"This announcement has to cost Apple billions in lost sales as customers inevitably decide to wait for Intel boxes."
Actually, this is the only dumb statement Cringely makes. If anything, I suspect, Apple's sales will quadruple as people line-up to snap up Macs before they get Intelanalized.
I've represented the password to my Wells Fargo bank account in numerous places...even on my monitor. All I did was sketch a kitten on fire. Another upside is that the drawing is sexy.
If every employer were like you, life would be much easier for the few, the brave, the competent. Instead we have dumbasses interviewing dumbasses. In the event the hiring dumbass interviews a "real" architect, he quickly retreats and hires a dumbass. Ignorance breeding bliss has become a byword in the j2ee space. The good ones can no longer count on their value being recognized because of the amount of crap embedded in the system.
WTF. I just checked.
#1 is from Canada.
#2 is f Poland (guy just joined Purdue)
#3 is f Poland
#4 is f Australian
#5 is f USA and earned a whopping 3.5K
#6 is f Russia
I am sure there are other projects, can remember one right now YahooPOPs.
I could be facetious and refer to several obscure desi projects. Going by developer names, latest seems to be Marigold.
But you know that I'm referring to the miniscule numbers particularly taking into account how many desis are in the field.
Good observation but a closer look explains it.
1) Topcoder payouts are generally micro-payouts. And most of the decent Indian programmers are employed, and hence not "motivated" enough. The CA payout apparently was enough motivation.
2) I haven't looked lately but if I am not mistaken most of the topcoder payouts go to eastern europe. I suspect the decent programmers there have more time on their hands. As these countries catch the outsourcing wave, suspect their numbers on tc will drop accordingly.
Yeah, i minored in freudian socialogy.
Indian programmers who work on open-source projects are capitalistic bastards. Ever seen a desi begin (leave alone release) an open-source product without getting paid for it?
Doesn't rest of the world have decent music to offer? So listen to that for the next few years. I recommend U Srinivas renderings.
Boycott RIAA/MPAA backed offerings and maybe someone more humane will take their place after they go extinct.
Okay, super tool. But what does mining our hard-drives provide Google?
* Even more targetted advertising possibilities? Integrate with mozilla/IE and they "provide" us with advertising du jour (final delivery via gmail and internet-google of course.)
* Very tantalizing is the possibility that independent hackers will turn desktop-search into a incredible P2P search/find/share tool. I could write such a tool from scratch but getting millions to adopt it would be a major hassle. If Google has already penetrated the desktops, creating a hacked-p2p-shell around their search-tool would be a KILLER APP. THe possibilities are enormous. Even Google might conceivably do this -- Google should be aware that I've patented this idea and retained D. Boies and J. Cochran.
Wish I'd seen this article earlier to make some important observations. Please mod this up if you think appropriate.
As an Indian -- I can categorically assert that Indians are simply not cut out for call-center and tech-support type jobs. This is totally politically incorrect, some idiots might even ascribe this as a racist troll post -- but the education system and religious customs in India permit and encourage ABSTRACT thought and behavior. Routine, repetitive tasks go TOTALLY against the grain of the Indian personality (in general.) An Indian taking tech-support calls will simply get bored out of his mind and won't do the freaking job properly (I mean who could under the circumstances.)
I suggest that only programming, and design jobs that require a higher level of abstract thought be off-shored. Send the mundane jobs elsewhere. Granted this won't be popular in India where sheer number of jobs are needed; so I'm only speaking from the corporate standpoint.
Peace out.
Slarty, I know exactly where you are coming from. And this mind-share is only going to get worse. Microsoft is going after the CS curriculum itself. In a few years I wonder if J2EE will be a dirty word! Check out this article( Robbing The Cradle )to see what I mean. peace out.
El cheapo web-cams have been around forever. So someone got the brainwave to sell them in bulk minus lens and optics? Okay, that's caustic. But what the heck...how dated is this...
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"This announcement has to cost Apple billions in lost sales as customers inevitably decide to wait for Intel boxes."
Actually, this is the only dumb statement Cringely makes. If anything, I suspect, Apple's sales will quadruple as people line-up to snap up Macs before they get Intelanalized.
I've represented the password to my Wells Fargo bank account in numerous places...even on my monitor. All I did was sketch a kitten on fire. Another upside is that the drawing is sexy.
So what is it?
If every employer were like you, life would be much easier for the few, the brave, the competent. Instead we have dumbasses interviewing dumbasses. In the event the hiring dumbass interviews a "real" architect, he quickly retreats and hires a dumbass. Ignorance breeding bliss has become a byword in the j2ee space.
The good ones can no longer count on their value being recognized because of the amount of crap embedded in the system.
WTF. I just checked.
#1 is from Canada. #2 is f Poland (guy just joined Purdue) #3 is f Poland #4 is f Australian #5 is f USA and earned a whopping 3.5K #6 is f Russia
I am sure there are other projects, can remember one right now YahooPOPs.
I could be facetious and refer to several obscure desi projects. Going by developer names, latest seems to be Marigold.
But you know that I'm referring to the miniscule numbers particularly taking into account how many desis are in the field.
Good observation but a closer look explains it. 1) Topcoder payouts are generally micro-payouts. And most of the decent Indian programmers are employed, and hence not "motivated" enough. The CA payout apparently was enough motivation. 2) I haven't looked lately but if I am not mistaken most of the topcoder payouts go to eastern europe. I suspect the decent programmers there have more time on their hands. As these countries catch the outsourcing wave, suspect their numbers on tc will drop accordingly. Yeah, i minored in freudian socialogy.
Indian programmers who work on open-source projects are capitalistic bastards. Ever seen a desi begin (leave alone release) an open-source product without getting paid for it?
Doesn't rest of the world have decent music to offer? So listen to that for the next few years. I recommend U Srinivas renderings. Boycott RIAA/MPAA backed offerings and maybe someone more humane will take their place after they go extinct.
Okay, super tool. But what does mining our hard-drives provide Google? * Even more targetted advertising possibilities? Integrate with mozilla/IE and they "provide" us with advertising du jour (final delivery via gmail and internet-google of course.) * Very tantalizing is the possibility that independent hackers will turn desktop-search into a incredible P2P search/find/share tool. I could write such a tool from scratch but getting millions to adopt it would be a major hassle. If Google has already penetrated the desktops, creating a hacked-p2p-shell around their search-tool would be a KILLER APP. THe possibilities are enormous. Even Google might conceivably do this -- Google should be aware that I've patented this idea and retained D. Boies and J. Cochran.
Wish I'd seen this article earlier to make some important observations. Please mod this up if you think appropriate. As an Indian -- I can categorically assert that Indians are simply not cut out for call-center and tech-support type jobs. This is totally politically incorrect, some idiots might even ascribe this as a racist troll post -- but the education system and religious customs in India permit and encourage ABSTRACT thought and behavior. Routine, repetitive tasks go TOTALLY against the grain of the Indian personality (in general.) An Indian taking tech-support calls will simply get bored out of his mind and won't do the freaking job properly (I mean who could under the circumstances.) I suggest that only programming, and design jobs that require a higher level of abstract thought be off-shored. Send the mundane jobs elsewhere. Granted this won't be popular in India where sheer number of jobs are needed; so I'm only speaking from the corporate standpoint. Peace out.
Slarty, I know exactly where you are coming from. And this mind-share is only going to get worse. Microsoft is going after the CS curriculum itself. In a few years I wonder if J2EE will be a dirty word! Check out this article( Robbing The Cradle )to see what I mean. peace out.
Obviously Nielsen has no clue. If he read yesterday's slashdot piece of ascii-porn right here on Slashdot, he wouldn't gush crap...
El cheapo web-cams have been around forever. So someone got the brainwave to sell them in bulk minus lens and optics? Okay, that's caustic. But what the heck...how dated is this...