No joke, I actually hit this condition in a test suite and ended up stumbling across the October 1582 date in a Ruby library. It wasn't until I searched "October 10 1582" on the Web that I learned the significance.
https://gist.github.com/abachman/f97806e1c0fe8e4e1849e5f8412...
tl;dr - MySQL uses 1000-01-01 as the minimum value for a datetime field. Different Ruby libraries use different methods to represent dates, which can lead to situations that appear to claim that 1000-01-01 != 1000-01-01.
No. Federal employees take an oath to defend the Constitution, not the current executive.
Civil service in the US has been neutral politically and merit based for the last 140 years. It stands directly opposed to the "spoils system" which awarded positions to friends, campaign contributors, family members, etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
"Chatham House Rules" is not a problem that needs solving. I've only seen it used as a courtesy extended by peers to each other out of mutual respect.
"We will have conversations and share information and we agree we can act on the information but would all prefer not to be directly quoted or have the information we shared be shared with others outside the meeting."
It's not legal, it's social.
Break trust with a wiretap (really?) and you'll just find yourself no longer invited to the fun places.
In my top five, too. I have two copies right now, the second is a first edition I found at a free bookstore. I've given one other away, will probably send another with a kid when they move out.
It's the dryness, for me. She evokes the setting so clearly and in so few words, it took me by surprise. Also my first exposure to thoughtful anarchist ideas, which has been fun.
That and Wizard of Earthsea. Which is as spare, poetic, and strange as any YA magic fiction book wishes it could be.
This is 100% accurate to my experience working as a software developer for the US federal government.
Important humanitarian mission (I worked in the asylum and refugee org) filled with true believers, dedicated civil servants with a heart for service, managed by career middle managers.
18F, USDS, interesting smaller contractors, and all the "innovation" orgs direct hiring software devs like me were aimed at supporting the mission, but it felt like they were never going to win over the system of 9 digit contacts to support the status quo.
I’ve been 100% remote for two years with a trip to the office every 5 months or so and this is roughly the same strategy I use to stay connected during those visits.
“What are you working on? What’s next? What do we need most?" 1-on-1, less than 30 minutes, we're a pretty loosely structured org so it’s all self-initiated. Works well, I’m more comfortable with my colleagues and they’re more comfortable with me, we know roughly what each other are working on, and bandwidth is so much higher in person than on video or text chat.