digiphile

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by digiphile 8y ago
It's rather off-putting to have a corrupt, amoral president who uses transparency as a weapon against his political opponents, lies, and doesn't show respect for civil servants.
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by digiphile 8y ago
I was the deputy director of the Sunlight Foundation and have covered the space for a decade. I tracked Trump's record on open government and documented it daily: https://sunlightfoundation.com/tracking-trumps-attacks-o
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by digiphile 8y ago
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by digiphile 8y ago
Do you have specific questions about the law that aren’t addressed here? https://e-pluribusunum.org/2018/12/20/senate-passes-evidence...
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by digiphile 8y ago
It does not. Only CFO Act agencies in the executive branch. But there is a bill to open up PACER.
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by digiphile 13y ago
I can think of any number of blog posts that pack more buzzwords per paragraph than this, but your experience may vary. http://mobile.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/d... To your substa
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by digiphile 13y ago
As I understand it, that's correct: built using Github Enterprise internaly and then published publicly. There was code in public, on the Development Seed account, with respect to coding for the project; anyone can go look at the com
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by digiphile 13y ago
There's a lot to be learned from Recovery.gov, not all negative. In this case, the HHS CTO was referring to a change in the CMS itself, not the website(s) it controls. Getting code updated in the normal .gov contractor/sub-contrac
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by digiphile 13y ago
So am I -- and a lot of other folks who cover tech & public policy!
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by digiphile 13y ago
This was definitely more than a minor mention :)
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by digiphile 13y ago
Thank you for the additional clarity on what you meant! Yes, I wrote this. I'd like to tackle a piece on the exchanges themselves too, at some point, but that would be another feature, not least because of the diversity of state approa
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by digiphile 13y ago
Thank you for sharing the link to github. At the time of submission, the code wasn't available yet there.
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by digiphile 13y ago
Fair point. And ouch, I think. Just so it's clear, I'm not their colleague -- and the contractors in question weren't obligated to praise CMS. I'd hoped that readers would find the perspective of the writer useful, in ad
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by digiphile 13y ago
Is educating the uninsured about the provisions of a law that applied to them "propaganda?"
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by digiphile 13y ago
It may come as no surprise that Mullen cited the GDS team as an inspiration.
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by digiphile 13y ago
I didn't just interview the people who made those decisions. I've talked to dozens of federal and state CIOs over the years, along with many contractors and Web developers. The consensus amongst insiders and industry observers is