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http://www.consumerfinance.gov/jobs/design-technology-fellow...
For their Design + Technology Fellowship, the deadline is this Friday.
You can complain about how government does things, or you can do something to fix it.
Interesting use of the gif there. I wonder if there will be a migration of these gifs from meme-based humor sites to more "legitimate" blogs and news sites. They are, after all, the visual equivalent to using quotes by famous people.
Sheeeit. We've had animated gifs on TheAtlantic.com HOMEPAGE since like 2011.
But, seriously, someone is going to write a thesis on gifs one day. It is "literally" an innovation in communications. While we currently associate gifs with memes, etc, you can see quite a few very creative ones on ffffound.com, for example. And,as you say, TheAtlantic now uses them.
For folks interested in helping solve the root cause of these sorts of things ... the White House is looking for people to help build a streamlined procurement process: http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows/rfpez ... hopefully making it possible for vendors build government web projects with bids for less than $150k, instead of millions of dollars per web site.
Sorry, but for a hacker streamlining procurement procedures sounds like a huge and extreemly boring timesink. Wouldn't this be something an mba would love anyway?
For folks interested in helping solve the root cause of these sorts of things ... the White House is looking for people to help build a streamlined procurement process: http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows/rfpez ... hopefully making it possible for vendors build government web projects with bids for less than $150k, instead of millions of dollars per web site.
Sorry, but for a hacker streamlining procurement procedures sounds like a huge and extreemly boring timesink. Wouldn't this be something an mba would love anyway?
For folks interested in helping solve the root cause of these sorts of things ... the White House is looking for people to help build a streamlined procurement process: http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows/rfpez ... hopefully making it possible for vendors build government web projects with bids for less than $150k, instead of millions of dollars per web site.
Sorry, but for a hacker streamlining procurement procedures sounds like a huge and extreemly boring timesink. Wouldn't this be something an mba would love anyway?
I'm sure somebody thinks this is an interesting challenge to tackle. The Uruguayan equivalent (AGESIC) did make a pretty nifty website for government procurement:
http://comprasestatales.gub.uy
explanation in Spanish:
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/Other/...
English translation (Google):
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=...
It's a good initiative, but it has the side effect of making my blood pressure rise when I see the awarded projects (all relatively transparent, but still bad contracts)
The software is a "steaming pile of shit"? Of course, it was built by IBM Federal. Building software for U.S. gov't contractors is an awful, awful experience. The end result is the talented leave as soon as they can, because working in a red tape environment with ridiculous Information Assurance (that's gov't speak for their own ludicrous security theater that is their IT security process) policies makes you want to…
I'm sure that IBM Federal is as bad as you suggest. But part of that is due to how government works, which is in turn due to how citizens react to things. Think about it like a government employee. If you do your job perfectly well, nobody notices. Despite the bureaucracy, despite unclear success criteria, despite insane budgeting. Nobody notices. That's just what's expected. When something goes wrong, though, you ge…
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You misread the post. He didn't query data about an Android app. You really think $33 million is a reasonable number for building a web interface to existing data? Please, hire me for your next job. And I'll just leave this here: https://github.com/ireapps/census
> You really think $33 million is a reasonable number for building a web interface to existing data? Apparently, he/she does. I really wish I could understand why, though. Government corruption and waste hurts us all. Why do some people blow it off so easily?
For folks interested in helping solve the root cause of these sorts of things ... the White House is looking for people to help build a streamlined procurement process: http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows/rfpez ... hopefully making it possible for vendors build government web projects with bids for less than $150k, instead of millions of dollars per web site.
Sorry, but for a hacker streamlining procurement procedures sounds like a huge and extreemly boring timesink. Wouldn't this be something an mba would love anyway?
The software is a "steaming pile of shit"? Of course, it was built by IBM Federal. Building software for U.S. gov't contractors is an awful, awful experience. The end result is the talented leave as soon as they can, because working in a red tape environment with ridiculous Information Assurance (that's gov't speak for their own ludicrous security theater that is their IT security process) policies makes you want to…
I'm sure that IBM Federal is as bad as you suggest. But part of that is due to how government works, which is in turn due to how citizens react to things. Think about it like a government employee. If you do your job perfectly well, nobody notices. Despite the bureaucracy, despite unclear success criteria, despite insane budgeting. Nobody notices. That's just what's expected. When something goes wrong, though, you ge…
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For $33 million, I would expect not to see "American FactFinder requires an Internet Browser with Javascript enabled." I would expect them to be able afford a developer who knows how to create links with an "a" tag rather than using Javascript to duplicate a core browser feature. Given that this is a federal website, $33 million should be more than enough money to comply with disability guidelines that forbid such sl…
> $33 million is 500 programmer man-years Where do you live where $66k/yr the total cost of employing a programmer? I don't know what IBM uses for its internal accounting, but based on what several other large tech companies use, $200k/yr is a decent guess (including salary+benefits+overhead). That'd mean 165 man-years, and only a fraction of those 165 would be programmers, since the contract also needs to pay for ma…