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Sure, "more work" if you measure in man hours; but when you actually go to use the code and find that it won't compile because the Indian coders who wrote it di
by DarkShikari 18y ago
Sure, "more work" if you measure in man hours; but when you actually go to use the code and find that it won't compile because the Indian coders who wrote it didn't even have computers, and wrote the entire application down on paper and paid to have it typed, you realize you wasted your time and money.
Outsourcing is no different from hiring regular programmers; if you wouldn't hire the people you're outsourcing to, why in the world would you trust them to do a good job?
True story, by the way.
- pfedor 18y agoIf the results of outsourcing were so bad you all guys wouldn't be so worked up about it. The truth is, the person you answered (currently downmodded to -1) made an excellent point. People who protest against outsourcing are no different from the workers long ago, when the companies first started using machines to perform tasks previously done by physical labor. The workers then went on strikes, were destroying the machines etc.
- johntabet 18y agoNot necessarily a great analogy. I think you are trying to liken cheap, possibly underpaid, labor to machines and factories. While I think that it is entirely possible that cheap Indian (or other) labor could replace more expensive American labor, I don't think low paid labor is exactly the next generation of technology. Something about likening cheap human labor to convenient innovations in technology just doesn't strike me as right.
- stcredzero 18y ago[Citation Needed]
- DarkShikari 18y agoIt was a DailyWTF a while back, I believe.