Actually, most of the Indian programmers I know want to move to the US (or secondarily Europe). The baby boomer shortage in the US is going to be met by the sheer number of educated non-programmer Indians and Chinese. The US government really needs to encourage immigration.
Oh, and the rise in programmer salaries is simpler to counter by moving to a smaller town (or a bunch of smaller towns pop-1M or thereabouts).
Except that Infosys is hiring in a lot of places outside India as well. Philippines, China, Mexico, Russia,.... Oh, and the US. But only freshers in the US, without experience.
ISPs need to reject spam, not delete it (or tag it). Users make more mistakes when filtering manually, and it's a lot more expensive to accept all that email, parse it and tag it.
And if you have a spam folder with your ISP, then the ISP needs to ensure you check your email regularly there, and/or waste storage space keeping spam.
Hardware is cheap, good hardware is still expensive, and the people needed to run large mail farms are even more expensive.
Don't worry, the wheel of time will keep on turning, and in a new age, which some men will call the third age, Robert Jordan will be reborn and finally finish the series.
My problem with enforced whitespace is that tabs and spaces are treated differently. I use 8 space tabs, someone elses uses 4 space tabs, and someone else uses 2 spaces, but all our code can still work properly, even when we edit the same file. Differentiating between tabs and space characters is the big reason why I dislike Python.
There are a great many non-allopathic medical systems which work quite well. Ayurveda and Unani, to name two. Hell, some Ayurvedia remedies have even been patented in the US (like using turmeric powder as a disinfectant, for example).
It still has a small-town feel. Having visited, I must say it's easily one of the most wonderful cities I've ever seen.
Which makes the assumption you like small towns. For those of us who like bigger cities (NYC is about the only US city which rates as big on my scale), small towns suck. Great places to visit, sucky to live in.
A gas tax is for the not-easily-recoverable gas you consume. A pollution tax is what it costs society to clean up your mess (think global warming, pollution related diseases, etc). The road space tax would discourage driving in urban areas, because there land is scarcer/more densely populated (and you have to only consider peak population densities, especially in office areas).
Craftsman vs programmer? You need engineers to build buildings, but you need artists to do the really great stuff.
Software engineering works well for long running projects with slowly changing requirements, but you need a craftsman for projects where requirements change fast.
Simple, the research money and facilities are in the US and Europe, the undergraduate level education and money is in India (spend 3000 USD for a four year CS degree, then get a masters in the US, get a US job and greencard, move back to India as a US citizen with a US salary is pretty much the current business plan of a lot of people.)
Cars impose a net cost on society. Perhaps it's time to tax cars based on the roadspace they use as well. And the pollution they spew into the air.
People can live where they want, but commuting in a private vehicle is not a right. Sure, you can choose to drive, but perhaps the right solution is to look at something else.
To make another analogy, stop whining about Windows being insecure and riddlable with spyware and viruses and switch to something else. (A computer analogy on a car thread).
The opposite of evil is live, in a certain sense of the word. Also, 'good' is an appropriate opposite of the word 'evil'. Compassion is not the opposite.
1> Train millions of people to search data and get accurate results. 2> One day, replace the keylogger feeds with Internet pages 3> Run your own human powered search engine 4> ??? 5> Profit!
You don't need programmers to sort the data. India has enough people with just sufficient English language education to do the sorting and searching, without the need for programming that task.
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Until you realise that we need a way to make first contact, and then the whole "friends only" thing breaks down.
One of those cases where the benefit to an individual is less than the benefit to the group. Also see the American lifestyle.
Actually, most of the Indian programmers I know want to move to the US (or secondarily Europe). The baby boomer shortage in the US is going to be met by the sheer number of educated non-programmer Indians and Chinese. The US government really needs to encourage immigration.
Oh, and the rise in programmer salaries is simpler to counter by moving to a smaller town (or a bunch of smaller towns pop-1M or thereabouts).
s/Neuromancer/Snowcrash/. Then rethink your comment.
Until you get snow on your screen.
Except that Infosys is hiring in a lot of places outside India as well. Philippines, China, Mexico, Russia, .... Oh, and the US. But only freshers in the US, without experience.
It's a Snowcrash reference, actually.
Lu La Ul Gu Hu Ba Be Ge Di Mo Se Co Pi
ISPs need to reject spam, not delete it (or tag it). Users make more mistakes when filtering manually, and it's a lot more expensive to accept all that email, parse it and tag it.
And if you have a spam folder with your ISP, then the ISP needs to ensure you check your email regularly there, and/or waste storage space keeping spam.
Hardware is cheap, good hardware is still expensive, and the people needed to run large mail farms are even more expensive.
Don't worry, the wheel of time will keep on turning, and in a new age, which some men will call the third age, Robert Jordan will be reborn and finally finish the series.
mutt -f file.mbox
or just drop it into a uwimap server.
My problem with enforced whitespace is that tabs and spaces are treated differently. I use 8 space tabs, someone elses uses 4 space tabs, and someone else uses 2 spaces, but all our code can still work properly, even when we edit the same file. Differentiating between tabs and space characters is the big reason why I dislike Python.
Big Brother is other people!
There are a great many non-allopathic medical systems which work quite well. Ayurveda and Unani, to name two. Hell, some Ayurvedia remedies have even been patented in the US (like using turmeric powder as a disinfectant, for example).
The company which brought computing to the masses was Compaq. Microsoft merely rode the gravy train.
It still has a small-town feel. Having visited, I must say it's easily one of the most wonderful cities I've ever seen.
Which makes the assumption you like small towns. For those of us who like bigger cities (NYC is about the only US city which rates as big on my scale), small towns suck. Great places to visit, sucky to live in.
Genocide works. Just kill them *all*.
A gas tax is for the not-easily-recoverable gas you consume. A pollution tax is what it costs society to clean up your mess (think global warming, pollution related diseases, etc). The road space tax would discourage driving in urban areas, because there land is scarcer/more densely populated (and you have to only consider peak population densities, especially in office areas).
Craftsman vs programmer? You need engineers to build buildings, but you need artists to do the really great stuff.
Software engineering works well for long running projects with slowly changing requirements, but you need a craftsman for projects where requirements change fast.
Simple, the research money and facilities are in the US and Europe, the undergraduate level education and money is in India (spend 3000 USD for a four year CS degree, then get a masters in the US, get a US job and greencard, move back to India as a US citizen with a US salary is pretty much the current business plan of a lot of people.)
Cars impose a net cost on society. Perhaps it's time to tax cars based on the roadspace they use as well. And the pollution they spew into the air.
People can live where they want, but commuting in a private vehicle is not a right. Sure, you can choose to drive, but perhaps the right solution is to look at something else.
To make another analogy, stop whining about Windows being insecure and riddlable with spyware and viruses and switch to something else. (A computer analogy on a car thread).
The opposite of evil is live, in a certain sense of the word. Also, 'good' is an appropriate opposite of the word 'evil'. Compassion is not the opposite.
What? You don't see the genius of the plan?
1> Train millions of people to search data and get accurate results.
2> One day, replace the keylogger feeds with Internet pages
3> Run your own human powered search engine
4> ???
5> Profit!
You don't need programmers to sort the data. India has enough people with just sufficient English language education to do the sorting and searching, without the need for programming that task.
Freaky. It's almost as if this thing that is aware of so much in the world has no self awareness. Or someone screwed up the coding.
That's what Google wants you to think.