Waldo Jaquith
Waldo Jaquith
Oh, right! You're keeping an eye on those, IIRC?
I was with you right up until the last sentence. :) People have no problem posting a comment to a law (or article, blog entry, video, etc.) without providing any...
Yeah, I think the expert/non-expert distinction is key here. Throughout the development of The State Decoded, I've erred towards supporting the non-expert (when a choice must be made), but tried...
No, @nelsonrosario, no attorneys have stepped forward to contribute code, although attorneys have been involved since long before day 1, in helping to plan, design, and grow The State Decoded.
The ball is in The Sunlight Foundation's court on this issue.
There's no getting around it, unfortunately—Sunlight hasn't added the necessary functionality, since they're not tokenizing section identifiers.
I've been thinking about how to store and retrieve these laws and structural units. Presently, to get a list of all laws within a given structural unit, we simply retrieve...
I think we just need an additional level of abstraction. Right now we join the `laws` table directly to the `editions` table. I think what we need is a `laws_editions`...
It's a bit different than that, so I'm glad you asked. If I'm not expressing myself clearly, then I'm not _thinking_ clearly, and that's trouble. I [had been thinking of...