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The Department of Better Technology is hiring a web developer to help us revolutionize the world of government IT. @cjoh and I started this company after being embedded inside government and seeing first-hand the horrors of the technology that these folks have to use everyday. We worked on a project called RFP-EZ that made it super simple to view and bid on government contracts. It wasn't anything amazing -- just a simple Bootstrap site, but just by making this process easier to understand for web firms who don't specialize in government contracting, we were able to save the federal government an average of 30%.

Once our 6 month term was up, we knew that we had to keep working on the issue. We received a generous investment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to bring this procurement experiment down to the local level of government, and

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Want to grab a copy of your favorite website, using wget in the command line, and saving it in WARC format? Then this is the gist for you. Read on!

First, copy the following lines into a textfile, and edit them as needed. Then paste them into your command line and hit enter:

export USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27"
export DOMAIN_NAME_TO_SAVE="www.example.com"
export SPECIFIC_HOSTNAMES_TO_INCLUDE="example1.com,example2.com,images.example2.com"
export FILES_AND_PATHS_TO_EXCLUDE="/path/to/ignore"
export WARC_NAME="example.com-20130810-panicgrab"

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Since this is on Hacker News...

• No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later).
• I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
• They're all while loops because shut up, you're overthinking a joke.

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SEE BIP 70

See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070 for the latest version of this document; I'll keep this document so the process of discussion/revision isn't lost.

Bitcoin Payment Messages

This document proposes protocol buffer-based formats for a simple payment protocol between a customer's bitcoin client software and a merchant.

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    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
    cursor: default;
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