/checklist-12-things-yo...
Doubly interesting since it's both an example of what they do to attract followers and a guide on the steps they take.
You've got your causality in the wrong direction. They have a Twitter base of 25k followers because they provide something useful. Multiple times per day. With original content twice per week, on average, every single week for three years.
People choose to listen when you provide something useful, on a regular basis, in a channel that they're already paying attention to. Once you've gotten their attention, you can convince some of them to join a new channel for which you have better access, control, and tracking.
It's less about getting the listening than the continuous choice to proving something useful.
That's exactly what I've been wondering about enabling two factor authentication for something I use as often as email.
Apparently you can print a series of one-time use verification codes that work any time to sign into your two-factor account. Stick a few on a card in your wallet and don't forget to generate more before you're out!
Both Eric Ries and Steve Blank are actual entrepreneurs who have tried on multiple occasions and have both success and failure in their experience.
Eric Ries founded CatalystRecruiting as an undergrad, worked as an engineer for a few years, and then co-founded and was CTO of IMVU, which had a string of internal failures followed by perseverance and success. His experience there seems to have formed the core of the Lean Startup book.
Straight from Steven Blank's personal bio: "After 21 years in 8 high technology companies, I retired in 1999. I co-founded my last company, E.piphany, in my living room in 1996. My other startups include two semiconductor companies, Zilog and MIPS Computers, a workstation company Convergent Technologies, a consulting stint for a graphics hardware/software spinout Pixar, a supercomputer firm, Ardent, a computer peripheral supplier, SuperMac, a military intelligence systems supplier, ESL and a video game company, Rocket Science Games. Total score: two large craters (Rocket Science and Ardent), one dot.com bubble home run (E.piphany) and several base hits."
Don't write somebody off as an academic just because they've written a book.
The Canadian appeals court has actually created precedent for an an economically 'dependent contractor'. That contractors may run their own business and meet many of the independence criteria, but still be working for a single firm or contract.
Summary of the case at: http://www.djmlaw.ca/downloads/Snapshot_April_2010.pdf
It's referring to the anecdote of Vlasic, a pickle manufacturer, and it's woes of being a supplier to Wal-Mart. Basically, Wal-Mart negotiated hard with Vlasic to provide gallon(!) jars of pickles at at much lower margins than the company was used to.
That nationwide Wal-Mart "every day low price" cannibalized sales of smaller pickle units at other stores and Vlasic saw it's profits on pickles fall 25%.
In unrelated news, Vlasic filed for bankruptcy a few years later.
The entire tale is told in much better narrative by a 2003 Fats Company article: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/47593/print
The charcoal background made me think of Geckoboard (http://www.geckoboard.com/), but that's more of a dashboard metrics visualizer than a task list.
For many customers the issue is not features, it's pain avoidance. If you do just one thing, but better/easier/faster than the established competitor then you can approach customers on that basis. Bonus points if it allows them to save money, especially via employee effort, compared to the "feature rich" competitor.
One awesome book that's helped me with this is "Spin Selling" by Neil Rackham. It's a straightforward method to having productive sales discussions and is based on a quantitative grounding. Their approach is discussion based and a co-exploration, so you're just talking to uncover needs instead of pushing your product. Go check it out.