RE: OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-24 Thread Jim Bufalini
: Computer Science in today's market Jim Hurley wrote: Thought some of you might be interested in this article from the NYT on Computer Science as a major in today's world of technology and the problems with off-shoring of programming jobs. TECHNOLOGY | August 23, 2005 http

Re: OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Bufalini wrote: Several years ago I had a company that outsourced to India. You can't leave anything to the imagination in the spec. If you do it's guaranteed to come back wrong. And there are cultural differences to deal with that effect the software. For example, making requests to

Re: OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Shafer
My guess is that this is old data. Funny, but old. I know several companies that outsource fairly complicated software projects that do involve relatively rich UIs and they report consistently good results from their outsourcing partners. In the early days of outsourcing, there was a lot

Re: OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Bufalini wrote: Several years ago I had a company that outsourced to India. You can't leave anything to the imagination in the spec. If you do it's guaranteed to come back wrong. And there are cultural differences to

RE: OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-24 Thread Jim Bufalini
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Shafer Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:10 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: OT: Computer Science in today's market My guess is that this is old data. Funny, but old. I know several companies that outsource fairly complicated software projects that do

Re: OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Shafer
:10 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: OT: Computer Science in today's market My guess is that this is old data. Funny, but old. I know several companies that outsource fairly complicated software projects that do involve relatively rich UIs and they report consistently good results from

OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-23 Thread Jim Hurley
Thought some of you might be interested in this article from the NYT on Computer Science as a major in today's world of technology and the problems with off-shoring of programming jobs. TECHNOLOGY | August 23, 2005

Re: OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Hurley wrote: Thought some of you might be interested in this article from the NYT on Computer Science as a major in today's world of technology and the problems with off-shoring of programming jobs. TECHNOLOGY | August 23, 2005

Re: [OT]: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Richard and all, Le 23 août 05 à 22:43, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Software design is more about workflow than algorithms, more about people than machines. I do agree a thousand times. More, I think that a good idea, right ergonomics and design are 80% of any software value. The rest

Re: OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-23 Thread Mark Talluto
On Aug 23, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: Thought some of you might be interested in this article from the NYT on Computer Science as a major in today's world of technology and the problems with off-shoring of programming jobs. TECHNOLOGY | August 23, 2005

Re: OT: Computer Science in today's market

2005-08-23 Thread Judy Perry
You do? You're kidding, right? ;-) At least, that _would be_ the response if made by any of my CS major students :( Judy On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote: I don't know about the rest of you folks, but I spend more time doing requirements analysis and design than coding. Those