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You can make the same argument with software development. You can get people overseas to do it at cheaper price.
by j7ake 8y ago
You can make the same argument with software development. You can get people overseas to do it at cheaper price.
- vkou 8y agoIf software problems were as well-defined as lab glassware specs, that argument would hold some merit. Also, millions of engineer hours have been put into making the software equivalent of a glassblowing machine. No CS department employs an in-house 'Kernel writer' or 'TCP/IP Implementer'.
- jrochkind1 8y agoThe actual OP article suggests that lab glassware specs aren't as well-defined as you imply at all. > "You need a person who has some idea about the scientific process and how to translate what a student wants to do into a piece of apparatus that really works," said Bob Grubbs, a 2005 Nobel laureate in chemistry and professor at Caltech. "How do you get from a couple scratches on a piece of paper, to something you actually go use in a lab that you trust and is not going to blow acid in your face?" Doesn't mean those who hold the purse strings will pay for it. (Doesn't mean they'll pay for custom software either).