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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by abraae on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:31PM (#16378028)
The intestinal fortitude needed to prepare a proposal for these mega projects is enormous. I always end up with a gut churning feeling that no one is even going to read my work (which is interrupting any work on real projects), or that some back hander will result in a not level playing field.
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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by pavel_lishin on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @02:14PM (#16378425)
Do people read them? If it's really a phone-sized book, I assume that there's some sort of algorithm, whether run by a person or a computer, that is just looking for things to check off a list.
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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by gbacon on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:35PM (#16380161)
Sometimes from debriefs, it is clear that they at best skimmed. Therefore the job of the proposal writer is to make the evaluator's job easy and to make the reader eager to turn the page, e.g., no walls of text just like on reddit or Hacker News.
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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:09PM (#16378925)
There is no algorithm or computer looking at it. It’s essentially a contract, to be looked at by lawyers and project sponsors.
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