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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by eaton on Sunday January 31, 2021 @01:50PM (#25981374)
Heh. That stuff has always felt like an inexplicably weird trope, like Hackers-inspired visions of computer people as living Mondo 2000 articles.

After 8 hours in a windowless conference room with a parade of stakeholders, making RACI matrices on a stained whiteboard and scarfing down cafeteria sandwiches during "bio-break," I want to _talk to my wife on the phone then stare blankly at the ceiling_, not go out for a night on the town.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by ethbr0 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:34PM (#25983760)
laughs Agreed. The most interest thing I tended to do was "What looks like a good restaurant in this area?"

... did get really good at reading between the lines of Yelp / maps reviews. (Objectively, friends have since commented on it)

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by wainstead on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:33AM (#25987742)
> like Hackers-inspired visions of computer people as living Mondo 2000 articles.

Upvote just for this line of poetry. Mondo 2000, haven’t heard that name in decades.

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