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See also https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/invisible-women/ "Car crash test dummies are also generally male, based on an average man... and ignores anatomical differences, plu…

Yeah. I’d love to see the academic paper with formalizations that help me understand the true scope of this problem. Your example is a great one that prompts many questions. Is it …

I’ll openly admit that we don’t have everything figured out. You’re absolutely right that currently, we constrain ourselves on what we migrate to admittedly simple migrations. I th…

I’ll openly admit that we don’t have everything ironed out. In fact my next big project is to tackle derived columns (rename is a column where the transformation is the identity fu…

That's correct. The DML changes as part of CI are somewhat new so we haven't ironed it all out yet. Here's the scenario that I think you're laying out: 1. Commit A creates column f…

This is good to know. As someone who didn't do much with databases before, I was frankly worried given how it didn't seem like many others were taking this approach when it made so…

I've been really happy with how my current company[0] has been doing migrations and I've seen a couple others do it but it seems like it should be more widespread. Database Schema …

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Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. I'm personally appreciative of the work that you've done and your continued work, in spite of the many challenges…

Thanks. I appreciate that. I think you actually have a keen eye for the issues. Since my time in government, I've become more sympathetic to agency employees, contractors, manageme…

Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. We are very proud to be working along side the existing agency and contracting staff. You are right that many tim…

Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. I absolutely agree that the interface that most citizens use to government can be better. President Obama agrees …

Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. We hire for experience, which comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Based on my personal observations, the team…

Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. That's right. The US Government is probably not going to win on compensation - salary limits, no stock options, n…

Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. You make a great point - USDS is just one part of the solution. In fact, in almost all of the USDS projects, we w…

Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions. So in my admittedly short time in the government [0], I've witnessed how all of these problems are due to good in…

Hi Nick, Agreed! There are lots of places where this tool could be improved! (Disclaimer: I work with people at 18F, Dept. Of Ed, USDS who built this tool, but I wasn't involved an…

I am not an accountant - I was looking most of these up so do let me know if I got something wrong and I'll edit as needed. Just trying to compile things in one place. Gross Mercha…

Oh! Thanks for letting me know. Had no idea about that particular team. Will happily give you both credit next time!

Pensions have a 3 year cliff - but you're only allowed to work for 2 as a schedule A and you don't accrue years as an IC so one can conclude with very high confidence that I will n…

Hi Andrew. I'm really sorry that you went through that. We know and acknowledge that our hiring process isn't perfect - I can't count the number of conversations where we at USDS s…