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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:You know you're really in trouble... by musikit · · Score: 5, Funny

    donno what school you went to but at the school i went to a large majority of the grad students were indian. so

    "You know you're really in trouble...
    when Indian developers are even cheaper than" Indian developers???

  2. Dear M.I.T., by mikesab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where abouts in India did you find these programmers?
    Yours Truly,

    Lumberg
    Manager,
    Intertech

  3. I must be in the wrong career track by rcastro0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I want back in the academic world !
    (...)about $2 million was spent on technology and the salaries of folks at MIT who oversee the technology. (...) A student asks the speakers why they chose Microsoft Content Management Server (...) The answer: "We read a Gartner Group report (...)"
    --
    Quem a paca cara compra, paca cara pagará.
  4. Dear future MIT graduates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, I would like fries with that.

  5. Re:I'm starting to come around in my way of thinki by cmdr_beeftaco · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll buy 'em. Are they pretty widgets?

  6. It's funny by DroidBiker · · Score: 2, Funny

    You never see a company outsourcing its senior management functions to save money. I wonder how much a company like Disney would save if it laid off Eisner and gave his job to an MBA in India.

  7. This makes me worry... by EulerX07 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that they would outsource my job to someone that wouldn't be reading slashdot right now and would actually be working.

    Darn! Gotta go, the boss is walking this way!

  8. Re:Funny by operagost · · Score: 2, Funny
    You'll never find it.

    It's an ancient Chinese secret, huh?

    --

    Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
  9. Re:Give a man a fish.... by Dielectric · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've heard it differently.
    Give a man a fish, and he owes you one fish.
    Teach a man to fish, and you give up your monopoly.

    That seems to fit better here.

  10. Re:You know you're really in trouble... by ImpTech · · Score: 3, Funny
    "You know you're really in trouble... when Indian developers are even cheaper than" Indian developers???

    Hey, thats big trouble. Thats like a paradox or something!

  11. WTF? by theolein · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not even American and I shudder with rage reading this bullshit. So basically what he is saying that he and his crew were simply too fucking lazy and stupid to do anything else than use Microsoft's software because Gartner, which is known to be the biggest bunch of brainless thieving fucks in the so called consulting industry, said to do so, and then to go and outsource the whole fucking thing to save the extra money that was spent on buying Microsoft software.

    Con-fucken-gratulations

    But the best and most violently disgusting bit is when he says that this state of the art course at MIt is basically telling those MIT CS students who pay around $29k a year, that they will have no fuckin jobs when they leave.

    This must give the word "student" a whole new meaning: Future MacJob applicant!

    If it was me I would organise a lynch mob on campus for pricks like this. Then I would leave school at take a course on plumbing.