Josh: I did something like this with the USA Patriot Act, which appeared to purposely be written in such a way as to hide what was actually being done by not...
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Taylor Norrish
tay199
Jun 29, 2008 9:52 pm
Barry, Thanks for sounding the alarm. I was away yesterday, and wouldn't you know it... that's when the problem comes. I'm looking into right now. Thanks, ...
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Ralph Yozzo
r_yozzo
Jun 29, 2008 10:18 pm
Just a few points on options for group editing. - Wiki type tools is one option - Another is source code control system such as Subversion or CVS. These are...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 30, 2008 12:01 am
... Most things I have in mind are meant to be done by an automated process, not manually editing bills. There are some things that would be nice to do with...
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btbarry21
Jun 30, 2008 12:30 am
I thought that you were on this mailing list. Glad I could be of assistance. ... you know it... that's when the problem comes. I'm looking into right now....
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
Jun 30, 2008 12:52 am
... GovTrack already.< Oh, good! In annotating the USA Patriot Act, I found that they often made reference to a law by its NAME, which meant I needed to find...
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Joe Germuska
germuska
Jun 30, 2008 3:03 am
... Regarding the idea that it would be nice if Congress provided these ... It seems worthwhile to me that citizens push for a more modern approach to...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 30, 2008 5:04 am
... If you learn anything interesting, I'd love to hear about it. ... I use Perl. If I were to start over again today I'd probably use Python. But, to the...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 30, 2008 5:15 am
... Actually I sympathize with the bill writers, who are often, I believe, from the Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC), separate for House and Senate it...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
Jun 30, 2008 6:47 am
It's really odd that the OLC has no drafting standards. The Dutch and Italians are way ahead on that, and the UN is supporting Akoma Ntosa for new African...
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Pierre Demester
demester
Jul 2, 2008 1:30 pm
any thoughts of using Coldfusion ? Pierre _____ From: govtrack@yahoogroups.com [mailto:govtrack@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh Tauberer Sent: Monday, June...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 2, 2008 1:32 pm
... I actually don't know the first thing about ColdFusion. -- - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info "Yields falsehood when preceded by its...
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Pierre Demester
demester
Jul 2, 2008 2:16 pm
Coldfusion is similar to ASP (Microsoft) and PHP (open source)... in that it is a scripting language. PHP has Object Orientation (OO) - whereas Coldfusion (CF)...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Jul 2, 2008 2:21 pm
Please, please, not cold fusion. -1 (or as many as I can muster). ... -- -- Derek Willis dwillis@... http://www.thescoop.org/docs/...
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Pierre Demester
demester
Jul 2, 2008 2:43 pm
there ya go. I knew there would be at least one. Pierre _____ From: govtrack@yahoogroups.com [mailto:govtrack@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Derek Willis Sent:...
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Mark Fredrickson
markmfredric...
Jul 2, 2008 2:44 pm
I call "bikeshed"; on this discussion[1]. Code is gold: if you can write something in Coldfusion, do so. If you can write it in something else, do so. Best of...
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Neil Rest
neilrest
Jul 2, 2008 3:51 pm
Code has to be maintained. When a development project goes live, less than half its full life-cycle cost has been spent; the rest is modification. Personally,...
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Pierre Demester
demester
Jul 2, 2008 3:51 pm
i agree Pierre _____ From: govtrack@yahoogroups.com [mailto:govtrack@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Fredrickson Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:27 AM To:...
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Dale Moore
daleemoore
Jul 2, 2008 3:58 pm
Is c#, .NET or MONO an option?...
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Jeremy Dunck
ralinon
Jul 2, 2008 4:00 pm
... I use Perl. If I were to start over again today I'd probably use Python. But, to the extent anyone wants to contribute, I would prefer Perl so they could...
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Pierre Demester
demester
Jul 2, 2008 10:07 pm
I'm a little confused - Coldfusion (proprietary add-on to a graphic package) ??? Are you saying Coldfusion is a graphic application ? ... As for PHP - it's not...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 2, 2008 10:10 pm
... Okay, okay, let's not have this list turn into a discussion about programming languages. The priority should be finding a *civic project* to work on, not...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
Jul 3, 2008 3:58 am
Josh: I was looking through your "active legislation" page, to try an find a short interesting bill I could practice my inchoate perl skills on, and found it...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 3, 2008 12:29 pm
... No... ... No, and those scripts aren't even posted publicly (yet). They're probably virtually incoherent. ... I have a thing that marks up references to...
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Gabe Hamilton
potluckgabe
Jul 3, 2008 4:26 pm
Hi Josh, I have some availability to work on GovTrack over the next few months. My interest is in state legislation, however I'm happy to start with some of ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 3, 2008 10:29 pm
... Hey, Gabe. Glad to hear you could help out. Don't flake out on me now. :) ... I think when the time comes we'll deal with it then. (Any lurkers that have...
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dbsearch04
Jul 4, 2008 6:57 pm
Hello Josh: I am a programmer who recently started [again] looking at the sematic web stuff. An iteresting site I came across is DBPedia. They have indexed the...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
Jul 4, 2008 10:03 pm
Roger: The DBPedia has a lot of general info, but I don't see much relating to Law, per se, which is what we'd need. It seems that both DBPedia and Yago depend...
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dbsearch04
Jul 5, 2008 3:17 pm
Thanks Harvey: DBPedia has this example query [in English]: "Mayors of US cities higher than 1000m" stored here: http://wikipedia.aksw.org/index.php?qid=9 I...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 8, 2008 1:20 am
... Yes, it's a neat project. I've talked to the guys behind that a little bit. ... As you raised in your second question, there are two sides to this - first...
