Ukraine Holds 4th Largest Programmer Population

andrewuoft points out this BusinessWeek article on the budding technology sector of Ukraine; the article points out that Ukraine has -- "after the U.S., India, and Russia -- the fourth largest number of computer programmers in the world" and that "Even today, scientific institutes each year churn out some 50,000 science or technology graduates. Not surprisingly, Ukrainians don't see why their country can't become a big player in the global technology market, like India."

Comments

Oh, well...Ukrainian Women are known to be...

[ambelamba]

Loose. Damn loose. Hungarian loose. No wonder why they wanna get the hell out of there. :D

Well..

[netrat]

Wellsir,

The underlying cause of this statistic can be resolved by employing the following simple thought experiment:

Well, what the fuck else are you going to do in fucking Ukraine?

Re:I can see why...

[museumpeace]

...In case you haven't noticed, the american dollar is going down the tubes and will continue the trend for the forseeable future (with Bush at the helm)...
The point you are making is valid, folks like Rubik and the guy who invented Tetris are two of many examples that Slavs and Russians can originate commercially viable products and ideas. [and , from my perspective as an american sw engineer, that is competition to be scared of]. The point I was making is that there is a perception, not hard to substantiate if you read the news, that eastern europe is a den of theives...I doubt its actaully any worse than other places, just has more talent with stuck with less opportunity for legitimate business.
But you didn't read my sig! so here it is twice:
if (euro >= (4.0*dollar)) rename("dollar", "bushbuck");

Re:I can see why...

[museumpeace]

You are absolutely right. And it is not just the level of rigor of the educational offering, its the gumption of the students. I believe Americans have, on average, an increasingly impoverished culture with respect to the value of education, and science/math/engineering in particular. I have 30 years in the software business so I do a fair amount of resume reading and interviewing...green card candidates routinely show in their CV a lot more ambition ... not that there aren't smart hard working Americans, just the proportions are off. Its as if too many Americans get their attitude toward technical subjects and homework from watching Homer Simpson. Raj and Pavel labored but got through differential equations. Jim and Bill just want any Bachelors degree that will set them up for an MBA.
So in america, "geek" and "nerd" are terms applied to a lot of people known to be technically proficient and assumed by others to be socially marginal...do we have a problem here?