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Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US
phobos13013 writes "NPR is reporting Indian software maker Wipro is outsourcing positions to a development office opening in Atlanta, Georgia. Although it sounds good for US job growth, the implication is that firms outside the US appear to be dominating more and more in the global economy, even from developing and underdeveloped regions of the world. Similarly, salaries of IT professionals world-wide are projected to stagnate or possibly fall due to the large pool of qualified applicants in the market today."
In India, jobs outsource to you!
Isn't it just a THEORY (i.e. not fact) that a "larger pool of qualified applicants" would hurt wages?
And isn't it just a THEORY (i.e. not a fact) that all this outsourcing (on either side) is supposed to HELP American workers?
When my wages get cut, that doesn't sound like it helps.
How about more facts, less theory.
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It's because projects outsourced there go Bang! Galore!
In Soviet Russia... oh shit!
POOL'S CLOSED!
lago:/Applications david$ du -s iTunes.app/
199896 iTunes.app/
lago:/Applications david$ cd ~/Music/
lago:~/Music david$ du -s iTunes/
33180792 iTunes/
lago:~/Music david$
'nuff said? Maybe. From my point of view, for a lot of applications the volume of data you are fooling with (like the above example) completely overwhelms any software bloat.
Sometimes bloat does matter. If I wanted to make a little fanless machine that would boot off of flash drive, I'd need to use damned skinny software on it because I'd be faced with very limited disk space and I wouldn't want applications using that poor flash drive as virtual memory.
Dependencies matter too. A smallish application with a mess of dependencies (especially if it is at all fussy about those dependencies) is a lot more trouble to deal with than a bloated application that doesn't have that mess of dependencies. Sometimes there is much to be said for statically linking things.
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India outsources to you!
You missed the irony. The country being outsourced to is the US of A in this case. But that's ok. I'll assume you're American.
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