oldwebguy94

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   by oldwebguy94 2y ago

   > It would actually have made more sense to convert all these positions that wouldn't fall under Policy/Career (that you for some reason believe could) and then to dismiss the individuals without offering this deferred resignat
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   by oldwebguy94 2y ago

   > Note that this all started with all that digital coin-mining. Just more burning the Earth for fakeass money so callous bastards can get richer. Always strikes me as interesting that "Nvidia" sounds like the syllables in the m
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   by oldwebguy94 2y ago

   Of course it has. I read that. But that's exactly the point, isn't it!? Many, many of these jobs going up the seniority scale will reappear but be recreated as Schedule Policy/Career. (Schedule F no longer exists, I think) I
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   by oldwebguy94 2y ago

   > this is just a way to reduce headcount by the end of this FY It's not just a way to reduce headcount, as the next four years will make abundantly clear. People will be hired back into these jobs under the new Schedule Policy/
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   by oldwebguy94 2y ago

   Exactly -- see my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42850693 I did this as the front-end engineer of a high-profile site that went live well before XMLHTTPRequest.
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   by oldwebguy94 2y ago

   It's important to understand that we had "AJAX" before we had AJAX, if you see what I mean. I was part of a team that deployed an e-commerce site that made international news in 1998, that used AJAX-type techniques in a way t