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Mode is a modern analytics and BI solution that combines SQL, Python, R and visual analysis to answer questions faster.

Used by Segment, Shopify, Twitch, Lyft, Doordash, NYTimes. Learn more about customers. https://mode.com/customers/

Open roles: - Senior Back-End Engineer - Experience with production engineering, mostly Java, some Go and Python - Senior DevOps Engineer - Terraform, Go, AWS ECS

Ping me if you have questions.

Slight correction: 18F does not require you to be in DC. They are 100% remote-first.

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/15/best-practices-for-distribute...

Open positions: https://join.tts.gsa.gov/

Plastics are petrochemicals, meaning they’re made by combining fossil fuels (usually fracked gas) with chemicals. Petrochemical plants are among the most polluting industries in terms of harmful air and water pollution, and greenhouse gases. In the US, most petrochemical plants are clustered in a low-income, largely Black area of Louisiana known as “Cancer Alley.” So from fracking, to chemical production, to petrochemical manufacturing, people and the environment are harmed—that’s not even counting the end of the plastics lifecycle, like ocean pollution and incineration.

The concern:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plastics-plants-a...

An insider view of industry:

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/chemicals/our-insights/p...

My source: my wife is an environmental lawyer who is very concerned about climate change and works closely on these issues.

Nava is a public benefit corporation working to radically improve how government serves people. Formed as a team of designers and engineers in the effort to fix HealthCare.gov in 2013, Nava now works with Medicare and the Department of Veterans Affairs. With a strong research practice and a depth of experience scaling digital services, Nava helps more than sixty million people access critical government services. We’re thinkers and designers of civic technology.

More about the company: https://www.navapbc.com/services/

Open Roles:

- Infrastructure Engineer, Terraform (NYC, DC, SF, Remote) https://jobs.lever.co/nava/817283f6-9911-4f72-a5ef-fbcdd2c04...

- Software Engineer (NYC, DC, SF, Remote) https://jobs.lever.co/nava/c280510a-e3ed-4b6c-b64f-8ce82801d...

- Software Engineer, Lead (NYC, DC, SF, Remote) https://jobs.lever.co/nava/26679fe1-b47a-4e55-bd62-775b16be3...

More Roles: https://jobs.lever.co/nava/

Ping me if you have questions.

There are lots of issues with bitcoin, but the inherent value one is the least interesting.

Clearly, some people think there is value. That's it.

While mostly true, let’s put this into perspective: A GS-15 in a metro area like New York, DC, and San Francisco, with experience, can get over $170. Throw in performance bonus and matching contributions, and total compensation is $180k+. That does not compare with the high end of the private sector, but that’s reasonable for a lot of people, even at tech companies.

You can estimate here: https://www.federalpay.org/gs/calculator

Also, the sense of duty and serving the public is real. And this is not expressed in a tongue and cheek way... it’s an earnest desire to do meaningful work.

Many people who join USDS, 18F, and PIF from the tech industry are there because they genuinely want to do good work.

If you interested in seeing how the 3x3 initiative* has come along, here are the benchmarks so far: https://github.com/mame/optcarrot#readme

Personally, I am very excited for this release.

* Matz's goal to get Ruby 3 to be 3x faster than Ruby 2.

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@sosodev Thanks for the updated info!

I recently started using Sinatra for side projects and it’s an absolute pleasure. It’s simple and reliable. I think it should get a lot more recognition.

Ruby is changing. I doubt it will ever be as big as the Python world, but I can see it coming back into fashion. I’ve been paying attention to the community and it’s still very active.

If you are interested in this topic, checkout https://code.gov/

“The Federal Source Code Policy (FSCP) called for the establishment of the the Code.gov program office and corresponding technical platform of a website and application programming interface (API). The program office assists agencies with policy, acquisition, and code inventory creation. We are a small but mighty team with five members with expertise and beliefs pertaining to discovering, sharing, and open sourcing the People's code.”

You may also want to read up on 18f.gsa.gov. They publish and share lots of open source code.

I started at 18F and now run https://github.com/cloud-gov

Indeed. I recently re-decided to default to Ruby for side projects. If you don't need to squeeze the very last drop of performance, I can't think of a more comfortable language.

I have it as well. But I recently started to think about it differently.

I think the reason people dislike blockchain so much is because the promise that blockchain will do DoEverythingBetter™ is not very convincing.

All things considered, this industry is pretty small... but it's an industry. It's already been around a decade and could easily last for many more.

In that time, people who work in the blockchain space will bring those ideas, concepts, and ideologies to other industries.

When you think of it that way, looking under the surface for interesting ideas does not seem so far fetched. I think this post did a great job telling a story about the new and fascinating concepts.

Hi, I work on infrastructure in the federal government.

Here's my take: the title is unclear. The federal government has required https for a while.

Learn more here: https://https.cio.gov/

OMB wrote a memo requiring https in 2015: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/me...

If you see the "announcement" linked in the article, you'll notice that it's referencing this page: https://home.dotgov.gov/, which is about the HSTS preload list.

Good talk on the challenges of modifying gravity: https://youtu.be/iu7LDGhSi1A?t=1159

I’ve used TextMate 2 since it’s earliest beta release and always found it fast and reliable. If you want the speed of a native Mac OS X editor, in my opinion, nothing beats TextMate. Congrats to the developers for this major milestone.

Well, all the front-end code is precompiled and published to CDN. So at least from that perspective, there is continuously running server. Node would compile, publish, and cease to exist. The DB would have to be hosted elsewhere and made available via an API.

I don't like to use the term "static" site, even as a provider of a static site hosting service. I think when people say "static" they imagine a small site that does not change.

I prefer to see it as a build environment for your code, data, and assets. The data can change all the time, but it either changes as part of a build process or pulled from an external API.

Here's a good summary of a team choosing this approach for their data-heavy site: https://revenuedata.doi.gov/blog/homepage-revamp-part-two/

Although we are part of the government, we operate as a business unit that must pay for itself to exist. To do this, we have to charge other agencies for our services. My group is "cost-recoverable," meaning, that we are longer losing money and can reinvest back into the product. You will notice our Github activity picked up recently and even more significant changes are coming soon. So, I'd say we are in the best shape we've ever been.

USDS's requirement to be in DC is a tough ask, but necessary given the work they do. At 18F, we travel to DC a couple of times a year, but we are mostly remote. There are significant hubs in SF, NYC, DC, and CHI, but the remote culture is the most successful I've seen.

Yup. I run Federalist at 18F and absolutely love the work, the challenge and colleagues.

We do everything in the open, so feel free to follow our work here: https://github.com/18F/federalist

We also implement the USWDS, which you can follow here: https://github.com/18F/federalist-uswds-jekyll

Let me know if you have any questions!

Impressive. But, the one that loads first is always the real person. The teeth for generated faces often look weird.

I work at 18F and can assure you that if data.gov was brought down, there is a good reason. I don't know the specifics for their team, but there are many factors that would warrant bringing down a site. For example: monthly billing, contract renewals, legal, security and compliance requirements, etc. This is not a side project that you can step away from and assume everything is okay because it's "on the cloud." It doesn't take much imagination to think of why: Let's say the site gets hacked, who would restore it? Would it remain hacked for weeks? months? How about contracts? Do we expect legal dept to just ignore expired contracts?

It doesn't work that way.

The thing about government is that there isn't much wiggle room to improvise on those kinds of issues. You are either following the law or you are not.

Fortunately, the product I lead has not yet been affected, but the possibility of having to bring down sites looms.

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I just saw that Homebrew has a Patreon page. I use brew everyday and want to make sure they stick around. I encourage others to support the project as well:

https://www.patreon.com/homebrew

Juicing removes fiber but a blender does not impact the fiber content.

More info: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/science/q-a-finer-fiber.ht...

It was also revived and discussed here: http://eregon.github.io/rubyspec/2015/07/29/rubyspec-is-rebo...

As a former CfA fellow and civic-tech startup founder, this is a very intriguing comment. Would you like to say more?

I started a company that works extensively with geospatial data and I often interact with cities from across the country (https://angel.co/civic-insight). Learning how to get access to government data was probably one of most challenging parts of starting up, but I've seen a significant evolution in the thinking of governments in the past few years.

I was a Code for America Fellow in 2012 (I am still heavily involved in the space) and back then any talk of publishing datasets, shapefiles or having "APIs" was thought to be an exotic topic reserved for fancy cities with large budgets like San Francisco and Boston. It was something that smaller cities would love to have but don't have the resources to do anything about it.

But that's not the case anymore. Even a lot of the smaller cities now understand that opening up now gives them access to a new ecosystem of tools and technologies that are rapidly developing.

Hence, our startup.

Also, the California Supreme Court ruled that Shapefiles must be made available to the public at almost no cost. See summary of case here: http://www.ocregister.com/taxdollars/county-519947-landbase-...

Oh, and when it comes to SLC. Here ya go:

http://gis.utah.gov/data/sgid-cadastre/parcels/

ftp://ftp.agrc.utah.gov/UtahSGID_Vector/UTM12_NAD83/CADASTRE/UnpackagedData/Parcels_SaltLake/

If you want to learn more about the Civic Tech/Gov Tech space, checkout the Code for America Summit live stream when it continues tomorrow at http://www.codeforamerica.org/summit/

(Shameless plug: I will be presenting about our start-up tomorrow)

It's not just A16Z who's getting into this space. Check out the new fund by Ron Bouganim.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/15...

And obviously, Y-Combinator is now getting into the government space. https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

It's been a slow build, but the industry is huge.

Bay Area, Full Time/Contract

- Ruby on Rails Developer

- Sales and Business Development Lead

http://civicinsight.com/jobs.html

===About Us===

At Civic Insight, we are helping to build a world where all members of society have access to the data necessary to make informed and inclusive decisions about the trajectory of their neighborhoods. Our online platform makes official data about the management of buildings, permitting and construction available to the public in a refreshingly simple yet powerful interface. We have seen how lack of access to this information can be costly to businesses, governments and communities, and we’re working to change that.

We’ve graduated from Code for America’s Incubator, we have investments from the Knight Foundation, and we’re generating consistent revenue. Our platform has garnered praise from PBS News Hour, Time Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.

We’re live in New Orleans and Palo Alto, and we’re confirmed to launch in 11 new cities by the end of the year.

This is where you come in.

===Seeking=== We are seeking a talented Ruby on Rails Developer to help us on-board new customers as well as continue to streamline and improve the platform in response to user and customer needs. We’re looking for a team player who’s eager to get their hands dirty working on a multi-tenant Rails application with lots of GIS data that has the potential to change the way we relate to the built environment in our cities.

===Our current technology stack:===

    Ruby on Rails

    PostGIS database

    Leaflet.js / Mapbox / ESRI / Google Maps

    HighCharts.js

    Grape RESTful API microframework

    Integrating new customers into the platform

    Building out a comprehensive analytics framework

    Enhancing our geospatial searching and filtering capabilities

    Increasing automation and backend management

    Improving scalability and performance

    Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent experience

    Experience with Ruby on Rails

    Strong proficiency writing RSpec tests

    Experience with with MVC Javascript

    Experience with GIS data

    Experience working with a variety of APIs and/or building large data importers

    Good communication skills and a collaborative mentality

    You dabble in data science and have built a data visualization or two

    You have an eye for design; you have the ability and an interest in contributing to design conversations

    You have a passion for making cities work better, and maybe even some experience working on civic technology projects

    Experience working with time-series data

    Experience with building Ruby on Rails Engines

    Experience with multi-tenant Rails / SaaS applications