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A comment on The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java. Parent comment

Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by maxxxxx on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @02:28PM (#16378562)
You still can do both if you work for the government.
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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by woolvalley on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:04PM (#16378880)
But you exchange a lower salary for that government job, which makes saving for your 401k & co less effective. There is also the entire calculation of the expected value of money now vs 30 years from now.
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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by sjg007 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:43PM (#16379194)
Govt salaries aren’t that low.
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