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I can't give a comprehensive answer as to how we hire, but I can offer my personal experience: I was able to finish my last year of part-time law school when I started at 18F. I wa…

18F is hardly the only group within government using OSS to build websites. Also hardly the first (CFPB was at it before 18F existed), I'm sure there are more way before CFPB. Acco…

> The person is assuming ill-intent on behalf of the speaker. This is where these kinds of issues typically go off the rails. With male-gendered language as the default, I doubt ve…

Employees who are happy and feel included are going to produce better work (and a better return on the invested tax dollar) than those who aren't. I'd also expect second-order bene…

I work at 18F, here's my hot take: It's been pretty well established that needlessly (male) gendered language makes people feel excluded. Actually, that's too nice. That kind of la…

https://github.com/18f?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=fec :)

I should have read the [] manual :)

This is really neat! For work, I've found myself from time to time exploring the tech around PDFs. I find this tech strangely fascinating. It's like a shim on top of something old …

I'd love to see an open source project around scanning the GitHub API and subscribing to alerts for your org's repos.

I like https://fugacio.us/ a lot.

A colleague at 18F built https://www.govcode.org/ . It's a handy directory of U.S. federal government open source projects.

I'd love to see blog posts or any write-ups about your experiences founding an ISP.

No office there, but we have at least one remote staffer in Austin.

> Are the dissenting opinions available? Yes. Keep scrolling :)

I put together some quick and dirty scripts for searching the text of the Order: https://github.com/adelevie/open-internet-order .

I'm on a team working on immigration at 18F. Not sure why you assume it's miserable. Anyways, we're using a modern Rails/Postgres/Elasticsearch stack and the work is incredibly rew…

That's a great question. At 18F, we [0] https://github.com/18F/api-standards [1] https://github.com/18F/jekyll_pages_api [2] https://github.com/18F/API-All-the-X and http://18f.git…

Is this comparable to IronWorker?

At 18F (a digital services consultancy within the US federal government), we've drafted API Standards[1]. They're a set of recommendations, rebuttable presumptions, and bright line…

This is a great example of how privacy is not optional, even in "opt-in" systems such as Instagram and FB. That Instagram does not require you to have a Facebook profile, and Faceb…

This reminds me of the wonderfully cool Web 2.0-era startup Dapper.

I sent a pull request with a chapter on diffs[1]. They're important in their own right, but also as a good precursor to the inevitable git/github/version control chapter[2]. [1] ( …

Check out https://permafrast.herokuapp.com . OP built this as well, and it makes it really easy to read cases without signing into Lexis, Westlaw, or, well ... anything. Just one o…

I'm not the author (but I know him and he doesn't have an HN account--I've also contributed a chapter currently awaiting as a PR). PRs are certainly welcome.