The only reason to hire the majority of that IT "talent" was the cheaper rates, not some outstanding brilliant achievments or skills. I think the guy is lobbying the interests of those bodyshops, that make tons of money selling developers from other countries. Also how many H1B holders actually get "postgraduate US education"? Not so many, I am afraid.

Do you think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Goldman Sachs go out of their way to hire foreigners just because they are cheaper?

Why wouldn't they? For a profit-seeking entity, lower costs seems like a good reason to me.

Yes,

Instead of hiring a junior/mid-level American expert as an assistant, for example, they get a highly qualified foreign expert at the same price.

I think in a typical firm very few people would refuse to give their passwords... most of us would give it with a "sure, no problems, you are welcome" smile :)

Mate, "liberal arts" is not a subject, trust me, you do have liberal arts in India :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts

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I second that.

Never do unknown amount of work for a fixed amount of money. Forget about "good guys" and "friends". You either charge them per hour or (if fixed job) control the contract with detailed requirements. You deliver that - you get paid. Charge per milestone. Split new features/changed requirements and your bugs. Charge more for new features. Always emphasize the fact it is not a bug, even if you are willing to do it for free. NEVER do life-time free maintenance of the project - set and meet the deadlines.

ALWAYS CHARGE.

People who can not organize and manage the process of development properly are deserved to be charged to the maximum extent.

Charge, charge, charge!

The article is NOT accurate. I am a happy owner of Dell laptop with Vista - and the guy insulted those two things :)

Seriously, I think its a matter of personal preferences.I am using my dell/vista 10-14 hours a day, restart maybe once a week/fortnight and have problems once in a while,

But hey, I am a developer myself, I know the process of software development too well to complain about anything sofware/hardware related. It's just the way it is.

And I think it's a bit lame to expect something that guarantees you flowless experience whatever you do. A computer is a bit more complex than a calculator. It gives you more power and more freedom and eventually more ways to break things.

1. FAR manager (this one tops them all, can do also SSH/FTP stuff, text editing, archiving etc)

2. Notepad++

3. Firefox

4. skype

5. eclipse

6. the bat

7. adobe photoshop

Nowadays a good developer on a contract can earn more than his full-time manager. And less stress, and less responsibilities, and also different projects and different people. Yes, some corps do not treat contractors well, so, well - look for another contract.

Management? Only for really good money and interesting project with people I love to work with.

"I'm back to hacking in C, since it's the still only way to ship portable programs."

Scrolled to the bottom, found that line and thought the article doesn't worth my time :)

Yes, smells bs, thats what the comment says:

This article is a HOAX, the messenger, Frank Engelsman is a NON existing Dutch Private Investigator from a NON existing company called 'Ultrascan' in Amsterdam, this company is NOT registired at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. Mr Engelsman uses the Internet for his investigations.

Thanks a lot for the info, I can't believe I just bought two applications I always wanted and never could afford for 10 bucks!