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Long Term Effects of Outsourcing
simulate writes "There have been several postings about outsourcing and offshoring in the past
few weeks. Is outsourcing just a fad? In Outsourcing
Programmers is Bad Strategy for Software Companies
author Michael Bean compares offshoring to the enthusiasm for Internet startups
in the Nineties.
He claims
that
outsourcing programmers is bad for companies not because
of the programmer layoffs, but because technology companies lose their
capacity
to innovate.
Offshoring is a mistake
when technology companies confuse operational
effectiveness and strategy." I don't think the comparasion to Dot Bombs is entirely accurate - the trend to globalization overall has been going on for decades. Still interesting piece.
Nope! Indian got it :(
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BusHitler LIED about the Iraqi WMD's and is LYING now about the economy in trying to take credit for the recovery. Of course he has nothing but help from CNN and FOX News because they don't DARE question anything he and Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and John Ashcroft say. The outsourcing is BushHitler's fault. IMPEACH BUSHITLER NOW or America will SUFFER.
The FBI took a shotgun approach toward protesters partly because of the FBI's "belief that dissident speech and association should be prevented because they were incipient steps toward the possible ultimate commission of act which might be criminal," according to a Senate report.
On Nov. 23 news broke that the FBI is actively conducting surveillance of antiwar demonstrators, supposedly to "blunt potential violence by extremist elements," according to a Reuters interview with a federal law enforcement official.
Given the FBI's expansive definition of "potential violence" in the past, this is a net that could catch almost any group or individual who falls into official disfavor.
In the long term we are all dead.
Speaking of jobs, what do people here know about Goldman Sachs? I've been thinking of applying for a job there. I'm not a programmer, though. I'm just looking for some steady job, and GS is looking pretty attractive right now.
Ask Anal Cox why they changed all instances of "colour" to "color" in the Linux source tree. They invented the language, why don't they fucking use it?
Other British spellings they need to avoid: lorry (for truck) bonnet (hood) boot (trunk) fag (cigarrette) bird (cunt) shag (fuck) bugger (Tony Blair)