It's not outsourcing that took your job, it's the US government. The us government subsidizes cheap tech labor for the wealthy through use of the 65,000+ H-1B visas it issues to flood the market with people like you. American's can compete against the Indians, they just can't compete against their own government.
My wife was here on an H-1B visa. Believe me when I say that she worked for 50% of what her co-workers were paid and she would have worked for much less because staying in America is important to her just like it is important to all the immigrants/guest workers in this country. Working for 25% of an American's wage is still better than working for $1.24 per hour in her native country or worse, not working at all.
Hey Hans,
I dig the file system. The other day I lost power on all my boxes. My linux boxes came back up unscathed. My Windows box came back up with "Unable to load local profile. It may be corrupt."
Anyway, send you resume to Microsoft. You would be doing us all a favor.
Most countries that don't call Texas one of their states know the difference between a national ID and a driver's license. Driving has nothing to do with identifying you as a citizen. We already have national IDs, they're called passports. If you want to force everyone to get one, that's fine, but don't tie two unrelated things together. In the IT world it would equate to not knowing the difference between authentication and authorization.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscien ce/brookhaven_destruction.html
Scientists creat a state of matter that is more stable than all other matter in the universe, causing everything else to colapse into it. That would be a bad thing.
I purchased an Ultra160 setup a while back with 15k RPM Cheetas. The machine is only a Dual athlon 2100, but because of the SCSI setup, it flies. The disks were cheap because they're tiny (18 GB). But if I need to store large files, I dump them on my Linux box with the 210 GB RAID-5 setup. Nothing beats SCSI + dual CPUs.
The billrate is my design. If I can pocket $70/hr doing UML, while some punk jockey H-1B coder monkey gets $20/hr for implementing my design, I'm pretty happy about that.
I design, the H-1B codes, one year later I move on while the team gets outsourced to India.
Now that's some good advice right there. Also, don't be afraid to lie: Clients lie to you, employers lie to you. You might as well lie to them. You don't really have a Harvard degree? Who cares, they didn't tell you they're planning on outsourcing you. 15 years of C#? I got that too.
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Just as fast, cleaner, less code. I wish more developers had the capability to understand the STL.
Marilyn Vos Savant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant
It's not outsourcing that took your job, it's the US government. The us government subsidizes cheap tech labor for the wealthy through use of the 65,000+ H-1B visas it issues to flood the market with people like you. American's can compete against the Indians, they just can't compete against their own government.
My wife was here on an H-1B visa. Believe me when I say that she worked for 50% of what her co-workers were paid and she would have worked for much less because staying in America is important to her just like it is important to all the immigrants/guest workers in this country. Working for 25% of an American's wage is still better than working for $1.24 per hour in her native country or worse, not working at all.
Hey Hans, I dig the file system. The other day I lost power on all my boxes. My linux boxes came back up unscathed. My Windows box came back up with "Unable to load local profile. It may be corrupt." Anyway, send you resume to Microsoft. You would be doing us all a favor.
I'm not sure why you would want those. I kid, I kid.
You heard me. My announcement is just as "official" as the the top poster.
If your foreign language department offers Hindi, I really recommend it.
I must have read that wrong.
hmmm, rare rodent species...
Most countries that don't call Texas one of their states know the difference between a national ID and a driver's license. Driving has nothing to do with identifying you as a citizen. We already have national IDs, they're called passports. If you want to force everyone to get one, that's fine, but don't tie two unrelated things together. In the IT world it would equate to not knowing the difference between authentication and authorization.
A Lunar death ray has the element of surprise.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscien ce/brookhaven_destruction.html
Scientists creat a state of matter that is more stable than all other matter in the universe, causing everything else to colapse into it. That would be a bad thing.
If you're architecting .NET solutions today, I advise you to abstract or avoid .NET remoting. It will disappear.
I imagine that 20,000 government subsidized IT people taking jobs at lower salaries will have an impact
I purchased an Ultra160 setup a while back with 15k RPM Cheetas. The machine is only a Dual athlon 2100, but because of the SCSI setup, it flies. The disks were cheap because they're tiny (18 GB). But if I need to store large files, I dump them on my Linux box with the 210 GB RAID-5 setup. Nothing beats SCSI + dual CPUs.
That is some insightful hillarity!
Texans can't write.
I assure you, no executive is reading Slashdot!
He's a hacker with a lack of experience in projects outside his own. Ask him about contemporary ideas such as OO and the guy is clueless.
The billrate is my design. If I can pocket $70/hr doing UML, while some punk jockey H-1B coder monkey gets $20/hr for implementing my design, I'm pretty happy about that. I design, the H-1B codes, one year later I move on while the team gets outsourced to India.
Now that's some good advice right there. Also, don't be afraid to lie: Clients lie to you, employers lie to you. You might as well lie to them. You don't really have a Harvard degree? Who cares, they didn't tell you they're planning on outsourcing you. 15 years of C#? I got that too.