Reply to: Indian developers

[scooterscot]

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Well at least sewage outflow comes as standard

[NotAllThere]

Wow! You put is so much better than I. Thanks.

[bogeyman]

Well - programming is a commodity, a semi-skilled job at best.

Oh yes. It's so easy that any retard could do it - and in fact, thousands of retards and cretins make a meager living from coding. It's true! I've actually seen them in huge herds working for EDS, Accenture et al.

They are like Wilderbeast, and the recruitment consultants are the lions, or something.

[oracleslave]

The little icon was supposed to indicate that I find this point of view highly annoying.

FWIW I am not a developer but was interested to hear you explain that point of view. Obviously I misunderstood your use of the icon.

[NotAllThere]

The little icon was supposed to indicate that I find this point of view highly annoying. It is prevalent amongst no-nothing dumbo managers. It is not one I agree with. A good programmer paid the same rate as an average programmer will be 20x better value for money. And 50x better than a bad programmer.

FWIW, yes, I am a developer and I'm very very good - I write robust, easily understandable, maintainable and flexible code at around three times the cost (per day) and around five times faster than my offshore colleagues. And my code works.

[oracleslave]

Well - programming is a commodity, a semi-skilled job at best. One programmer's pretty much the same as another, so it makes sense to off-shore.

Have you ever been a programmer and if yes were you any good?

[Diver]

That doesn't stop him being (or even looking) Welsh

Welsh dragon, Missy

[Tensai]

Well - programming is a commodity, a semi-skilled job at best.

I'm going to LOVE forwarding that quote to my developers

[NotAllThere]

But they ARE cheap as chips, which counts for a lot to beancounter types.

Well - programming is a commodity, a semi-skilled job at best. One programmer's pretty much the same as another, so it makes sense to off-shore.

[KathyWoolfe]

doesnt look Welsh

doesnt even look human to me

That doesn't stop him being (or even looking) Welsh

[EternalOptimist]

That's funny, you don't look Welsh ......

doesnt look Welsh

doesnt even look human to me

[bogeyman]

That's funny, you don't look Welsh ......

Obviously you've never been to Merthyr Tydil.

[KathyWoolfe]

When did we meet?

Was it in Cheltenham?

That's funny, you don't look Welsh ......

[Pickle2]

The ones I work with are acceptable.

Yep, best developer Ive worked with is Indian. Super smart lad.

The worst ive worked with was a welsh bloke. Speaks volumes.

[M_B]

The ones I work with are acceptable.

Certainly no worse than the cr@p IBM or A$$venture bodyshops with.