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Outsourcing Winners and Losers
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times has an article on the winners and losers of the outsourcing trend. It's a Q and A session with a distinguished panel of experts on the topic, including Professor M. Eric Johnson, who says that, 'Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore and what's left in their place are more advanced project management jobs.' Now I know coders aren't rocket scientists, but less advanced than project managers? Ouch."
I recall the biggest benefit to America was provided by a European by the name of Linus. Ok, he did not work in India, or China, but wasn't America obligated to counter Micro$oft from its own shores!!!
No, fuck you very much.
If teachers REALLY a shit about students, they wouldn't go on strike for retirement benefits when the government trades them in for smaller class sizes (yes, unlike them, I actually read the bill).
I speak as a proud student (at the time) who ended any and all respect for teachers that day.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Bull shit. 20 years ago, today's "modern programmers" would've been executed for the crap they write. Very few of those called programmers today have even heard of a clue much less posess one. Things like java have poluted the world by making everything think they can program. The more intellegence placed in the compiler and language, translates to less in the programmer. In a few decades, society will come crubming down for lack of someone smart enough to write a compiler or VM.
it to the highest bidder. And they will also outsource your stuff to even cheaper places off their shores and you'll get back crap that has to be re-written anyway. I think I'll learn to be a plumber, they make good money.
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If I had a nickel for every time some silly elitist fool who took a "software engineering" course in his junior and senior years and thus considers himself an "engineer" waved his degree around and looked down his nose at all the poor, unwashed coders around him, I'd be richer than Gates. Christ, man, get over yourself. You're not an engineer. Case in point: if you tried calling yourself an engineer in Canada or the UK, you'd be FINED and hollered at by a judge and a professional board.
Feh. What twaddle.
BY THE WAY: You "software engineers" are big fans of BUFD (Big Up Front Design). You LOVE the waterfall model of project management. You're clinging to ancient, not-so-hot methodologies, like the mainframe dinosaurs who think object oriented programming is a communist plot and that Fortran 77 was how God meant man to program (ha ha ha!). I'll take agile processes over your waterfall any day. And, I'll be a hell of a lot more productive than you.
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!