Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In

Re:Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In by canes123456 on Friday December 26, 2014 @06:23PM (#8800914)

As an above average, but not great, USA born programmer, I say bring as many programmers as possible to the USA. Great one create can help create the new Google, Uber, etc which than create more jobs. More above average makes software companies more effective over all. There are a ton of horrible "programmers" that are net negatives that bring down the average for a whole IT department.

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Re:Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In by droopyEyelids on Saturday December 27, 2014 @02:16AM (#8801946)

I don't know if you're making a tongue in cheek argument or not, but currently an enormous portion of the tech immigrants come to America to work as cogs in consulting companies or MegaCorporations.

And there isn't any precise way to pick the people who are going to start the next Google- except for the people who already run successful businesses and therefore have the money and influence to emigrate if they wanted to anyway.

So yes, it'd be cool to have all the Job Creators come to America so we could work in their companies, but I see no evidence that would happen.

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Re:Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In by canes123456 on Saturday December 27, 2014 @11:22AM (#8802962)

I am saying to let everyone in from the best to mediocre.

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