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Re:Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987) by ayngg on Monday July 05, 2021 @02:38AM (#27735197)
I went to university a couple years after that and also felt a similar sentiment that it was basically too late to get in on a good career before the industry got outsourced.

Of course then social media happened and everyone and their grandma needed developers so it didn't matter that people were flooding in because there simply wasn't enough labor to go around.

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Re:Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987) by heurisko on Monday July 05, 2021 @03:08AM (#27735336)
I think there are also qualitative reasons why outsourcing didn't prove as successful as many companies thought.

One being, that business requirements are often complex, and contain ambiguity, which requires communication between developers and the business, which is hampered by differences in timezones and culture.

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