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Everyone has their tin foil hat with stuff on like this, but unless they are paying a 100 - 1000 engineers 250k-500k a year, I doubt theyve built anything usefu

Everyone has their tin foil hat with stuff on like this, but unless they are paying a 100 - 1000 engineers 250k-500k a year, I doubt theyve built anything useful with uptime. Maybe they could just scan a massive dataset of everyones posts, with some string searching, but still. I just dont see any entity like this being able to accomplish this task effectively.

millzlane 5y ago
The entity's only job is to create a RFP and pick one. It's the company they hire that you have to worry about. The one thing we can count on is the government will spend the money to get what they want.
barbazoo 5y ago
Why do you believe that unless they're paying their developers "250k-500k a year", they wouldn't have built something useful?
- logicslave 5y ago
  Because analyzing all of social media with efficiency and effectively is really hard.
  - barbazoo 5y ago
    It implies that only an extremely highly paid developer can write efficient code which I think just isn't true.
    - logicslave 5y ago
      I've been programming for 15 years and worked at firms of all sizes and payscale, I see a direct correlation between the two
_Nat_ 5y ago
What would "100 - 1000 engineers" even be doing? The story starts off saying that the work's being done by analysts: > The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies. , so it sounds more like they've got some folks browsing social-media. Granted, a lot of the post-scanning would seem better done by bots, and stuff like sentiment-analysis could help classify posts for human inspection, so they'd probably want to hire a few engineers, but why hundreds? And why 250-500 kUSD/yr for such mundane work?
- logicslave 5y ago
  Exactly. "> The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies." This is useless and nobody should fear it. You should fear a set of teams of highly trained technologists. Thats not what we have here

millzlane 5y ago

The entity's only job is to create a RFP and pick one. It's the company they hire that you have to worry about. The one thing we can count on is the government will spend the money to get what they want.

barbazoo 5y ago

Why do you believe that unless they're paying their developers "250k-500k a year", they wouldn't have built something useful?

logicslave 5y ago
Because analyzing all of social media with efficiency and effectively is really hard.
- barbazoo 5y ago
  It implies that only an extremely highly paid developer can write efficient code which I think just isn't true.
  - logicslave 5y ago
    I've been programming for 15 years and worked at firms of all sizes and payscale, I see a direct correlation between the two

_Nat_ 5y ago

What would "100 - 1000 engineers" even be doing? The story starts off saying that the work's being done by analysts: > The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies. , so it sounds more like they've got some folks browsing social-media. Granted, a lot of the post-scanning would seem better done by bots, and stuff like sentiment-analysis could help classify posts for human inspection, so they'd probably want to hire a few engineers, but why hundreds? And why 250-500 kUSD/yr for such mundane work?

logicslave 5y ago
Exactly. "> The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies." This is useless and nobody should fear it. You should fear a set of teams of highly trained technologists. Thats not what we have here