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by ondrae 6y ago
Some government call centers got mistakenly labeled ‘Spam Likely’. People were denied food stamps and other benefits for missing phone interviews from these numbers. Took a long time to clear up in California.
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by ondrae 6y ago
I love it.
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by ondrae 7y ago
I have a question about the company in the article, HiQ. Their website says they identify flight risks. Does that mean if your company has a contract with them, then they will notify your boss if your LinkedIn looks like you are job hunting
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by ondrae 7y ago
This Twitter account is tweeting the diary out a few sentences at a time. I've been following it for a while, with out knowing much about who Samuel Pepys was. https://twitter.com/samuelpepys
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by ondrae 7y ago
Big Sign always gets a piece.
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by ondrae 7y ago
How can I return all my Nest products in the United States? Any EU-like laws apply here?
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by ondrae 8y ago
I've gotten beer and wine delivered through Amazon from Whole Foods. They had to check my id at my door. I think it varies by state law.
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by ondrae 8y ago
> Would those angry Googlers be against surgically killing Osama? They most likely don't want to work for a company involved in any killing.
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by ondrae 8y ago
The trailer for the Netflix Barack Obama movie "Barry" is showing the description and cover art for the HBO tv show "Barry".
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by ondrae 9y ago
Ouch
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by ondrae 10y ago
We're on AWS GovCloud and our S3 is all good. GovCloud is its own region.
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Load testing Healthcare.gov with a billion users(blog.navapbc.com)
2 points by ondrae 10y ago|1 comments
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by ondrae 10y ago
If they have a felony, then there is a process already for getting it reduced. http://myprop47.org/change-my-record/ If they were arrested recently though, or less than a felony, then I'm not sure.
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by ondrae 10y ago
I'm an engineer at Code for America - https://www.codeforamerica.org/ - a non-profit that does this kind of work with cities, counties, and states. Its still pretty early days for civic technology. I think we'll s
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by ondrae 11y ago
We'll just need our own swarm of drones to protect us from these ones. In Neal Stephenson's [Diamond Age]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age ) each neighborhood has an invisible border of these mur
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by ondrae 11y ago
I was thinking of making exactly this for GitHub. I'm still just doing some research on what would be useful. Mind if I contact you to ask some questions? It'd be real quick.
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by ondrae 11y ago
You all are tripping. You've decided that those women were being patronized? Thats where you start from, your own bias? https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/697237904662204416
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Code for America's year in civic tech(boingboing.net)
3 points by ondrae 11y ago|0 comments
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by ondrae 11y ago
Great! We made a similar service for civic tech projects, pulling from a long list of volunteer groups and non-profits. It only shows the "help wanted" labels. http://www.codeforamerica.org/geeks/civicissues
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Twitter's only black engineer in leadership quits(medium.com)
106 points by ondrae 11y ago|216 comments
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Planet Labs – Open California Beta(planet.com)
2 points by ondrae 11y ago|0 comments
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by ondrae 11y ago
This article is about Seattle trying to slow the rising number of families being gentrified out of their homes and long standing communities. The nostalgia of not taking your kids out of their current school? The nostalgia of not having a n
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by ondrae 11y ago
My favorite open source City application is http://cityofasheville.github.io/simplicity-ui/#/search It's the friendliest version of open data I've seen.
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by ondrae 12y ago
Now locals should fill out the rest of Detroit on the U.S. City Open Data Census. http://us-city.census.okfn.org/ Then you can see how it compares to other cities and have some good conversations with city departments on ho
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Successful tech requires an old fashion skill: Organizing People(npr.org)
3 points by ondrae 12y ago|0 comments
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by ondrae 12y ago
An aside: Some group was pretending to be Code for Hong Kong and was spreading a fake messaging app. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1594667/fake-occu... You can read about a tear down of the
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Govtech – A $23M Venture Fund for civic tech companies(washingtonpost.com)
31 points by ondrae 12y ago|5 comments
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by ondrae 12y ago
Check out http://codeforamerica.org/brigade to see if there is an organized group of volunteers doing exactly that in your city.
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The U.S. Digital Services Playbook(github.com)
67 points by ondrae 12y ago|10 comments
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by ondrae 12y ago
The Playbook http://playbook.cio.gov/ and TechFAR http://playbook.cio.gov/techfar/ Both also available on GitHub

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