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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:31PM (#19148333)
Right, so based upon repeated viewings of Breaking Bad and Narcos, you feel you have the real world experience to understand the expected rate of an IT project in Mexico?
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by jerrysievert on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:54PM (#19148521)
> you feel you have the real world experience to understand the expected rate of an IT project in Mexico?

not OP, but a risk vs reward calculation should probably go into it ...

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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by readhn on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:31AM (#19154243)
The world is global. There is no "local" anymore especially in IT.
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:59AM (#19154491)
You say that, but that would mean that a dev in Indian should be making the same as in Silicon valley, and the projects should all the cost the same.
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by therealx on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:38PM (#19148856)
I haven't watched any of those shows but estimating those specs easily gets that high, esp when there's the risk
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