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Comment Re:Sliver Linings (Score 3, Insightful) 32

We would always meet with our offshore team in the morning. By end of our day we would ensure they had proper instructions and details of where we left off. In a way it made it feel like we had round-the-clock work being done.

Granted, this means there has to be very good leadership and communication being performed on both sides. And more times than not this is not the case. This is why people have bad views of offshore teams. But it is the companies involved (on both sides) that are the problem as they often put non-technical people to lead from onshore a group of offshore technical people. The communication is almost non-existent and confusion quickly sets in to the projects.

Comment Re:Russia lied? (Score 2, Interesting) 119

Ukraine says they lied. But Russia has been in development of such a weapon for a few years now. It being used in a battlefield situation actually isn't unlikely. They used their hypersonic missiles in combat just a few weeks back. Look at what the statement reads: they shot down a single drone after 5 seconds. That is feasible with current laser technologies as drones are generally lightweight and thus flimsy by design. The real tricky part is target tracking (have to keep it on target to a flying vehicle) and powering it.

So don't discount this as real. But I doubt it will be used in any real capacity or impact in this conflict. This was likely a single prototype that is very early in design.

Comment Google was once an innovator (Score 4, Interesting) 110

Nowadays it seems they are moving options around in their old products and calling them updates. And here we have them acting like some old white collar company with "butts in seats" so middle management has a job and executives can quietly collect their bonuses from their beach front property in some foreign country.

Microsoft seems more progressive.

Comment Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-a (Score 5, Insightful) 95

Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

"Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India."

Think of all the money they saved by outsourcing.

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