Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
by sooheon on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:06AM
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Agree with a lot of this except the claim that professionals dwell only on certain shores.
Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
by KUcxrAVrtI on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:23AM
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Reality disagrees. If software development could be done in India, Ukraine or whatever your preferred third world country is it would be getting done there already.
There's a reason why developers move to one of a handful of cities to be productive.
Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
by zzzcpan on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:14AM
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It is already done in India and Ukraine. In Ukraine alone there are like 150k+ software developers.
Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
by gurkendoktor on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:20AM
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If you lived in a $9/h region and had excellent development skills, why wouldn't you move to a $90/h region?
Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
by shardinator on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:49AM
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Because the $90/hr regions won’t let you.
Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
by gurkendoktor on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:51AM
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Fair enough. Not everyone will leave their family behind, not everyone will get a visa. But the "rich shores" have a massive statistical advantage in terms of talent because they attract skilled people from abroad, with little migration in the other direction:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/37-percent-of-silicon-val...
Fortunately for us programming has been and always will be about the transformation of text into other text with a context sensitive grammar. Something that can't be automated and will always fail. Usually with people dying as the catalyst for on-shoring jobs again.