bigsassy

I've found Geocodio to be a good option too, especially if you need to do batch processing: https://www.geocod.io/

You'd want to start with the United States Digital Service (USDS). They're basically a consultancy inside the executive branch to build tech solutions for the various 3 letter agencies. You basically do a "tour of duty" for a year or so (however long you want), tackling one of these solutions. And they go out of their way to hire folks like you, from FAANG and other tech companies, so you work with good people.

https://www.usds.gov/

I had a product to help political campaigns canvas neighborhoods door to door. In the early days there was a "smart walk sheet" feature, which would magically pick the optimal doors to knock given how much time you had (e.g. 2 hours after work).

While I was building out this feature, I'd stay up late in the night manually selecting clusters of houses and setting them for the customer, so the next morning they'd be greeted with what looked like our backend systems auto-magically picking the perfect cluster of houses.

The bonus of doing it manually for a while is that I found a lot of edge cases I would have missed otherwise. The initial release of the finished feature was rock solid thanks to what I learned.

Here's an example:

I agree that all right, title, interest in and to any and all copyrightable material, notes, ... discoveries, and trade secrets conceived, discovered, ... or reduced to practice by me, solely or in collaboration with others, during the period of time I am in the employ of <Company> (including during my off-duty hours), or with the use of Company's equipment, ... or Company Confidential Information, and any copyrights, ... or other intellectual property rights relating to the foregoing ... are the sole property of <Company>

Same here in Maryland (since yesterday).

Location: Rockville, MD, USA (Washington DC metro region)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Javascript (ES6+), Django, Celery, Node, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, AWS, PostGIS, Docker, many more.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpalakovichcarr/

Email: carreric@gmail.com

Co-founder of a funded startup that's winding down due to lack of traction. Looking for a new home in the DC area or remote. I've previously written software for The Washington Post, Truth Initiative (anti-smoking campaign), and ADP (among others). Happy doing full-stack, or working exclusively in the front-end or back-end.

An app I worked on had a similar feature to Snapstreaks, but it was used to help people quit smoking. This bill would have killed this feature that helped many people lead healthier lives.

Yup, this is all I get when I load it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/thbiecwx04on7d5/Screenshot%202018-...

No, it's still being worked on. To quote their latest blog post:

We're working on a large-scale rearchitecture of React Native to make the framework more flexible and integrate better with native infrastructure in hybrid JavaScript/native apps.

http://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/06/14/state...

Just wanted to second this. I'm a current customer and have been pretty happy with the accuracy and quality of their data.

Ditto.

It's back up for me.

First, I should note that political strategy varies depending on the office. A race for a single seat between a republican and a democrat is very different from a non-partisan city council race that has 5 seats, with two incumbents running leaving 3 open seats.

Second, there's a book recently published that focuses on running for smaller offices and aimed at Millennials. You may find it interesting:

https://www.runforsomething.net/book/

"No one (okay, almost) loves russians these days"

Is this actually true? It doesn't feel that way to me (American based out of Washington DC area), but maybe I'm naive. Anybody else agree with this statement?

Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-kVfpruxCA

Christmas.

Truth Initiative | Washington, DC | Full Time, Onsite | Senior Software Developer

We're a Python shop, creating smoking cessation apps for a research institute inside of Truth Initiative, the people behind the truth® anti-smoking campaign. Most of our work provides the technological muscle behind various research grants, with an emphasis on online social networks, text messaging, and mobile applications.

Basically, we write apps that help people quit smoking...FOR SCIENCE!

We're a small time that uses Python, Django, MySQL (sorry), Phonegap/Cordova, Sencha Touch, Heroku, and other neat things to build web and mobile apps. We're in Chinatown directly across from the metro, with a crazy awesome benefits package and competitive salary. I personally think this is one of the best Python jobs here in DC, but you should apply and come talk to us to find out yourself.

You can apply here: https://truthinitiative.applicantpool.com/jobs/51033.html

As a Python developer, I find PyCoder's Weekly very valuable.

http://pycoders.com/

What makes you say that? Honest question.

The same thing happened to my brother. He's been teaching himself software development for a while, and learned the same painful lesson about securing your keys. This was despite the things he did right, like:

1. Used IAM roles (but he didn't lock down it's permissions nearly enough clearly)

2. Used two factor authentication.

http://snaketrials.com/2014/11/11/espionage/

http://snaketrials.com/2014/11/12/espionage-update/

I should note Amazon forgave the money his account owed, given it was his first time making this mistake on their systems. Amazon told him the servers were probably being used to mine bitcoins.

edit - Oh, and on his blog he says it was $2000 over 12 hours. It turned out to be $5000 over 2 hours!

I'm loving this Kickstarter model for major open source software. Just in the Django community we're getting incredibly high quality work between migrations in Django 1.7, Django REST Framework 3.0, and the PostgreSQL extensions Kickstarters.

I've only been paying attention to the Django world with these Kickstarters, but is this catching on in any other sphere of software development (Ruby, Java, .NET)?

CloudAMQP's CEO/CTO from the support chat room:

  Yes, it seems to have been a bug in our instance deletion code,
  that deleted all instances in that region, instead of one.
  This of course is a disaster

Is this related to Bret Victor's stuff? My mind was blown when I saw this video 2 years ago, and I can't help but see similarities here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII&t=10m42s

Two things. One, the title is a little misleading. Trove existed before CmdrTaco joined WaPo. Second, when it was owned by WaPo it had a nifty API. I'm not sure if that's still true (the WaPo API page still exists):

http://apiportal.washingtonpost.com/api/trove

Me too.

Here's a similar, but more in-depth, video on making "Smack my Bitch Up" from The Prodigy. My mind was blown when it shows how "Bulls on Parade" was sampled :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI

What are your plans for DoerHub this year?

This is somewhat relevant. One of the candidates for Governor is Maryland, Heather Mizeur, is running on legalizing cannabis. You can see her discuss it here:

http://www.heathermizeur.com/news/wusa9-plan-to-legalize-mar...

Love django-annoying too. It's always got a line in requirements.txt for my Django projects :)

A mobile app for my wife's political campaign for a city council seat. Handles canvasing (door knocking) and phone banking.