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Comment: Outsource != Offshore (Score 1) 403

by Homr Zodyssey (#40031217) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea?

I work as a consultant through a consulting firm. Sometimes I'm in a "staffing position" where I go work onsite at a client and sometimes I work with our internal "Development Center" for projects that have been farmed out to us. We are all American and we have people all over the country -- many working remotely. We provide top-notch work and we often have clients ask us back for new projects. And, we're not cheap. Some of our clients give us restricted access to their source control. For some projects we host the source control. We can provide project management services if necessary. You can pretty much have as tight or loose of control as you want. Our clients are happy with this work.

I have also worked at several places (previous to this job) where work was sent to another country. I've been involved with at least 5 projects where that happened. IT NEVER WORKS OUT. On three of those projects, I was brought in specifically to fix code that was written (poorly) by coders in other countries.

So, like the others said. You get what you pay for. And paying for cheap workers in other countries is never worth it.

Comment: Re:The most important lesson in life being taught (Score 1) 663

And he's pissed at that other woman's poo flinging to get free pills paid for by our tax dollars.

Obviously, you never heard what she actually said, only the lies that he made up about her. This whole thing was about PRIVATE INSURANCE not YOUR TAX DOLLARS. The only thing your tax dollars had to do with it was that they had to spend money having a second hearing because they refused to let any women speak at the first one.

Comment: Re:The most important lesson in life being taught (Score 1) 663

Being that you "went to university" and studied "maths", I assume you were not in the U.S. Most of this discussion has been around how broken the American system is.

That being said, I was not expected to simply do rote memorization or learn to the test in either my public High School or the small liberal arts college where I did my undergrad work. Of course, that was over a decade before No Child Left Behind...

Comment: Re:The most important lesson in life being taught (Score 1) 663

I'm so glad that you're not right. My son goes to a public Montessori school. They do not "teach to the test" nor does he learn things by "rote memorization".

The GP is absolutely correct, in that it takes a community to make a school. Hell, it takes a community to make a government. If your public school (or public library, or public park or public ANYTHING) sucks, then for gods sake, get off your lazy ass and fix it! It's PUBLIC! That means its as much yours as it is anyone else's! Take some responsibility for yourself and your community instead of blaming it on "the Man" or "the Government" or whomever your boogyman of choice is.

Personally, I still blame everything on Dick Cheney.

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