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Degrees are not required. The salary is a hard ceiling, based on federal law pay scales (and is currently $166,500). A lot of people who have come through USDS are motivated that a…

USDS hires into a few different agencies. Most of them do require an SF-86, but some others only require public trust (SF-85P).

USDS cannot hire permanent residents, but 18F can ( https://18f.gsa.gov/join/ ).

18F can hire legal permanent residents. https://18f.gsa.gov/

Nope!

Yeah, this is hard. I worked from home for five years before joining USDS, and I wish we could support remote work, but we're grafted onto agency projects that are so often based i…

This sounds incredibly frustrating! Almost all of my USDS projects have involved moving data across agencies, including quite a few with USCIS. It's definitely one of our most comm…

Thank you for your service! There's a ton happening here. From http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2015/04/dod-start-its-own-dig... : "The new team is already working to transfer electr…

18F uses the same hiring pipeline -- applying through https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser... will get you considered for both!

There are a lot of really complex, systemic factors that can help explain why the government has gotten to where it is. I'll just note that on my project, I work with a lot of real…

Yep. 18F is great, and the teams work together on a lot. Here's more on why it works that way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9802888 .

It depends on a few different factors, but your salary can be matched up to $158K. That includes DC's locality adjustment.[1] [1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leav…

Conceptually, I think everyone at the U.S. Digital Service would be comfortable with working on a remote team. Many of us have done it, and since we're scattered across agencies, t…

18F can hire legal permanent residents.

I'd argue it's mostly a carrot. The hiring authority is either one year or two, with option to renew. Most taking a leave of absence commit to six months at the onset. The goal is …

We're embedded directly in project teams at agencies. I spent five years working remotely and running a major open source project before joining the U.S. Digital Service in January…

Well said, thank you.

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Yes, it is confusing to talk about how blogs get paginated, in general. But if you're curious about WordPress internals: "page" is for archives, like the second page of blog posts …

Yup, I realized the typo this morning. Hanging my head in shame. In fairness, this message was written at 4am after working for 18 hours straight (and 63 of the previous 84 hours, …

I write good commit messages that are serious, too. Only a few hours earlier: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23083

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We plan to be around for a while. :)

As far as I know, WordPress has never been named after a living jazzer.