U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? 1361
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CommanderData writes "USA Today reports that US Programmers are an 'Endangered Species' and expects them to be 'extinct' within the next few years, replaced by offshoring and H-1B visa holders. They suggest people will manage overseas projects, become self-employed, or switch to other fields. What do my fellow code-dinosaurs plan to do before the asteroid hits?" A report on Newsforge (which is part of OSTG along with Slashdot) shows the flip side of the coin.
Asteroid (Score:1, Funny)
Endangered Species? (Score:5, Funny)
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Saving the species.. (Score:5, Funny)
Wal-Mart (Score:5, Funny)
I'd... (Score:1, Funny)
Well, according to the last debate... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Programming versus Software Engineering (Score:5, Funny)
I am claiming asylum in india based on the fact that every nerd has the right to hack code and eat curry!
Cockroaches never die (Score:2, Funny)
if we had to pick (Score:3, Funny)
How to get famous (Score:3, Funny)
If offshoring is cheaper than in-house... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well, according to the last debate... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Endangered Species? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:if we had to pick (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Language issue (Score:5, Funny)
The language issue is that Indian programmers can, by and large, read and write English. Something that consistent readers of Slashdot will find American programmers are incapable of.
Re:Programming versus Software Engineering (Score:5, Funny)
From what I've seen, most people cannot design a program even if they have written code.
TZ
Re:Wal-Mart (Score:5, Funny)
Since you won't have a job anyway, (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well, according to the last debate... (Score:4, Funny)
I checked, my community colledge didn't have a course in getting jobs from my daddies rich friends. Seems only the schools in Texas have that.
Re:Saving the species.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Language issue (Score:2, Funny)
Don't end a sentence with a preposition.
Signed,
American Programmer
Re:Programming versus Software Engineering (Score:1, Funny)
Australia has plenty of Bruces, and England has plenty of Kevins.
Re:Whoa! Behind the times! (Score:4, Funny)
Taxes.
Glad I could help...
Re:Programming versus Software Engineering (Score:4, Funny)
close. I'd say Cheney is Dark Vader, and Bush is Jar Jar Binks.
Re:Well, according to the last debate... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This shouldn't be modded funny (Score:3, Funny)
You should not expect that six-digit IT job. You should not expect to go to a Brand Name school. You should not expect your children to grow up in a world where there are trees. The world does not owe you these things. You must simply lower your expectations. The Party expects you to do so.
Re:Other fields (Score:3, Funny)
Somehow I doubt people will enjoy them.
Re:Programming versus Software Engineering (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I don't think so. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Programming versus Software Engineering (Score:1, Funny)
And Kerry looks like Lurch. Ha ha ha ha ha. +4, Funny, right? No? Oh, right, this is Slashdot.
Re:I won't be extinct (Score:3, Funny)
There's no way my job or our work will ever be outsourced.
Gimme a minute to go grab my "famous last words" notebook... Ok, got it. Let's see... Hmmm, let me scroll down through the list...
- "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
- "No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris." -- Orville Wright.
- "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
- "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
Ah, here's a spot for you in the "Engineering quotes" section. I'll put it right next to the one from that guy who built the Titanic. Tee hee.I think that what's truly funny about statements like this is that every time, the originator of such a statement is trying to convince himself more than his audience.
Re:Well, according to the last debate... (Score:3, Funny)
Pot, meet Kettle.
Re:Endangered Species? (Score:5, Funny)
"We were so sure then that we would succeed," said lead researcher Bob Bobertson. "For a week we fed him nothing but oysters and Jolt cola." While the introduction of supermodel Heidi Klum to his cage did excite Joe, he still failed to perform in front of a live female, prefering instead the security of his computer monitor.
"This year we're trying a new approach," said Bobertson. "We hired a hooker to dress up as a penguin."
Re:Another indian posing as a 'westerner' (Score:3, Funny)
It's good that you didn't refer your employer by name. I'm sure no one will figure out what company you're discussing.
Re:Programming versus Software Engineering (Score:1, Funny)
Let's assume that only the best of the best of other countries come to these institutions. Then the following cases arise: 1. These institutions do admit the best of the best of their own country or 2. They don't.
If 1 is true then students of other countries are better than the best of the best of USA.
If 2 is true then these institutions don't attract the best of the best and are teaching only average or less than average students. This means that average and less than average students of other countries are better than average and less than average students of USA.
But if this is true then it means that the best of other countries are obviously better than best of USA. Because how you determine best is determined by how you determine average.
Further, average students of other countries would be classed as bright students in USA.
Choose the case that suits you.
Re:Well, according to the last debate... (Score:1, Funny)
Don't use computers (Score:3, Funny)
When it was put into production, it caused people to get laid off too.
So don't use computers or web ordering. Get on the phone and place your orders with a real person.
Or you might cause them to be laid off too.
Oh, by the way. I got laid off of that job too. Maybe it was karma.
Maybe as programmers we should implement systems that make things take more time instead of less.
Re:Language issue (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Programming versus Software Engineering (Score:2, Funny)
In Other News... (Score:3, Funny)