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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by zozbot234 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:54AM (#27592438)
> People told me everything would be outsourced to India

I'm not sure that this ever amounted to more than a urban legend. When you actually looked into the supposed outsourcing "trend", all you heard about was TheDailyWTF-grade horror stories.

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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by mikestew on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:12PM (#27595082)
I'm not sure that this ever amounted to more than a urban legend.

Urban legend? Entire books were written on the subject, by respected authors, too:

https://www.amazon.com/Decline-American-Programmer-Edward-Yo...

The book is not only pushing 30 years old, it was crap when I bought it in hardcover in '93, and whoo boy, did that one not age well.

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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:37PM (#27596165)
I don't know about the US but in the UK a lot of corporate development (Java type stuff) has been outsourced, often to India.
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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by embeddTrway690 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @12:55PM (#27594113)
Now In India, students starting CS are often told "CS has no longer demand" in recent years.

The problem was too many people entering engineering degrees after a temporary 'IT boom' decades ago, seeing that as a way towards upwards social mobility.

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