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IT Worker Shortages Everywhere 480

Vicissidude writes with news from the IT front in India: "The software industry body Nasscom has warned that India faces a shortfall of half a million skilled workers by 2010. The country will need 350,000 engineers a year, but no more than 150,000 of the most highly skilled engineers will be available each year." This shortfall is fueling a new development, the exporting of Indian tech jobs to the US. But will there be workers in the US to do those jobs? Reader Jadeite2 writes with a word from Bill Gates, speaking to a business forum in Moscow, who said: "There is a shortage of IT skills on a worldwide basis. Anybody who can get those skills here now will have a lot of opportunity."

Comment Re:User Interface Design for Programmers (Score 1) 355

Nine items in a selection as a rule falls short when you have to choose from a list of cities, states or even countries...

The 7 +/- 2 items probably comes from a test where 7 unrelated things are tested, for example pictures shown in succession: tennisball, turkey, car, house, waterfall, calculator and pretty girl.
After the picture of the pretty girl most guys memories break down and forget the rest.

But if you need a certain phonenumber you can happilly search for the one entry you need among the thousands that are available in the directory.

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