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by daguar 2y ago
I broadly think this is correct, and that GDS has drifted significantly.
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by daguar 2y ago
Hi! This is Dave. I am in fact perhaps a top 10 fan of James C. Scott. For some evidence of this, please see: https://x.com/search?q=allafarce%20%22seeing%20like%20a%22&s... This is a really cool idea, and I'll con
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by daguar 3y ago
This is why I truly love support-driven development. While it’s possible to prioritize problems that don’t affect most people (squeaky wheels) it’s a hell of a lot more effective than most of the methods I know to have a very low barrier to
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by daguar 4y ago
GetCalFresh.org. Way easier way to apply for food stamps. Felt good to have left after 6 years going from helping 1 person get help to over a million. Still going strong. Also lots of strangler pattern iterations! That was fun.
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by daguar 4y ago
I'm really sorry you're dealing with this. I'm going to mostly share info about public benefits in case it's helpful, just because that's what I know (and I don't have as much knowledge about some of your other
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by daguar 5y ago
I've wanted this for a while – thanks so much!
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by daguar 6y ago
I love my reMarkable — got the 1.0 once the price dropped due to 2.0. e-Ink is a blessing after so much time on screens, and the rudiments make it quite hackable. So I get a device that pretty much CAN'T try to grab my attention, a cal
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by daguar 6y ago
Is there any existing directory of similar products? Small team, sustainable. I ask because I know one of the big tradeoffs of bootstrapping is no growth "war chest" — but I would love to find and use more of these!
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by daguar 6y ago
Ahh thanks for clarifying!
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by daguar 6y ago
This is neat! That said, I don't think the statistical size makes this a conclusion you can draw: - "a reply rate of 1% (1 in 100 users)" - "a reply rate of 4% (1 in 25 users)" - "a reply rate of 8% (1 in 12 us
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by daguar 6y ago
> But there are also a lot of problems for which I can’t see any concrete benefit to using React. Those are things like blogs, shopping-cart-websites, mostly-CRUD-and-forms-websites. For these things, all of the fancy optimizations are o
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by daguar 6y ago
There are a lot of people who have built this app — but they're concierging! (aka... not an app) The reason is that the work you're describing (which is effectively organizing) doesn't have the unit economics of tech automati
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by daguar 6y ago
I think the motivation behind this is right. In my experience many in Silicon Valley don't understand the mechanics of long-term institutional change. In part, that's simply because — much like entrepreneurship — expertise comes f
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by daguar 6y ago
I'm really sorry to hear that. It's unclear to me if you're in Costa Rica, but heads up if you're in the US your situation likely qualifies you for the new unemployment benefits (Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.)
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by daguar 6y ago
It’s open source, and Australia and Canada have both deployed instances. Would love to see a US (or state run) instance.
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by daguar 7y ago
I can say from experience, many. It's why this kind of visibility is good: it incentivizes better enforcement by Google.
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by daguar 7y ago
The spectrum of (product engineer) <---> ($NEEDS_A_NAME) has been one I've encountered a lot and which I find is underappreciated in hiring and team-building. The way I think about it is that you're giving weights to one of
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by daguar 7y ago
I think I have to quibble with this: > Here, I propose Scott’s Law: never put order in a system before you understand the structure underneath its chaos. James C. Scott wouldn't probably never underwrite re-ordering of systems fro
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by daguar 7y ago
Moralizing the incentives of politicians while framing business leaders' behavior as rational responses to their incentives somewhat betrays a lack of sophistication of thinking here.
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by daguar 7y ago
See the comment above
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by daguar 7y ago
Twitter user complaining with a story that appears to match the Reddit description: https://mobile.twitter.com/aCUBEDtv/status/11127859103350415...
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by daguar 7y ago
Googling the basic contours of this shows the company pretty quickly. There are users on Twitter sharing similar stories.
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by daguar 9y ago
That's a fantastic question. There's a few strategies we've used to build a service design that deals with those things: 1. After the initial application, the next step is a phone interview where they're going to ask man
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by daguar 9y ago
Thanks! It's a little confusing because we have 2 job boards — one for CfA, and one for jobs in gov't (that one is https://jobs.codeforamerica.org/ ) We already have some State of CA jobs on there, but I'll p
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by daguar 9y ago
Great question! Overall I'd say our gov't partners are incredibly supportive. A lot of why these processes are hard are not by intentional design, but rather by _unintentional, non-design_. What do I mean? It's that these sys
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by daguar 9y ago
Oh, odd! Yeah I'll get that fixed. Yes — San Francisco (SOMA) is the location for all of those.
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by daguar 9y ago
Hi! I lead engineering on Code for America's work building services improving the social safety net, so happy to answer any questions. I'd also mention that we're hiring directly for teams at CfA building large-scale services
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by daguar 10y ago
Ping her on Twitter. She might have a structure for accepting a donation to support project outside the direct to-user context.
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by daguar 13y ago
The key question here is how much additional value-add does SimplyInsured provide over the online marketplaces being set up under the Affordable Care Act. A significant part of the broker's value is the high-touch relationship and trus
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by daguar 13y ago
Actually, the reason real reason US health costs are much higher is that the unit-cost is much higher. Check out the unit cost differences here: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/an_insur...

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