thatrailsguy

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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
Very nice. Suggestions: Allow more than one moderator and possibly a chat box?
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
This is a great idea (for persistent url).
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
I think the only source for that data would be through the OMB, but I'm not sure where you could find it.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
Mind if we add this to the site?
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
Thank dvito for compiling. This is a great visualization.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
Is there a good js library for doing this style chart?
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
It's also logarithmic.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
It's not attempting to be deceitful. The problem is the DOD has 8x as many employees as the next largest agency. If spaced without a logarithmic scale, the rest of the agencies are so insignificant it doesn't have any effect at al
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
I talked to dvito, he said he compiled it by hand, so he might incorporate your data into ours.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
But very hard to calculate. If we had a solid source of information on this, I could add it.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dvito is one of the creators.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
They fall under the Department of the Treasury.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
The other guys that did most of the work will weigh in in a couple of hours. I just wrote the hour calculation.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
I'll look into this.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
That's a great idea.
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by thatrailsguy 13y ago
I've got to ask one of the other guys where he got the data. It's available via json in our project here: https://github.com/dvito/govuptime
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Show HN: govuptime.com(govuptime.com)
267 points by thatrailsguy 13y ago|168 comments