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."

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Hacker Circle Jerk

[Sebastopol]

Before we all start patting ourselves on the back because Hackers Make the World Go Round, stop and think about how successful a project would be if you threw a bunch of new-collge-grad "hackers" into a room with no management.

Despite YEARS of brainwashing (by Scott Adams) that Management is useless and evil, which you all seem to be blinded by, the reality is: Management is far more critical than grunt biomass. A good manager is worth a hundred half-skilled underlings. And good managers are worht their pay because they are rare, but the there are millions of squids who can type "gcc main.c..." and hack with an open book.