bmogilefsky

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by bmogilefsky 2y ago
It was all written at once, during the pre-production phase. We had daily meetings to brainstorm settings, characters, goals, puzzles, etc. The next day Peter Chan would come in with sketches or storyboards. Meanwhile I tinkered on making t
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by bmogilefsky 7y ago
(I work for 18F but don't officially represent it here.) The site is hosted via Federalist ( https://federalist.18f.gov/ ) a SaaS which runs on top of sibling Platform as a Service cloud.gov ( https://cloud.gov
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by bmogilefsky 9y ago
I work at 18F. I have never been drug-tested. It's not a requirement for the job.
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
You listed two IaaS provider and one SaaS provider. cloud.gov is a PaaS provider. There is no FedRAMP PaaS available to agencies, and PaaS is the level of abstraction needed to accelerate delivery of services the government itself provides.
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
Good eyes, will see if we can fix that.
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
We are using AWS GovCloud for our base IaaS layer, but we run a PaaS layer on top based on Cloud Foundry... That's the actual cloud.gov service being provided, the location on AWS GovCloud is just an implementation detail.
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
I said "through a special hiring authority" above but that's inaccurate, sorry for the mix-up... We use the normal GS scale.
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
You're right, everyone is on the hook for their own agency, and with such strict regulations they are very conservative about using each other's stuff, which is effectively delegating decisions and responsibility to others that ma
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
(And yes, sending a resume is how you get started.)
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
We're recruiting actively across many disciplines. 18F employs a huge range of amazing people with diverse histories from both inside and outside of government. Everyone is an impact junkie. Salary is competitive with industry through
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
We can't control the decisions they make, and wouldn't want to... Each agency has their own CIO, and needs to be able to make decisions about stacks based their needs. Compliance requirements for running a service in public are so
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
Google for "cloud to butt extension"
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
I LOL'd... I had the same extension installed, but had to uninstall it when I saw the word constantly as part of my job.
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
Are you positive about that? :) https://books.google.com/books?id=bWI7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=P...
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cl
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by bmogilefsky 10y ago
Check out Mattermost. Sadly missing some enterprise-friendly features like SAML auth as yet.
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by bmogilefsky 11y ago
Yes, that is the scope and intent for now, although there is potential for state agencies to make use of it as well.
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by bmogilefsky 11y ago
Good point... I'll make the GIF a link back to the original YouTube video. EDIT: Which is here, by the way! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6u4WjYaX2Q
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by bmogilefsky 11y ago
[Author of the 18F blog post here] Accessibility and L10N are app-level concerns, not something that cloud.gov is going to be able to help with. However, 18F works on other efforts aimed at helping people do those things better, eg https:&