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Re:The US digital service by nacin on Friday August 14, 2015 @01:19PM (#10061380)
There are a lot of really complex, systemic factors that can help explain why the government has gotten to where it is. I'll just note that on my project, I work with a lot of really awesome contractors every day.
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Re:The US digital service by allworknoplay on Saturday August 15, 2015 @07:10PM (#10067312)
That's totally fair; I've done minimal work around government, and I don't claim to be an expert on this at all. I just know that successful contractors are rewarded disproportionately for their ability to navigate bureaucracy. Also, that was especially the case with healthcare.gov.
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Re:The US digital service by sarciszewski on Friday August 14, 2015 @01:49PM (#10061589)
Have you replaced any terrible ones? ;)

On the flipside, I'm not sure how much this vouch counts, considering you previously worked on the WP core and it takes a long time for the WP core to change anything (e.g. the minimum PHP version). Maybe your standards for "slow bureaucracy" and others' are different?

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