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MIT Students Get an Education in Software Development

Posted by michael on from the wake-up-and-smell-the-mango-lassi dept.

John Valenti writes "Philip Greenspun's Blog had an interesting entry for December 1: 'It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseware was done in India...'"

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  1. Re:Harming the local economy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've got a PHP site I need to have done.

    Sort of like MIT CourseWare, but different content.

    I will pay $2 per hour plus a box of donuts every day.

    Interested?

  2. Overpriced Tuition by superpulpsicle · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    $35000 a year in tuition. MIT has no excuse to do anything overseas.

    At this cost they should ship India folks over here to the U.S. and provide free palak paneer while they work on their open courseware.

  3. Dear MIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If I had money your endownment would not get it.

    Up Yours,
    MIT Class of '97
    Web Programmer, Sapient, Fired '01

  4. Re:Funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why should MIT's Computer Scientists and Computer Engineers bother with the IT field? After all, we CSs are not network monkeys. CS and CE degrees are applicable to a much wider range of jobs than just IT garbage. Maybe most people don't care about the distinction, but I'm tired of seeing CS and IT equated against each other. CS!=IT

  5. has it occurred to anyone .... by taperkat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    that it could just be an easy answer (aside from cost)? They're outsourcing the work to people who *actually* work, instead of just get paid and act as if they do. Real workers instead of drones. Maybe some of the kids whose jobs are being outsourced could learn something about a work ethic, which IS sorely lacking in today's business world.

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  6. I need to know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why the fuck can't Indians keep to their word. Why is it that yes may mean no, no may mean yes, or yes and no may mean nothing all together.

    "Oh sure I'll deliver the program by December 5, 2003."

    YEAH RIGHT! I'll believe it when I see it. Which doesn't happen 99.9% of the time.

    And not only that, the work is shoddy, messed up, unmaintainable, and (insert other adjective describing piece of shit here).

    I'm sure many of you who have worked with Indian colleagues will agree. I am so fed up with their constant bullshit.

  7. Re:You know you're really in trouble... by Hognoxious · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "The jobs Britain stole from the Asian subcontinent 200 years ago are now being returned"

    I stopped reading at that point, because that was enough to tell that it's total and utter bollocks.

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