nacin

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by nacin 7y ago
Degrees are not required. The salary is a hard ceiling, based on federal law pay scales (and is currently $166,500). A lot of people who have come through USDS are motivated that a tour of duty can truly make a difference on the lives of mi
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by nacin 9y ago
USDS hires into a few different agencies. Most of them do require an SF-86, but some others only require public trust (SF-85P).
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by nacin 9y ago
USDS cannot hire permanent residents, but 18F can ( https://18f.gsa.gov/join/ ).
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by nacin 9y ago
18F can hire legal permanent residents. https://18f.gsa.gov/
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by nacin 9y ago
Nope!
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by nacin 9y ago
Yeah, this is hard. I worked from home for five years before joining USDS, and I wish we could support remote work, but we're grafted onto agency projects that are so often based in D.C. that it's just not possible. The "term
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by nacin 9y ago
This sounds incredibly frustrating! Almost all of my USDS projects have involved moving data across agencies, including quite a few with USCIS. It's definitely one of our most common challenges, and USDS is often called into help becau
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by nacin 11y ago
Thank you for your service! There's a ton happening here. From http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2015/04/dod-start-its-own-dig... : "The new team is already working to transfer electronic health records
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by nacin 11y ago
18F uses the same hiring pipeline -- applying through https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser... will get you considered for both!
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by nacin 11y ago
There are a lot of really complex, systemic factors that can help explain why the government has gotten to where it is. I'll just note that on my project, I work with a lot of really awesome contractors every day.
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by nacin 11y ago
Yep. 18F is great, and the teams work together on a lot. Here's more on why it works that way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9802888 .
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by nacin 11y ago
It depends on a few different factors, but your salary can be matched up to $158K. That includes DC's locality adjustment.[1] [1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
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by nacin 11y ago
Conceptually, I think everyone at the U.S. Digital Service would be comfortable with working on a remote team. Many of us have done it, and since we're scattered across agencies, the group itself operates in a fairly distributed fashio
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by nacin 11y ago
18F can hire legal permanent residents.
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by nacin 11y ago
I'd argue it's mostly a carrot. The hiring authority is either one year or two, with option to renew. Most taking a leave of absence commit to six months at the onset. The goal is to get to 500 by the end of next year. [1] [1] ht
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by nacin 11y ago
We're embedded directly in project teams at agencies. I spent five years working remotely and running a major open source project before joining the U.S. Digital Service in January. I love remote work and enjoy extolling its virtues, b
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by nacin 11y ago
Well said, thank you.
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by nacin 12y ago
WordPress works great sharded and/or replicated across databases, servers, even datacenters. This is what WordPress.com, WordPress.org, and pretty much any major WordPress site uses: https://wordpress.org/plugins/h
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by nacin 14y ago
Yes, it is confusing to talk about how blogs get paginated, in general. But if you're curious about WordPress internals: "page" is for archives, like the second page of blog posts categorized as news. "paged" is used when a single post (and
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by nacin 14y ago
Yup, I realized the typo this morning. Hanging my head in shame. In fairness, this message was written at 4am after working for 18 hours straight (and 63 of the previous 84 hours, according to rescuetime).
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by nacin 14y ago
I write good commit messages that are serious, too. Only a few hours earlier: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23083
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by nacin 14y ago
Our commitment to backwards compatibility simply forces us to make smarter, more deliberate decisions. Because we talk so much about our back compat efforts, it is certainly understandable that people might think that is where almost all of
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by nacin 15y ago
Some core developers, including me, as well as the vast majority of core contributors, are not employees of Automattic. To reply to your PS: Something tells me that if WordPress.com uses GoDaddy, they have a bit of leverage there.
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by nacin 15y ago
We plan to be around for a while. :)
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by nacin 15y ago
As far as I know, WordPress has never been named after a living jazzer.
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by nacin 15y ago
Three plugins were compromised through author accounts, which we caught pretty quickly. New versions were quickly pushed out. We're still investigating what happened, and reset passwords in an abundance of caution.