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Future Ada Lovelace eh? I somehow doubt that very much.
Ada Lovelace was a total fox. Would love to simplify her boolean expressions….hehehe
Cool. The HP-85A was potable! Wonder what it was made of.
I think I’m paying my Indian programmer way too much.
They might be outpaced by indian programmers? Yeah probably not…
When people get tired of dealing with programmers from other countries constantly giving them troubles they open their checkbook and call me…
If you like programs that don’t work but are cheap then its the way to go…
And lol @Dirty Jake
Big Ben – That is often true, but then they still outsource the tech support to India because it’s cheap. Then you have people who don’t know the program, or the language well, offering support on the software, and then the programmer gets the blame for it not being user friendly enough or accused of making a program that doesn’t work because the support can’t say anything past “Did you try turning it off and on again?”
Actually, the “outsourcing” of services to India from the US has gotten worse. There is a new twist to the game that allows the Indians to work on site in the US, but paid and treated like their are in India.
American company “ABC Widgets” contracts with Indian firm “SlaveWage Support” for IT development and support services. “SlaveWage Supports” wins the contract by paying slave wages to native Indians.
Next. “SlaveWage Support” gets 3 month visas for their Indian staff to come over to the US to support their client. They don’t need green cards, H1B Visas, or anything special. It is no different than a US citizen being sent overseas on a business trip to visit a client. Just a routine business trip visa. Nothing to it.
Next. “SlaveWage Support” packs all their employees, who are always 20 something Indian males, into one apartment to save money while “visiting” the US. They then rotate out the staff every 90 days, just before their individual visitors visa expires.
This lets them keep a pool of on site support staff with their US client. Yet they don’t have to pay US wages, or comply with US labor laws. Their only major expense is airfare, which isn’t that much when you consider how much they are undercutting the US labor market.
Ask the laid off employees of Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati how this works. Hell, they had to train their Indian “visitor” replacements before they were given their pink slips.