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A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing
thefinite writes "This article needs to be read by anyone interested in the outsourcing of IT jobs to India, no matter your opinion of it. It dispels some rumors (for example, if Indian IT companies do such bad work, why are over half of Carnegie Mellon's highest-rated programming companies Indian?). It addresses all of the arguments. Perhaps most importantly, it adds faces to the problem. It not only tells us about the American programmers who are out of jobs, but also about the Indians who are getting them. In the end of it, this is what Free Trade is about: people. This article makes that clear."
then why did you elected him to white house
This leaves the americans with the opportunities to open liquor stores!
As I was told by an Indian man at a liquor store once as I was reading a magazine... "this is not a library, you either buy or get out".
Actually, there was a day and time when you could make money, feed your family, etc. by just doing a good job day in and day out. That day ended, yes. So I guess apparantly I have to work for 10 years to get my PHD, then invent something in order to have any chance of making any money? Is that the moral of your story? Wow, that's certainly economical. Wal-Mart greeter is looking like the right career move right now.
" I know parts of companies that are rated at SEI Level 5, but produce some of the worst crap I've seen."
My dog eats food and produces shit. He does it consistenly, and he has a whole process he follows. Hell, it might be SEI level 7 based on how well that process works.
But its still shit.
Stop trying to "curry" favor on both sides of the issue...
"They've canceled the show but we're still here. What does that make us?" "Big Damn Junkies, Sir!" "Ain't we just"
This is why MBA schools should be shut down once and for all, they have been produced miserable failures for the past 2 decades, a ton of greedy idiot savants who are unable to see the whole picture.
You know, nothing says Big Picture like performance tweaking an inline function!
Nah, Afganistan has them beat for cost of living.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
>So when are you going to give me all your stuff? >Come now, don't be selfish!
He IS being selfish... Tell you what, in the spirit of liberalism, I'll give you all his stuff.
Is anyone else thinking about outsourcing themselves?
I figure I'll just get a tan, move over to india and live like a king.
find / -name "*.sig" | xargs rm
As one person said in the article, "where do you go after knowledge".
Anti-knowledge! UFO cults, Enron "accountants", HP PR, TV, SCO PR, WMD finder, Politics. Bullshit is the Future of America!. So put on your Hale-Bopp sneakers and come ride the magic bus!
Table-ized A.I.
"Irregardless" Is anyone else annoyed this word made it into the dictionary despite meaning the EXACT SAME THING as its root word?
Corporations: your universal scapegoat for all society's ills.