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That's just not true. For one you're not factoring in the cost to hire, monthly tax on that salary etc. I doubt a good developer earns less than 4k gross in say Paris.

My other problem with this line of thinking is this idea that you are getting less for that 4k than if you were to hire someone from the US. There are extremely capable people around the world with excellent communication skills and if you're looking at it with this attitude you will just miss out on this talent.
> They have a special "experience" designed around that.

This can happen in the US too: http://www.chevrolet.com/bowling-green-assembly-plant.html
I don't think he'd have hated them. I think he'd have loved the visualisations of all of his places and creatures (even if they didn't match his own imaginations) and been thrilled with the amount of story telling we could do with film now... and then been more than a little disappointed that Jackson put in so many sword fights and told so little story.
Except that would've been always true. So the "anymore" part is purely clickbait.

The truth is Outsourcing never worked. But it was cheap enough that it could have been considered a worthwhile attempt at cutting cost, even if it ended up costing more with re-writes it was justifiable.

Now, you can't justify even attempting it given the high risk of failure.
How do you plan to buy out all the existing investment these dealerships have? You certainly cannot legislate away their property without compensation. What about the jobs? That is no small number. With those go all the local taxes, benefits, and such as well.

Dealer direct, sounds good. Until you find out that car you really want has a demonstration center that is too far away, in a place you don't want to go. Until you find out repairs are done at an authorized shop that handles so many brands they cannot get it right. Until you have serious problems with your car and that manufacturer is so far away they can ignore you for a good amount of time... and so on.

While not everyone has a good experience at a dealer I have never had a bad one and considering the number of vehicles I have gone through, well. Dealers aren't there just to sell cars. They they maintain them, they work to keep you happy so you come back. This means they act as go between consumer and manufacturer and can often push the manufacturer to fix things they might just overlook.

Tesla is fine as it is now simply because they don't sell enough cars to matter, let alone to the majority of people their cars are not affordable and the customers who do buy have the time to go anywhere they need to to buy a car or even have someone go get it. When, and it is a very big when, Tesla has any real volume let us watch how they handle problems
That's a pretty broad generalization. The maintenance contracts I have in place with my clients incentivizes us to build software that doesn't break and requires minimal maintenance.
I went to the Sydney Morning Herald on my OS X box the other day, and found that after about 30 seconds I could no longer scroll up and down the article. Turns out they had some big interstitial ad that was blocking the down and up buttons. I had a look at the JavaScript running in the background and counted at least five trackers all running at once.

This has honestly now changed my behaviour. I've decided that the SMH is too slow for too little value for the already paucity of quality news and analysis it provides. Heck, I can't even post comments to their site any more - it all gets rejected after waiting in a moderation queue for ages. I cancelled my subscription and now I read my news from The Guardian Australia which has more content and better analysis, and certainly very few ads!

Goodbye SMH, you were an institution for so long, but your golden days are behind you and you are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
Current job: front end developer for a well-known mapping product (no, not that one), although my contract ends in a month.

Side projects: http://markdownnotes.com, and many, many others. I also write picture-rich articles about history: http://en.nicolasbouliane.com/blog/the-berlin-airlift
If that's the reason why outsourcing doesn't work, why employment does work? I think this is the flaw in the article.

Perhaps outsourcing and employment do work, but it's always better to hand the job to somebody from local culture or to your friend/family. At a higher price, though.
I see you are downvoted, but I had a laugh. It looks familiar. (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/01/f9/75/01f975659...)
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This guy has an agenda. He himself has patented some way of distributed remote teams and wants to kill enemy ideas.
Look for his weird idea of XDSD.
Shame to see them being so thrifty about rewards though. At least the ones that could well afford better.

(Or maybe he explicitly asked only for t-shirts?)
It takes Toyota 16 to 18 hours or so from start to finish on a car, with around 35 total man hours of labor put into each.

I think a custom vehicle ordered from a sales outlet, could be completed within 2 to 3 days, and shipped out, available to the customer within 7 to 10 days.

It would require pushing manufacturing forward in numerous ways, and retooling the entire process of making a car for this business model, but there's no reason that can't be done. It would already exist if the laws allowed for direct sales.
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Don't start a rat race.
I'm on 4G network, and with a not so bad mobile pone. Huawei P8 lite (2Gb Ram). If i have facebook and messenger apps running, I can't get one day of battery life. Don't really understand why there apps are so power intensive.
Just remove the protectionist support they have and then let the market have its way.
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As someone who spent several years as a solo freelancer/consultant, sometimes offshore, sometimes onshore.

The main reason this type of work is drying up, in my experience, is that there is too much free money flowing around. Why deal with a temporary worker when you can afford to hire them full-time and have them sit in your office?

Furthermore, full-time engineers add a lot more to your valuation than freelancers and consultants do. A client once told me that adding a consultant to their "full-time" force increases the company's valuation by $100,000, but a proper full-time engineer adds $1,000,000 to the valuation.

I'm not sure why, but if I had to guess I'd say it's a combination of a company showing clear signs of growth (more employees == growth), and the lower churn because of 4 year vesting plans.
You do realize that there are so many sources of low cost drugs that the one thing holding back many is that no one has really put effort in to gathering all that data and making it easily accessible to the public.

most grocery chains, warehouse chains, and big box retailers, have pharmacies, all with heavily discounted drugs and some are even free. Since many have insurance they don't feel the effect so the drug stores stay in business as some don't like the idea of going to the grocery store for their medicine.
Problem is not with outsourcing. Any product will fail if development not monitored properly whether its developed inhouse or outsourced

Take example of Outsourcing Success stories
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247462

· Slack: Now valued at nearly $3 billion, this company used outsourcing to develop its solution in its earliest days.
· Fab: This large startup partnered with developers in India to maximize funding while scaling up when their business showed signs of growth.
· Skype: They used a team of developers in Estonia to help them build out their business.
· Klout: To get its technology in the right place before launch, Klout relied on many outsourced developers

A lot of start-ups coming up with good ideas and quality products doing good in so called developing countries

Calculate Software revenue generated in developing countries, You have only showing negative side why you dont you write article about outsourcing guidelines?

what should they do use “Made in own country” Product strategy?
It already works for everyone except for people living in the US.
Yes, I wrote. I was a jerk. Now when I do have 60+ i don't even care.
I have hired Russian speaking devs (not firms) hourly and, after the initial hiring filter, about 60% were very productive and didnt want to bill for months for nothing. I worked with them personally, though.
Shouldn't you have a free market economy? Where a customer is able to choose between a dealer or a direct sale company?

The customer is the one that should be able to choose between a cheaper price with a lower service, or a higher price with more service. The problem here is that companies want to provide the cheap alternative but aren't allowed to do so.

If a dealer cannot compete with a direct sale company on price and service, doesn't that make their business model flawed/outdated.
The author isn't arguing to ban traditional dealerships; he's trying to remove state laws that mandate the bundling of sales, service, delivery, etc. together. If the traditional model makes sense in some places, it will continue. But given that no other consumer good is sold that way, it is likely that both producers and consumers will prefer an unbundled experience.
I can hire good local people an hour outside of London for that price.
I will add one more reason: with appearance of online outsourcing platforms, best developers flocked there as individuals (and that is the only way to really reliably make $4000 as a developer in Ukraine as far as i know). They don't have middlemen, which normally only get in the way by obscuring the communication, and easily beat any outsourcing shops (which don't do much valuable management anyway, just lease out workers). Because individual freelancers and offshore outsourcing companies' employees are doing the same work, only people who left with the agencies are those who are inept and know it - otherwise they'd go to Upwork themselves and get an instant 3x raise. So don't expect an agency to have good people...
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> Gaisler's stuff and RISC-V are best hope as they're both open hardware plus getting fast. Gaisler's are already quad-core with as much I.P. as people could ever use. Anyone wanting trustworthy hardware knows where to start on building it. CheriBSD on CHERI capability processor is also open-source and can run on a high-end FPGA. So, there's that for use or copying in a Gaisler modification.

How can you trust the FPGA? Or the very closed-source bitstream generator necessary to compile the VHDL/Verilog code?

Assuming you want to manufacture secure processors from these designs, how can you trust the chip fab?

I'm genuinely interested, as I'm not aware of any research into protection from these issues.
If I correctly understood the info presented is based on what 22 unverified internet users decided to put in the edit boxes of PayScale.com.
BTW "when you are good at something, never do it for free". So I don't ask for T-shirt, only work for paid work.
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To be honest, should it really take months to produce and ship that one car through europe? Surely assembly lines are faster than that.
I’m a game programmer working on mobile games for iOS and Android, using mostly Unity game engine.

As a side project I’m also making a game (how surprising!), but I can’t share any details in case someone steals the idea and makes even better game out of it ;)
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I wonder if the IBM Method JIT CRuby replacement will get any concurrency features.
It's because there's at least one person on-board the company who understands the technical underpinnings, and has incentives that (usually) align with shareholders -- versus consultants whose bottom-line is never entirely dependent on the success of your company.
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Let's not pretend software developers are paid exceptionally well in the Netherlands. Somehow it's a skill that's way undervalued here, compared to e.g. middle-management. That said, a senior dev with an academic background (ie: if you can do more than just programming but also have the background to acquire and use complex domain-specific knowledge) you can easily make over $6000 gross a month. The cost of hiring you will be almost double that for the employer.

You're not going to make that kind of money by working projects for a consultancy firm though, the margins they are making on your skills are ridiculous.
How is this different to http://www.ncrunch.net/ which runs tests as you type, so you know if tests are passing before you even save the file!

Edit: Well that looks creepy :) I don't know ragebol and apart from being a happy user I don't have a relationship with the nCrunch dude!
I assume that it is because of the attempt to take the discussion offline when the information is probably relevant to the discussion and therefore relevant to multiple readers. Must discussion forums frown upon that.
> thinly-veiled amusement-park ride that the Hobbit movie ended up turning into under Jackson's tutelage.

If it were only that... let's not forget the major changes in the story and the reintroduction of LOTR characters who had nothing to do with the story in the first place. It does not make any sense at all if you have ever read the book.

At least the LOTR movies kind of followed the story, but the Hobbit is just something else altogether.
You hit the nail on the head with LinkedIn. Those who actively browse it are not your target demographic.

Some of them may care about the finished product, but you'd better save it all for the technically-inclined people.
You don't legislate away their property at all. You legislate away their government protected monopoly, allowing for new competition and new business models.

What about the jobs? Is the argument that they don't serve any legitimate purpose, such that they'd go away if they're not forced to be kept around through legislation? Jobs aren't a good reason to favor stagnation over dynamism in an economy. Improvements in productivity have led to drastically more jobs over time, rather than less, the same would be true in this case. Plus, the existing dealers would continue to have a leg up on sales and distribution, it would take a long time to build out any competing systems.
I thought about it before getting to the bottom... So it made sense.
I first learned FORTRAN in high school, where we used optical sense cards to create code. The teacher took them each night to the board office and brought back our output for the next class. If you had ten days for an assignment, you had ten chances to compile/run. The next year the school got a Commodore PET and I had a chance to use that.

I still code - and have just finished converting some FORTRAN astrophysics simulation code from 1974 into C# for a Unity project.
> Judging by the observations they don't even have a corrective action (CAPA) process. That's a huge red flag.

Well if they want to hire folks out there there's a huge amount of capable people ready to be poached from other companies.
The argument doesn't make sense. He brings up a lot of the challenges of outsourcing, and makes offhand remarks about good ways to address them. But if his argument were true, no contractor would "work".

The entire contracting industry fits into his description of "outsourcers". Lots of contractors work effectively for their clients. As a person in ANY business, if you believe that your only incentives are to get your clients to pay more, more often, then you will fail. Fucking your customers will wreck your business in any market. The customer has to feel like they got some value out of the deal.

The real incentive for a contractor is to provide the best (perceived) quality of product, for the highest competitive price possible. Even the bottom-price bargain barrel shops know this. They're just bad at it.
For just running tests, I found http://www.ncrunch.net/ to be very handy.
It puts a green/red/black dot before each line of code to indicate how it does in your unittests.
My biggest gripe with them is that lots of people can write code that gets the job done, but people who write maintainable code are much rarer.
In Germany when you order a car at a car dealer you usually have to wait several weeks or months until you get your car. Obviously depending on the backlog in the factory.
> Negotiate with the manufacturers to handle direct-to-consumer sales for them.

As in, found a startup and then negotiate with Ford, GM, Toyota, Volkswagen etc about a deal that's guaranteed to piss off the existing dealer networks that make ~100% of their revenue and will view this as an existential threat? Good luck with that!

Above all, this seems to assume car companies are stupid. Ford, GM & co would sell their grandmothers to get an extra 6% margin on their cars, the reason they're not selling directly already (in the US) because they figure it's not worth the risk -- and if they do decide to try, they're certainly not going to give the opportunity to a random startup trying to form a new monopsony that would leave them even worse off than before.
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> Skype: They used a team of developers in Estonia to help them build out their business.

I don't know if you can call this outsourcing. They were a few guys who worked together, there wasn't really a difference in power between them.
Brilliant!

>Related: 13 people trying to figure out how old a globe is on Quora https://www.quora.com/How-old-can-this-globe-be
> What do the tweakers do that the entire Mercedes crew couldn't?

Openly flout emissions standards.
mostly but not completely. After your year you have to downgrade to the version as it was when you originally bought. Removing bug fixes and new features you have got used to over your year of use.

Mental.
The same search tells me a Java dev in Ukraine earns more than his peer in France.

http://www.payscale.com/research/UA/Job=Senior_Java_Develope...
Inbetweening (we call it phasing in Europe) is not repetitive work in a sense of factory work. It's a line of work that requires extreme focus and is repetitive. It's a rough job that taxes your mind, wrists, and back. You have to have a special mindset if you're going to work that for a career. Everybody starts at that step, but not everyone goes further.
A Ukrainian developer told me that working for a large outsourcing shop looked better in the eyes of her friends and family than being a freelancer. She said being a freelancer, was, in her opinion, seen as a sign you couldn't get work with a big consulting firm.

She had just become a freelancer, despite her perceived drop in status.
> You will need the Flash plug-in to view [the products page].

How Old Is Your Website? :-)

(And the list is missing South Sudan, which gained independence 4 years ago…)
In Sweden where I live popular configurations fitting specific price brackets are kept in stock.

Custom configurations on the other hand can take weeks or months to get from the factory to Sweden. Those who know what they want pre-order a car so that it's delivered when they want to replace their current car, which is usually every 3 years.

I bet Dell still keeps an inventory, it's just a vastly reduced one.
As well as the other answers, when I charge at home the electricity comes from my solar panels.

Now, we can argue about the polluting nature of creating the panels - but I can turn a day's worth of sunshine into 80 miles of travel with no at-source pollution.
"His job is to take all of the digital character layout scenes, along with the timing and everything [else], and he prints them out on paper and those are shipped to [South] Korea."

Why? Don't they have printers in South Korea?
Does YCombinator have someone to advise on basic security issues like this?
If I understood the ruling correctly, all exemptions are technically only binding for three years, after which they have to be renewed. So in the (hopefully) hypothetical case that the librarian would not renew the excemption for archives, would that make all exibits stored on grounds of the exemption suddenly illegal? If yes, this doesn't seem like a very practical solution to me.
There is not much to say. Back in the "old days", you had article with text and images (related to the article, e.g. images/1.jpg, images/2.jpg) and somewhere in the middle of article was banners/123.jpg, but it could easily be images/3.jpg. This was mostly good because both parties (content provider and content consumer) both pay the same price for the bandwidth. This keep ads on the sane levels because too much add would be costly for provider so they keep them moderate.

Then something changed and ads was outsourced to third parties, so instead of images/3.jpg you would have link to external domain, e.g. http://ads.com/3.jpg. Because this way content provider no longer pay for ad bandwidth (it is hosted on other server) they could literally add infinite amount of ads. 8MB jpeg? no problem 3MB javascript? no problem, 4MB animated gif? no problem. This will chew through your data plan very fast so users started blocking ads, the simplest way is block content delivery networks of all ad companies.

Next logical step (for displaying ads) is to move them back to the original domain of content provider. Then you cannot tell which of then images/1.jpg, images/2.jpg or images/3.jpg is ad, unless some human will mark it. This is difficult, prone to errors and abuse and would make ad blockers gigantic.
But i agree with just one thing: don't outsource management. If you hire some developers from an outsourcing shop in outstaffing mode, or just hire them individually on Upwork, that's fine. But don't let the agency do the management. If you can't do the management yourself you can't succeed.
I'm playing through the game again using this.

It's still in beta but I haven't run into any issues. I'm currently on level 7 I remember right.
I feel the same as you. Refile was first very exciting for me, because if you wanted to change a version, you don't have to reprocess them, you only have to change the URL in the HTML. But that means that if you have a page with lot of these images, it would be super slow and can really easily DoS your server. And CDNs also cache the images for like 4 hours, which is terrible. I realized it's much better to just have the thumbnails done immediately.

Yes, I was inspired by CarrierWave's uploaders, the goal of Shrine is to have all of the uploading logic in the uploader. And it even allows you too hook up to ".included" of the model that receives the attachment methods, from inside the uploader (http://shrinerb.com/rdoc/classes/Shrine/Plugins/Included.htm...).