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The US government's web traffic

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Re: The US government's web traffic

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If you'd like to build things like this Dashboard, and help fix the services Americans depend on, we are hiring. We have an amazing core already, and are growing fast. Read more about the U.S. Digital Service and apply at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/usds Our pitch is pretty simple: Fix Stuff That Matters.

From our Website:

There are several ways you can plug in to the big problems we’re solving. You'll drive vision for a better government, working alongside policymakers, agency leaders, and program teams to build world-class digital services.

Product Managers -- We are looking for product managers who can balance user needs with business requirements and apply technical knowledge to bring world-class digital services to the American people. You'll need to manage complex projects to hit tight deadlines without sacrificing quality. If you feel comfortable reviewing engineering design documents, project plans, and contracts, and you can communicate technical concepts to various audiences up and down the command chain, we're looking for you.

Engineers -- Our engineering leads will drive technical teams to build large-scale, innovative products that serve the American people. You need to be an expert strategizer, fixer, and builder with the engineering chops to roll up your sleeves and push your own code. You'll provide leadership on major technology projects, manage project teams with focus and vision, contribute to product strategy, and support strong teams of engineers.

Designers -- We are looking for designers from an array of disciplines — experts in research, UX, service design, product strategy, visual/UI design, and content strategy. Whatever your flavor, you embrace complexity and revel in drawing simplicity and clarity out of thorny challenges. You are a relentless advocate for the needs of users. You will help lead teams and prototype, test, and iterate on services and products. You will help build the Federal Government’s capacity to deliver services to the American people.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Nothing is "wrong" with it, I'm just surrounded by people who obsess about tech all day and go after whatever is newest and shiniest - if you're not running chromium on your 15" retina macbook pro then you're obviously incompetent. Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better. Not passing judgment on one or the other, just thought it an interesting re…

I'd love to see the stats for HN for browser use.

On February 20, I had a story hit the front page of HN on a brand-new blog that didn't receive traffic from anywhere else.

Here are some screen shots from my analytics.

OS: http://i.imgur.com/oZNOxCK.png

Browser: http://i.imgur.com/84DGWHz.png

Re: The US government's web traffic

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What's wrong with Windows 7? The majority of the world runs Windows and 7 is a fine choice. It's rock solid and there's really no reason to upgrade to 8.

Nothing is "wrong" with it, I'm just surrounded by people who obsess about tech all day and go after whatever is newest and shiniest - if you're not running chromium on your 15" retina macbook pro then you're obviously incompetent. Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better. Not passing judgment on one or the other, just thought it an interesting re…

I work in tech and take the latest shiniest things very seriously. But when it comes to PCs I don't put Windows 8 in that category, for me it's an egregious regression in UX quality and pleasure of use than Win7. Hope springs eternal for windows 10, but for me Win8 is so packed full of annoyances that I would never consider it to be an upgrade from 7.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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It is interesting to see the IE numbers, I suspect it is because many government computers do not have other options. When I was in the military it was all we had. CAC cards also only work properly in IE, on government sites at least, so that will likely also skew the numbers. We of course were running extremely outdated versions too, so that may be part of the higher 8/9 numbers then you might expect.

As someone that has had a CAC, it does work on non-IE browsers (including on non-Windows OSes) for most government sites.

It does but half the crap they have us use runs on flash and only works in ie8...

Re: The US government's web traffic

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If anyone would like to see, use or contribute to the code we used to build the Dashboard, we're on GitHub: https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov And also open-sourced the adapter we use to get the data out of Google Analytics and into a nice clean JSON API for our client-side static app to consume: https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter

JFYI, under operating systems, "Macintosh" should be "OS X". Macs are the hardware, OS X is the operating system that runs on the hardware. :)

Re: The US government's web traffic

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post #63

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Nothing is "wrong" with it, I'm just surrounded by people who obsess about tech all day and go after whatever is newest and shiniest - if you're not running chromium on your 15" retina macbook pro then you're obviously incompetent. Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better. Not passing judgment on one or the other, just thought it an interesting re…

I work in tech and take the latest shiniest things very seriously. But when it comes to PCs I don't put Windows 8 in that category, for me it's an egregious regression in UX quality and pleasure of use than Win7. Hope springs eternal for windows 10, but for me Win8 is so packed full of annoyances that I would never consider it to be an upgrade from 7.

Have to agree here... my company even develops primarily for Win8, so its not as if I'm not used to using it, but I still vastly prefer Windows 7.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Nothing is "wrong" with it, I'm just surrounded by people who obsess about tech all day and go after whatever is newest and shiniest - if you're not running chromium on your 15" retina macbook pro then you're obviously incompetent. Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better. Not passing judgment on one or the other, just thought it an interesting re…

>stability and cost If this were truly the case, they wouldn't be using Windows. It's mostly inertia in large organizations and for the general public.

I'm not a sys admin by any means, so I may be out of the loop here - but is there a viable alternative for management of tens of thousands of systems and users, outside of Active Directory?

As good as *nix/Apple stuff is, is it really feasible to run it at scale across an org, without building custom deployment tools each time?

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Very nice, open-source FTW.

Everything we do at 18F is open source, usually as public domain. Interested in working on this stuff? Come work with us: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/

what's the difference between 18F and USDS? i applied to USDS and never got a reply.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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I love this. Top Pages right now: Where's My Refund? - It's Quick, Easy and Secure. 4,600 "You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?" National Weather Service 1,858 "What's the weather gonna be?" National Weather Service - Forecasts by Region 1,846 "Will it rain today?" Internal Revenue Service 1,672 "Let me spend a few hundred hours figuring out how to pay…

What on earth are you doing that you pay a 40% effective tax rate and spend a few hundred hours doing your tax return?

I was casually lumping in state income tax. That, the Obamacare 3.8% investment surtax, &c., and the situation is reasonably painful for a whole lot of people.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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What on earth are you doing that you pay a 40% effective tax rate and spend a few hundred hours doing your tax return?

Medium volume day trading (hundreds or thousands of transactions per day), where you make $500k per year (which will get you to the 40% marginal tax rate, 31% effective). Have to account for the basis of every trade, all short-term gains/losses, and let's assume they're doing that accounting work themselves (the hundreds of hours is a stretch though), and that they're not plugging a csv file into a program to take ca…

Add the ~8% spent by the employer for Medicare and Social Security, and the 31% effective rate becomes ~39%, doesn't it? For income above $200K, there's also an "Additional Medicare Tax" of 0.9%.
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