What does Bob do for cheap labour?

[CheeseSlice]

Can they do all codes?

Its pretty obvious they're testers.
Don't they all look like this?

[NickFitz]

I strongly suspect that they are vBulletin's lead developers

[aussielong]

So is that all development is these days, a sweatshop churning out code like cheap T-shirts or footballs?

Do we have many coders on here?

Yes, the trend is now to get something done quick then redo it in a few years time when it can't be maintained. It no longer takes 2 years to get to a first release. It's a miserable job these days, for most programmers.

[Doggy Styles]

So is that all development is these days, a sweatshop churning out code like cheap T-shirts or footballs?

Do we have many coders on here?

[aussielong]

Insourcing back to Oz

There is a company operating in Western Sydney that is run by a recent Indian migrant to Oz. He is also a taxi driver, that's how I met him. He picked me up outside the bank I work at and took me home one late night. He was asking me detailed questions about the internals of the JVM. He clearly knew quite a lot so I asked him a few questions. Turns out, he is subcontracting work from Indian outsourcing companies back into Australia. He is getting Indian students at Aussie uni's to do the coding. He then double checks the work and then the Indian outsourcers take it on. Eventually the software comes back to Australia no doubt.

[Sysman]

True story. I worked on putting a Mobile Phone Network into Calcutta in 1995. One of the things we suggested to the operator was that they fit some kind of security on their basesites to prevent theft etc.
At the first site we visited after that meeting we found that they had a bloke living in the cellsite with his mattress, brew kit etc.
Probably cheaper than fitting remote alarms I suppose.

I can vouch for the truth of this. At one third world site we had a security guard for the UPS room. The look on the faces of the labourers when they saw all those heavy duty batteries was enough to tell us it was a necessary precaution.

It's a very different economy when labour is so cheap. When thinking of building a swimming pool we Westerners think "Where can I rent a JCB?" In the third world you simply get a gang of shovel wielders in. Car transporters? Nah - hire a fleet of drivers.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Can they do all codes?

Proberbly better than me at the very least.

[DimPrawn]

Telegraph: Trained monkeys guard athletes at Commonwealth Games

Can they do all codes?

[shaunbhoy]

True story. I worked on putting a Mobile Phone Network into Calcutta in 1995. One of the things we suggested to the operator was that they fit some kind of security on their basesites to prevent theft etc.
At the first site we visited after that meeting we found that they had a bloke living in the cellsite with his mattress, brew kit etc.
Probably cheaper than fitting remote alarms I suppose.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Telegraph: Trained monkeys guard athletes at Commonwealth Games