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 tour of duty can truly make a…
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 in D.C. that it's just not possible. The…
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 common challenges, and USDS is often called…
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 really awesome contractors every day.
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.
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, the group itself operates in a fairly…
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 to get to 500 by the end of next year.…
WordPress works great sharded and/or replicated across databases, servers, even datacenters. This is what WordPress.com, WordPress.org, and pretty much any major WordPress site uses:…
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 categorized as news. "paged" is used…
Our commitment to backwards compatibility simply forces us to make smarter, more deliberate decisions. Because we talk so much about our back compat efforts, it is certainly understandable that people might think that…
Some core developers, including me, as well as the vast majority of core contributors, are not employees of Automattic. To reply to your PS: Something tells me that if WordPress.com uses GoDaddy, they have a bit of…
We plan to be around for a while. :)
As far as I know, WordPress has never been named after a living jazzer.
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 tour of duty can truly make a…
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 in D.C. that it's just not possible. The…
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 common challenges, and USDS is often called…
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 really awesome contractors every day.
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.
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, the group itself operates in a fairly…
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 to get to 500 by the end of next year.…
WordPress works great sharded and/or replicated across databases, servers, even datacenters. This is what WordPress.com, WordPress.org, and pretty much any major WordPress site uses:…
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 categorized as news. "paged" is used…
Our commitment to backwards compatibility simply forces us to make smarter, more deliberate decisions. Because we talk so much about our back compat efforts, it is certainly understandable that people might think that…
Some core developers, including me, as well as the vast majority of core contributors, are not employees of Automattic. To reply to your PS: Something tells me that if WordPress.com uses GoDaddy, they have a bit of…
We plan to be around for a while. :)
As far as I know, WordPress has never been named after a living jazzer.