They say "for the price of one U.S: engineer, I can have four engineers in (India, China, Argentina, for that matter).
If the things those overseas engineers suck, or need 4x more people, they add more cheap engineers.
People with MBAs haven´t read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
FC
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:31 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
> i didnt' get the impression he was a software dev, but i was impatient
> reading the long rant. hard to feel sorry about a guy who had a chip on his
> shoulder forever, wants to make money off the military-industrial complex,
> and then doesn't want to pay the taxes that everyone else does to make the
> MIC his great cow teat in the sky. feh. he kept talking about engineering.
> the way he said "real engineering" made me think he wasn't doing software -
> since "real" engineers like to disparage software dev as an interloper on
> the older engineering fields.
>
> i dislike those articles about the decline of skills in the u.s.. like
> Friedman running around bleating about the loss of jobs to India, etc. it's
> a silly scare-tactic and it buy right into the whole thing: "Omigod! Omigod!
> We are not gonna be number 1 anymore. Omigod! Omigod! The horror! The
> terror! Someone might be better than we are!"
>
> At 04:44 AM 2/19/2010, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
>
> http://stallman.org/articles/texas.html Poor Texas, it gets no love from
>> those cranky software developers, even the likable Santa Claus of the
>> software world, Richard Stallman doesn´t like ´em<
>> http://stallman.org/articles/texas.html>... He should have tried China or
>> India, if one believes the results of a study published on Informationwek...
>> *
>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/disaster_recovery/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222900188*which says the US of A is losing its tech edge... confirming rivers of ink
>> warning of the flight of engineering jobs to Asia... FC
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