liyanchang

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by liyanchang 7y ago
See also https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/invisible-women/ "Car crash test dummies are also generally male, based on an average man... and ignores anatomical differences, plus specific individual circum
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by liyanchang 7y ago
Yeah. I’d love to see the academic paper with formalizations that help me understand the true scope of this problem. Your example is a great one that prompts many questions. Is it possible to travel directly to the commit o(1) or will the c
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by liyanchang 7y ago
I’ll openly admit that we don’t have everything figured out. You’re absolutely right that currently, we constrain ourselves on what we migrate to admittedly simple migrations. I think there’s a whole set of problems to be solved in this spa
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by liyanchang 7y ago
I’ll openly admit that we don’t have everything ironed out. In fact my next big project is to tackle derived columns (rename is a column where the transformation is the identity function). It requires a bit more finesse and integration into
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by liyanchang 7y ago
That's correct. The DML changes as part of CI are somewhat new so we haven't ironed it all out yet. Here's the scenario that I think you're laying out: 1. Commit A creates column foo 2. Commit B has DML that reference co
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by liyanchang 7y ago
This is good to know. As someone who didn't do much with databases before, I was frankly worried given how it didn't seem like many others were taking this approach when it made so much sense (we did have the advantage of having a
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by liyanchang 7y ago
I've been really happy with how my current company[0] has been doing migrations and I've seen a couple others do it but it seems like it should be more widespread. Database Schema as Code Instead of writing up and down migrations,
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by liyanchang 8y ago
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Tech-Enabled Health Insurance Company Raises 300M(techcrunch.com)
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US Digital Service achievements over the last two years(medium.com)
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Federal Source Code Policy embraces open source – Final(sourcecode.cio.gov)
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by liyanchang 10y ago
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. I'm personally appreciative of the work that you've done and your continued work, in spite of the many challenges and frustrations. There are many ways to ser
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by liyanchang 10y ago
Thanks. I appreciate that. I think you actually have a keen eye for the issues. Since my time in government, I've become more sympathetic to agency employees, contractors, management - pretty much everyone. The entire environment is re
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by liyanchang 10y ago
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. We are very proud to be working along side the existing agency and contracting staff. You are right that many times, they do know how to fix it and need some help from
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by liyanchang 10y ago
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. I absolutely agree that the interface that most citizens use to government can be better. President Obama agrees with you (from his sxsw remarks): "I could change
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by liyanchang 10y ago
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. We hire for experience, which comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Based on my personal observations, the team is actually the most diverse team I've ever worke
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by liyanchang 10y ago
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. That's right. The US Government is probably not going to win on compensation - salary limits, no stock options, no lunch. However, while it's not a money maki
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by liyanchang 10y ago
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. You make a great point - USDS is just one part of the solution. In fact, in almost all of the USDS projects, we work very closely with agency employees and contractors
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by liyanchang 10y ago
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. So in my admittedly short time in the government [0], I've witnessed how all of these problems are due to good intentions. That's what makes this all really t
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by liyanchang 11y ago
Hi Nick, Agreed! There are lots of places where this tool could be improved! (Disclaimer: I work with people at 18F, Dept. Of Ed, USDS who built this tool, but I wasn't involved and don't have any privileged information and so her
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by liyanchang 11y ago
I am not an accountant - I was looking most of these up so do let me know if I got something wrong and I'll edit as needed. Just trying to compile things in one place. Gross Merchandise Value is how much money flows through your system
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by liyanchang 11y ago
Oh! Thanks for letting me know. Had no idea about that particular team. Will happily give you both credit next time!
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by liyanchang 11y ago
Pensions have a 3 year cliff - but you're only allowed to work for 2 as a schedule A and you don't accrue years as an IC so one can conclude with very high confidence that I will not have a pension :D.
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by liyanchang 11y ago
Hi Andrew. I'm really sorry that you went through that. We know and acknowledge that our hiring process isn't perfect - I can't count the number of conversations where we at USDS share stories about how we personally were in
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by liyanchang 11y ago
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, we have made progress. Yes, there are still quirks. Yes, there is more to do. Come help! As a YC alum, while I find some strong similarities between Digital Service and a small growing startup, there are inde
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by liyanchang 11y ago
It sounds high to me too and I'm was on the team that rebuilt the login system. From what I know about it - we knew how much it cost us[0] and didn't have the support and maintenance contract figured out yet so we reported out 4 t
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by liyanchang 11y ago
I'm not certain about the exact intricacies of the Schedule A hiring authority so I may be corrected by someone later - but my understanding is that this would not be possible to be rehired under the same hiring authority. People have
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by liyanchang 11y ago
Sharp eye! We are indeed indebted to the work that the UK has done! They are a couple years more senior (USDS just had it's 1st birthday this Tuesday; GDS is coming up on 3) and while there is much tailoring for each country's uni
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by liyanchang 11y ago
Yup. I want to give a shout-out to 18F who did a really great job with this. This project is really important for two reasons. 1. It brought analytics to the minds of agency communications and policy folks. Having 18F going around adding Go
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by liyanchang 11y ago
I'm currently at the US Digital Service so figured I'd add some color. There are many subtleties about how government hires that makes this a really interesting question. We are brought in either under Intermittent Consultants or

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