Simply not true. Many firms are finding that the time and cultural differences between India in particular and the US lead to all kinds of issues. South America may eventually be a big player in this, but for now, the trend is towards "rural outsourcing" - hiring developers in lower-cost-of-living parts of the country.
No matter what, though, you can only outsource certain things. There will always be a place for the top-end, expert developer. Its the code monkeys that will be out of a job.
I think you're dead on. I had serious issues coping in college, and these days, I believe I am what you call a "socially-functional" case.
I have bordered on schizophrenia in the past - I have felt my own thoughts race and become uncontrollable, and turn to topics that didn't seem to follow (as if someone else was in control). In my case, I knew that could not be the case, and held tightly the idea that it was a chemical issue. Over time, and with the help of medication (Lexapro and Abilify, for the curious), I learned to stop those lines of thought before they got out of control.
I hate being wrong - I've learned to deal with it in a professional capacity largely by disconnecting my internal dialogue and my external presence. I may be raging or crawling under the table inside, but as long as I focus on maintaining a professional composure on the outside, I can simply wait it out.
When I was very young, I remember getting sheets of stickers and not using them, because I couldn't bear the thought of a full sheet with one missing - so I never used the first one. If I was given a half sheet, there would be stickers all over the house;)
I'm willing to talk about it if anyone is interested. I can honestly say that managing this has been the greatest challenge in my life so far. I still live with the financial consequences of my actions when I was not yet in control, so it is a bit of an emotional trigger, but I'm happy to do so if it could help someone else live through the same type of thing.
Note that I never claimed that apartheid was just - it wasn't. I did say that governance based on race cannot work, in either direction.
I believe apartheid should have been ended, but not in the way it was. The difference is, the former governments of both of those countries were by and large productive, while the new system is not. The change, as it was made, was a loss for all parties involved.
South Africa and Rhodesia both had a non-nativist minority government. It so happens that both were governed by whites. The West decided that this was wrong, and to "empower" the (African) majority.
You cannot govern based on race, and that cuts both ways. The standard of living for both countries was much higher - for everyone - when the people who had a stake in government were the ones voting.
The same thing is happening to America now, but more slowly. We have created a "welfare class" that has none of the responsibilities of government - yet they have the same say as those who are responsible for the burden. It doesn't matter to them if they vote in trillions of dollars of deficit spending - they won't have to pay it, after all.
The people who pay the bills, and whom government affect, should be the ones with the voice in government. If you try to raise the millage in a county, if you don't pay property tax, you shouldn't get a say. Likewise, in both Rhodesia and SA, by and large the native population lived below the poverty line, and did not contribute nor directly benefit from government.
Forcefully taking power from a productive group and giving it to a non-productive group is not "empowerment", it is theft. The West stole the prosperity of both Rhodesia and South Africa, in the name of "empowerment".
I have friends who were forced to flee both of these countries. One is a man from South Africa whose family owned and worked a plot of land there for five generations. One of his daughters was killed, his wife was raped, and his family's land was confiscated by force of arms.
Want another example? Zimbabwe. It was once named Rhodesia, and was the largest single producer of wheat and other foodstuffs in Africa. But hey, we got rid of those evil white corporatists, and now a loaf of bread there is a trillion dollars. Their currency has an expiration date, for God's sake.
South Africa is on the same path, its just not had time to go as far down it. In 20 years, it will be a wasteland.
But you just go ahead and live in your little world of black and white. I suppose it never occured to you that blacks were not allowed to participate in government because they were largely non-participitory.
I believe Ohio has reciprocity with Florida, but i'd have to check. I've not traveled through there recently - I mean, seriously, WTF is there in Ohio?
I've been posting cloud-hosted proxies for a few days now, and I've not bothered covering up my contact info. Can you imagine what a couple of dead Iranians in rural Arkansas, outside the house of someone verifiably helping Iranians communicate would do to their cause?
I've had a couple of offers to join the *nix sysadmin team at work - I just mentioned to the right people that I *did* Linux, and then made friends with a couple of the current sysadmins. I use ArchLinux at home, and whenever I did something cool, I'm drop by their desk and show it off.
I don't want to be a sysadmin, though - I just like to talk about Linux. I'm perfectly happy where I am now, which is business-side web development. I get to solve my own problems most of the time, and I don't have to deal with the hassle that is SOX and IT code review. Plus, after getting to know the sysadmins, they know I'm not going to break the system, and I ended up with root access on my development and prod boxes.
In short - focus on the part of the job you like. Gain more responsibility in that area, and talk about it a lot to people who are already doing it. In time, you can change your own job description, even if you don't get a change in title.
I used Opera for a while, then moved to Chrome when it came out. Opera is too "feature-complete". I want fast and light, and Opera 9.5 felt bulky. Their new default theme didn't help that impression, either.
For one thing, there is a Javascript file that hacks in support for specific sites. If something like CNN.com is broken, they create a one-off fix for that specific issue.
Seems like a nightmare to me, but it evidently works for them.
I disagree. Its not that difficult to rent a VM somewhere in a datacenter. If there is demand for this, you could easily whip up a hosting plan and a browser plugin that would quickly sync things when you needed to.
I just don't see the need for a home user to ever serve web content. Binary file sharing, yes, but not web content.
Not enough data - if 80% of your target market lived down dirt roads, and 80% of your business was from people down dirt roads, no conclusion may be drawn.
I've been thinking about building a Dasher input device for a long time - I'm thinking of a joystick with a 8" or so LCD to display Dasher. Running Linux, with USB, VGA, and even component video ports to attach to other display devices.
The advantage being, you could use this on multiple systems, without installing hardware. Let the device send standard keyboard codes, and handle the Dasher software inside the device.
When you make loan funding available to colleges, they loosen lending standards for student aid. That allows more people to apply for enrollment, which in turn allows the colleges to charge more for tuition and still fill their Freshman class.
Making money available for college is the cause of the problem, not the solution.
I dropped out of college in '03 because I was a moron, and eventually got a good job at a Fortune 100 company. Now I'm wanting to go back, but I don't think I could subject myself to any of the programming curricula around here - its all.NET or Java.
I'd love to see an online college that offered a F/OSS programming degree. Maybe start in C, then move to Common Lisp, then Python and Javascript. I'd take that in a heartbeat. As-is, I'm thinking of going for art or something, and stay as far away from their IT drones as possible.
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Simply not true. Many firms are finding that the time and cultural differences between India in particular and the US lead to all kinds of issues. South America may eventually be a big player in this, but for now, the trend is towards "rural outsourcing" - hiring developers in lower-cost-of-living parts of the country.
No matter what, though, you can only outsource certain things. There will always be a place for the top-end, expert developer. Its the code monkeys that will be out of a job.
I think you're dead on. I had serious issues coping in college, and these days, I believe I am what you call a "socially-functional" case.
I have bordered on schizophrenia in the past - I have felt my own thoughts race and become uncontrollable, and turn to topics that didn't seem to follow (as if someone else was in control). In my case, I knew that could not be the case, and held tightly the idea that it was a chemical issue. Over time, and with the help of medication (Lexapro and Abilify, for the curious), I learned to stop those lines of thought before they got out of control.
I hate being wrong - I've learned to deal with it in a professional capacity largely by disconnecting my internal dialogue and my external presence. I may be raging or crawling under the table inside, but as long as I focus on maintaining a professional composure on the outside, I can simply wait it out.
When I was very young, I remember getting sheets of stickers and not using them, because I couldn't bear the thought of a full sheet with one missing - so I never used the first one. If I was given a half sheet, there would be stickers all over the house ;)
I'm willing to talk about it if anyone is interested. I can honestly say that managing this has been the greatest challenge in my life so far. I still live with the financial consequences of my actions when I was not yet in control, so it is a bit of an emotional trigger, but I'm happy to do so if it could help someone else live through the same type of thing.
No, not really. Most of us just remap the keys how we want them. It has the added bonus of confusing people trying to use out terminals.
If the origin of the word is from an old LISP machine, shouldn't it be the "Thuper Key"?
So what happened from 1940 to 1980?
Note that I never claimed that apartheid was just - it wasn't. I did say that governance based on race cannot work, in either direction.
I believe apartheid should have been ended, but not in the way it was. The difference is, the former governments of both of those countries were by and large productive, while the new system is not. The change, as it was made, was a loss for all parties involved.
I would gladly have my vote public. Then again, I have a 5' Gadsden flag hanging off my front porch, so you could probably have worked it out :)
South Africa and Rhodesia both had a non-nativist minority government. It so happens that both were governed by whites. The West decided that this was wrong, and to "empower" the (African) majority.
You cannot govern based on race, and that cuts both ways. The standard of living for both countries was much higher - for everyone - when the people who had a stake in government were the ones voting.
The same thing is happening to America now, but more slowly. We have created a "welfare class" that has none of the responsibilities of government - yet they have the same say as those who are responsible for the burden. It doesn't matter to them if they vote in trillions of dollars of deficit spending - they won't have to pay it, after all.
The people who pay the bills, and whom government affect, should be the ones with the voice in government. If you try to raise the millage in a county, if you don't pay property tax, you shouldn't get a say. Likewise, in both Rhodesia and SA, by and large the native population lived below the poverty line, and did not contribute nor directly benefit from government.
Forcefully taking power from a productive group and giving it to a non-productive group is not "empowerment", it is theft. The West stole the prosperity of both Rhodesia and South Africa, in the name of "empowerment".
I have friends who were forced to flee both of these countries. One is a man from South Africa whose family owned and worked a plot of land there for five generations. One of his daughters was killed, his wife was raped, and his family's land was confiscated by force of arms.
Your "empowerment" buzzword doesn't scare me.
South Africa is hardly a success story.
Want another example? Zimbabwe. It was once named Rhodesia, and was the largest single producer of wheat and other foodstuffs in Africa. But hey, we got rid of those evil white corporatists, and now a loaf of bread there is a trillion dollars. Their currency has an expiration date, for God's sake.
South Africa is on the same path, its just not had time to go as far down it. In 20 years, it will be a wasteland.
But you just go ahead and live in your little world of black and white. I suppose it never occured to you that blacks were not allowed to participate in government because they were largely non-participitory.
I believe Ohio has reciprocity with Florida, but i'd have to check. I've not traveled through there recently - I mean, seriously, WTF is there in Ohio?
I've been posting cloud-hosted proxies for a few days now, and I've not bothered covering up my contact info. Can you imagine what a couple of dead Iranians in rural Arkansas, outside the house of someone verifiably helping Iranians communicate would do to their cause?
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
-Ghandi
I've had a couple of offers to join the *nix sysadmin team at work - I just mentioned to the right people that I *did* Linux, and then made friends with a couple of the current sysadmins. I use ArchLinux at home, and whenever I did something cool, I'm drop by their desk and show it off.
I don't want to be a sysadmin, though - I just like to talk about Linux. I'm perfectly happy where I am now, which is business-side web development. I get to solve my own problems most of the time, and I don't have to deal with the hassle that is SOX and IT code review. Plus, after getting to know the sysadmins, they know I'm not going to break the system, and I ended up with root access on my development and prod boxes.
In short - focus on the part of the job you like. Gain more responsibility in that area, and talk about it a lot to people who are already doing it. In time, you can change your own job description, even if you don't get a change in title.
I used Opera for a while, then moved to Chrome when it came out. Opera is too "feature-complete". I want fast and light, and Opera 9.5 felt bulky. Their new default theme didn't help that impression, either.
For one thing, there is a Javascript file that hacks in support for specific sites. If something like CNN.com is broken, they create a one-off fix for that specific issue.
Seems like a nightmare to me, but it evidently works for them.
I disagree. Its not that difficult to rent a VM somewhere in a datacenter. If there is demand for this, you could easily whip up a hosting plan and a browser plugin that would quickly sync things when you needed to.
I just don't see the need for a home user to ever serve web content. Binary file sharing, yes, but not web content.
Not enough data - if 80% of your target market lived down dirt roads, and 80% of your business was from people down dirt roads, no conclusion may be drawn.
Oh, how I wish I had mod points.
I've been thinking about building a Dasher input device for a long time - I'm thinking of a joystick with a 8" or so LCD to display Dasher. Running Linux, with USB, VGA, and even component video ports to attach to other display devices.
The advantage being, you could use this on multiple systems, without installing hardware. Let the device send standard keyboard codes, and handle the Dasher software inside the device.
Interesting. I'm starting up a blog now - that won't be abandoned - and its nice to see some stats.
How many hits / month do you get?
But its not true - there are some people who, by their own choices and actions, are genuinely worthless.
Interesting - I was actually at the Gleacher Center last week. I'll check to see if they have an online program that I could take from Arkansas.
When you make loan funding available to colleges, they loosen lending standards for student aid. That allows more people to apply for enrollment, which in turn allows the colleges to charge more for tuition and still fill their Freshman class.
Making money available for college is the cause of the problem, not the solution.
I dropped out of college in '03 because I was a moron, and eventually got a good job at a Fortune 100 company. Now I'm wanting to go back, but I don't think I could subject myself to any of the programming curricula around here - its all .NET or Java.
I'd love to see an online college that offered a F/OSS programming degree. Maybe start in C, then move to Common Lisp, then Python and Javascript. I'd take that in a heartbeat. As-is, I'm thinking of going for art or something, and stay as far away from their IT drones as possible.
As a shareholder, this is a great move. If this saves MS money, it puts more money in my pocket.