er. I do a bunch in Java/C++ with Emacs, and an IDE usually slows me down. Conclusion: Use a real language, not VB unless your daily bread depends on it.:-)
But you have a good point here. For GUI/Interface type programming, an IDE is more important. For scripting type work, it's more important to have a readable, modular language as others have pointed out here.
I second that. I just apt-get dist-upgraded my FC 2 install, and the rpms arrived automatically. Next boot, xfs didn't start, so I had to mess with/etc/rc.d/rc5.d a little bit. After 15 minutes of apt-getting and fiddling, here I am, merrily surfing/.
PS: Looks like my framerate for glxgears took a minor hit, though..
Most of the growth in Indian IT market is due to outsourcing. Considering that the IT growth in US/Europe has stabilized over the last couple of years, the growth rate in India is bound to stabilize in sync.
At the same time, my friends in India tell me that for IT people other than code-monkeys, salaries there tend to grow at around 15% (they claim 25%, but that's hard for me to believe) annually. Which means that in a few years the salaries and therefore the corporate costs won't be as competitive as they are now.
Combined with the unashamed government corruption and the tendency of nontrivially many people to make a quick buck, the incentive to outsource any further will diminish.
IMHO, therefore, this is near-term pain while the jobs get recycled. There of course will be plenty of opportunities for the qualified people to move to India and help boost local technology consumption, but it's completely ridiculous to imagine Americans moving to India to work as telephone operators:-)
Re-education of laid-off people in the US is the answer, not moving to India/bashing outsourcing..
The company has not yet decided which of its development projects will be terminated as a result of the layoffs, Whitney said.
Nice. So first they'll fire possibly the wrong people and then decide which projects will suffer the least by the layoffs? The usual AOL priority screw-up witnessed again.
If one can pack the processors more densely, it would cut down on the wiring etc, or allow much shorter paths between nodes (better still, one might be able to stuff many processors on the same board or something), thereby increasing bandwidths (when you try to increase bus speed, path length and related current leakages etc do pose problems). This in turn means computations that require more 'random' communication between nodes can speed up. I suppose that's definitely worth pursuing for the more fine-grain computation where communication bandwitdh is the bottleneck.
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er. I do a bunch in Java/C++ with Emacs, and an IDE usually slows me down. Conclusion: Use a real language, not VB unless your daily bread depends on it. :-)
But you have a good point here. For GUI/Interface type programming, an IDE is more important. For scripting type work, it's more important to have a readable, modular language as others have pointed out here.
I second that. I just apt-get dist-upgraded my FC 2 install, and the rpms arrived automatically. Next boot, xfs didn't start, so I had to mess with /etc/rc.d/rc5.d a little bit. After 15 minutes of apt-getting and fiddling, here I am, merrily surfing /.
PS: Looks like my framerate for glxgears took a minor hit, though..
Most of the growth in Indian IT market is due to outsourcing. Considering that the IT growth in US/Europe has stabilized over the last couple of years, the growth rate in India is bound to stabilize in sync. At the same time, my friends in India tell me that for IT people other than code-monkeys, salaries there tend to grow at around 15% (they claim 25%, but that's hard for me to believe) annually. Which means that in a few years the salaries and therefore the corporate costs won't be as competitive as they are now. Combined with the unashamed government corruption and the tendency of nontrivially many people to make a quick buck, the incentive to outsource any further will diminish. IMHO, therefore, this is near-term pain while the jobs get recycled. There of course will be plenty of opportunities for the qualified people to move to India and help boost local technology consumption, but it's completely ridiculous to imagine Americans moving to India to work as telephone operators :-)
Re-education of laid-off people in the US is the answer, not moving to India/bashing outsourcing..
And Microsoft will not hire you if you happen to know Linux/UNIX programming :-)
Nice. So first they'll fire possibly the wrong people and then decide which projects will suffer the least by the layoffs? The usual AOL priority screw-up witnessed again.
Well, I don't want to sound too morbid, but what's a better way to make M$FT own up to its crappy software than a few lawsuits of wrongful death?
If one can pack the processors more densely, it would cut down on the wiring etc, or allow much shorter paths between nodes (better still, one might be able to stuff many processors on the same board or something), thereby increasing bandwidths (when you try to increase bus speed, path length and related current leakages etc do pose problems). This in turn means computations that require more 'random' communication between nodes can speed up. I suppose that's definitely worth pursuing for the more fine-grain computation where communication bandwitdh is the bottleneck.