From the outset, I learnt programming by craving to build a thing. It started with tic tac toe that I built in vb6 in school, with computer as a player, sound and lighting effects. Then I built a full-disk media player/ image explorer hybrid. Followed by a multilingual word processor with screen reader and brail keyboard input and ...Finally full-stack web apps.
At the core of my learning was always a desire – that I wanted to build this thing, and rest was the details that I figured out from the internet and MSDN CDs (yes, that used to be my primary and definitive source during initial years of learning.)
In my experience, when I'm passionate about building something, I do not need to motivate myself to learn the details.
Edit: Finally I also did post graduation in CS to cover the gaps of CS fundamentals. Degree is also essential for getting a job at reputed companies which usually have it as the first filter to auto-reject candidates.
The penalty requirement is recently waved off. I should update it. But the notice is required to be sent under the section 18B of FLSA.
Also, if the employee does not receive the notice and he misses the open enrollment period, he can sue the employer later at any point.
The server is in fact in USA, if you could have cared to check.
I think it would have been better had it been into India to safe it from NSA snooping. isn't it?
Stuff like this should only be on a .gov website and nobody in their right mind should enter in employee information into a random third party website run out of India by a single dude with a hotmail email address for a whois record. Nice try.
I couldn't disagree more. With your line of argument, start ups shouldn't exist because "a dude from his garage cannot be trusted with business info." Anyway The information being asked can very well be bought/scraped if somebody needs to.
Keep on imposing your line of argument, and of course downvoting. But the truth is I was trying to solve a pain for small businesses most of which have not yet complied by sending the notification. It seems you never tried the website and started with your baseless arguments. Again with this website I have just made electronic delivery of the notification simpler as the same requires that "delivery is tracked". I just take employees email and name (optional) and basic business information necessary to prepare the model notice obtained from DOL website.
Solving somebody pain is a path to a startup, if you have some other definition please feel free to live by that.
I'm sorry that your ~14 day old website didn't make you millions on all the name and email addresses that you could have harvested and sold to the highest bidder. Good luck with your future ventures.
I see where you are coming from. It seems that you are already into selling emails business therefore you see others doing a legitimate thing as "harvesting emails to sell for millions." or maybe you are living in your own bubble and has never gone out to try to build something that non-technical can relate to solving their problem.
Good luck and next time try to conduct yourself with little humility and that would go a long way in helping you achieve something.
Thanks! This is good advice. Btw, if I have a written signed contract in place and if the client does not pay and I'm outside US, is it possible to hand over that case to an entity (like collection agency) in US to take care of?
Edit: Also, is there a standar contract template for a vendor/contractor that lays down these conditions in legit manner. For instance, how much interest you can legitimately charge for each day delayed ETC. Just curious.
Yes, it is possible to entrust a company which will take care of that remotely. I believe most international debt collection agencies work this way. It doesn't matter where you are. Let's say you are a French company and you sell to Japan. You don't know Japanese. You go to a big collection firm, you are served in French, but the particular collector is sitting in Tokyo, knows the law there, the language, and finds the debtor and gets the money for you.
Usually there would be a small set-up fee ($50-100) and commission fee for successfully collected moneyes (8-25%, depends on the debtor's country).
Today everything is done on-line, so you don't have to actually be there.
No standard template, sorry ;) Everything depends on the country/state. Btw that's what lawyers are for :) Over here it's 14% a year by the law itself, you don't have to mention it in your contract/agreement, but also you can agree on more/less. However it cannot be 1000%, because it's against the Civil Code. In some countries you can also collect the "collection costs". In some other you cannot. No simple answer.
I Don't think that he does not want to pay – because his major part of the business depends on that application I created and manage for him.
So my ask is to use a tactic that makes him pay on time without creating bad impression for either of us.
You have the potential leverage of an active relationship, where you do work they need for an important application, and thus have joint and mutual interests to continue on a active and healthy mutually agreeable basis.
Through all of your DAILY actions and communications directly with the person who makes the decision to pay, you are able to be devoted to re-establishing the healthy mutual interest of your client towards you. It's a person-to-person relationship, and it is a person's decision to pay you, and to maintain the relationship with you on acceptable terms. Talk to them on the telephone; email reminders are not enough.
Your repeated and daily, person-to-person statement of expectation and requirement that the client respect the relationship, and the reciprocity of the relationship, and your terms may be successful. Ultimately, if you are not important to them, they are not important to you.
One perspective: let them practice, for a week or two via these daily personal communications, where the daily opportunity to make good on the commitment and recognition of your importance, whether in daily partial payments, or a payment in full is a daily decision on their part that you are in active and personal communication about.
Eventually comes the point of time, after this ragular and daily communication, and the daily decisions on their part, for you to make clear that no work will be done until the invoice is brought up to date, and paid in full, and furthermore, that all future work will be conducted on a different basis that you establish that does not allow any payments to be delayed in any instance, as the client has demonstrated by action, and daily decisions, that you are not important to them. Invite them to commit to your being important to them.
But he still wastes your time. There's nothing wrong in walking away from a business if the terms do not suit you. On time payment is just another clause in the contract, I expect it to be honoured.
1) Most (all?) banks have net banking which is a feature to pay money directly from your bank account (and not via credit card) to online merchants those who integrate it (most of them do).
2) Many banks provide utilities payment (electricity/phone/cable ETC) feature which can be set to autopay.
3) there's a three factor authentication system – username and password to login and look around, transaction password to pay to your registered billers and finally for online shopping (net banking), you are asked to input 3 random numbers from the grid printed at the back of your debit card in addition to login and transaction password.
4) For any decent amount of payment received / paid (I think Rs. 5000 or above), you get an sms briefing the transaction.
5) Auto deduct feature – there's an ECS form you can sign and give it to businesses which can then automatically deduct money monthly from your bank account. Good for auto mortgage payments et al.
Checks have almost disappeared from internet savvy people's lives – I have hardly used them in years.
If you make content accessible for screen readers, you are effectively making content more accessible for search engines as well [0].
high accessibility overlaps heavily with effective white hat SEO. The goal of accessibility is to make web content accessible to as many people as possible, including those who experience that content under technical, physical, or other constraints. It may be useful to think of search engines as users with substantial constraints: they can’t read text in images, can’t interpret JavaScript or applets, and can’t “view” many other kinds of multimedia content. These are the types of problems that accessibility is supposed to solve in the first place.
At the core of my learning was always a desire – that I wanted to build this thing, and rest was the details that I figured out from the internet and MSDN CDs (yes, that used to be my primary and definitive source during initial years of learning.)
In my experience, when I'm passionate about building something, I do not need to motivate myself to learn the details.
Edit: Finally I also did post graduation in CS to cover the gaps of CS fundamentals. Degree is also essential for getting a job at reputed companies which usually have it as the first filter to auto-reject candidates.