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oldwebguy94

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    Comment #42875075

    > 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 indi…

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    Comment #42865471

    > 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 t…

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    Comment #42862151

    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/Care…

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    Comment #42861551

    > 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…

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    Comment #42850711

    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 XMLHTTPRe…

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    Comment #42850693

    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 19…